Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [is] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) .
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3 However , each editing process that is undertaken is demanding to the system .
4 Many researchers ( e.g. Sharpe 1976 ; Deem 1978 ) have argued that the occupational segregation of men and women which takes place after education is completed is related to the subject segregation which takes place at school .
5 In the USSR everything that is permitted is prohibited .
6 In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle .
7 In the first the record that is added is inserted into its correct position in the file , and the record at the end of the track to which it was added drops off into overflow .
8 What behaviour is expected is determined by the job , but we can generalize .
9 But ‘ what is forbidden is to question the correctness of a decision or determination which it was within the area of their jurisdiction to make . ’
10 Orders are already pouring in for the American-made scarves and bandanas that heat up when a liquid-filled pad is microwaved is placed into a pouch .
11 The " something " which is said is called by Guillaume an " import of meaning " ( 1984 : 120 – 2 ) and corresponds on the linguistic level to the lexeme or non-grammatical part of the word 's meaning .
12 If what is said is contradicted by what is seen — that is when the words do not ‘ match ’ the facial expression — then , to the astute observer , it is the words which will be disregarded , and what is seen will a believed .
13 When giving orders , much of the impact of What is said is derived from the stage management of the Whole procedure .
14 When collecting figures for any statistical analysis it is clearly very important that the way in which the data is collected is planned with the analysis in mind .
15 The site of Castlerigg stone circle in the Lake District is an example , where the plateau on which it is sited is surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks .
16 What is written is written , and no might-have-beens enter into it . "
17 Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess .
18 As the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano observes : ‘ If what is written is read seriously and to some extent changes or nourishes the consciousness of the reader , a writer has justified his or her role in the process of change : with neither arrogance nor false humility , but with the recognition of being a small part of something vast ’ .
19 Filetab is trying to prevent a firm called Ace Microsystems from selling a computer program on the grounds that the language in which it is written is owned by Filetab .
20 COUNCIL TAX is the son of Poll Tax and even before it is levied is growing up as monstrous as its father .
21 The ‘ catch ’ is that , even though the time when something is done is decided by the volunteer , he has no cues from clocks , television , or other humans as to what the time really is .
22 ( The actual way in which this calculation is done is illustrated later in this chapter . )
23 At this the lowest level , what is done is done in a compliant way .
24 What is done is to plot the observed magnitude against time .
25 ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’
26 One way this is done is to project the internal situation into current real situations when they symbolise the internal situation .
27 Because the six month period that you get which is is reflected is coming th through now ,
28 A typical instance where a solicitor is needed is renewing the lease at the end of the tenancy .
29 In the descriptive sense all that is needed is to take a series array of Voigt-Kelvin models or a parallel array of Maxwell models , writing for the behaviour of the latter under a constant strain for the former under creep conditions .
30 Beware of other people 's false expectations that ‘ all that is needed is lipreading . ’
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