Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Note that at the back of the head an allowance of approx. ½in has been left , and this is bevelled with a smoothing plane so that when viewed from above the head will lie at an angle to the neck . |
| 32 | The statement that he overestimated the importance of sex in human psychology is refuted by an examination of his work and opinions . |
| 33 | Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain . |
| 34 | The random number generator is initialised by RUN ( or CHAIN ) . |
| 35 | It 's now available in colours , the first time it 's altered in 102 years . |
| 36 | One such sceptic , a certain Montgomery , is likened to a prickly housemaid . |
| 37 | In the New Testament , God is likened to a father , a shepherd and the owner of a vineyard ( among other images , including some found in the Old Testament ) . |
| 38 | The setpoint mechanism is likened to a thermostat . |
| 39 | Racism is likened to a poison which children take in , if not from their mother 's breast , then at least from its mechanical substitutes . |
| 40 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 41 | For example , he is likened to a thief , but he actually wants to become a king , and speaks as if he were a Prince . |
| 42 | It is likened to a heaven full of stars , yet better than such because his wounds are efficacious by day as well as by night , and not only can not be obscured by clouds but positively drive away clouds of sin ; a net full of holes in which the meditator prays to be drawn to the bank of death ; a dovecote full of holes of refuge and a honeycomb full of cells of sweet honey ; a book written in red ink — matter for the meditator 's attention at " matyns , pryme , houris , euesong & complin " ; a meadow full of healing and delightful flowers and herbs ( 96 – 7 ) . |
| 43 | If God is likened to a king , as in Islam especially , it indicates that God is in control , that we can trust God , and so forth . |
| 44 | In the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible , which is an important part of the sacred literature of all three religions , God is likened for instance to a judge , a king , a midwife and a mother eagle . |
| 45 | The change of allegiance on the part of individual scientists from one paradigm to an incompatible alternative is likened by Kuhn to a ‘ gestalt switch ’ or a ‘ religious conversion ’ . |
| 46 | Aethis is assassinated by his own chancellor , a secret follower of Slaanesh . |
| 47 | Progressive Archbishop Romero is assassinated by right-wing forces . |
| 48 | A trade unionism that is paralysed by an obsession with parliamentary lobbying and television training for general secretaries can scarcely expect to win the wholehearted support even of its own members , let alone women engaged in domestic labour , part-time workers or the unemployed . |
| 49 | Legrand claims the federation is paralysed by " immobility " and " pusillanimity " . |
| 50 | The most famous head that gets the cover treatment is ex-Band frontman turned yup rock jock , Robbie Robertson — his ‘ Makes No Difference ’ is the most commercial track on the mini-album and is mooted as a single . |
| 51 | The most famous head that gets the cover treatment is ex-Band frontman turned yup rock jock , Robbie Robertson — his ‘ Makes No Difference ’ is the most commercial track on the mini-album and is mooted as a single . |
| 52 | It 's no great surprise that a lecture on Othello is mooted in the Possessed notebooks , and that ‘ O , Iago , the pity of it ’ gets quoted in Russian . |
| 53 | The difference between the two figures is calculated for each region . |
| 54 | If variation in breeding success is calculated for stags of above a year old ( the age of sexual maturity ) , it greatly exceeds more realistic measures of variation in breeding success such as variation in seasonal success within cohorts or lifetime success ( see Table 23.3 ) . |
| 55 | This is because the housing element within the grant is calculated for the duration of the academic year ( continuous from beginning of autumn term until the end of the academic year ) . |
| 56 | It is calculated for two cases : shear deformation and uniaxial stretching and compression . |
| 57 | Viscosity varies greatly with temperature and the table of timings provided is calculated for analysis at the standardized temperature of 20°C . |
| 58 | If the index is calculated to be 125 in 1985 , say , this simply means that the average price of the goods included in the calculation has risen by 25 per cent during the period 1980–85 . |
| 59 | The fusion rate in D 2 O is calculated to be at an unmeasurably slow rate of 10 -65 per pair per second at room temperature . |
| 60 | The isotropic luminosity of individual high-velocity components is calculated to be L=0.1–6L and ; , which is comparable to the total luminosity of the most powerful maser source in our Galaxy , W49N , and the total luminosities of redshifted and blueshifted features are and , respectively . |