Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The great white-fronted , red-roofed castle they built to defend their lands is mostly preserved . |
| 32 | Unfortunately , the majority of energy used in homes is for space heating ( heating the rooms and the people ) and this is mostly needed in the winter when there is not sufficient sunshine in this country for solar energy to be feasible . |
| 33 | Simply put , during waking consciousness there is a demand by the alert cortex for perceptual information from the senses , and the senses provide an abundance , which is mostly disregarded as only topically relevant information is attended to . |
| 34 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 35 | The coal used in the district is mostly supplied from North Wales , and to some extent , from North Staffordshire and Lancashire , and is delivered by the Cambrian Company at Montgomery , from whence ( as in the case of lime ) it is carted to its destination . |
| 36 | Cable which has a large reserve of strength is mostly used so that a weak-link device of some kind safeguards the structure on a fast launch in gusty conditions . |
| 37 | At present , admittedly , triticale is mostly used for animal feed . |
| 38 | The ‘ primary rate ’ ISDN provides a block of a minimum of 30 lines , and is mostly used by large firms which connect it to a telephone switchboard . |
| 39 | In France , from where the machines originate , double knitting is mostly used for lace . |
| 40 | It is mostly used when A is a " sparse " matrix , with elements dominated by the diagonal ; B-1 is then a reasonable approximation to R. If this is not the case , the method may not converge , or do so very slowly . |
| 41 | A basic sense of wonder ( a ) to foster their capacity for imagination which can give rise to vision , realizing that reality can be greater and other than it often seems — so that they appreciate that a flat two-dimensional approach to life is not the only option available ; ( b ) to understand that religious faith expresses itself in a variety of forms , many of which are close to the arts , and to realize also that religious language is mostly used in symbolic or metaphorical ways ; ( c ) to appreciate the emotional power of religious commitment and how this can be beneficial or harmful . |
| 42 | With reference to your article on the inconsistencies in the Serpell report ( This Week , 27 January , p 220 ) the town of Keith is mostly surrounded by farmland and is certainly not in the middle of a peat bog ( Scottish or otherwise ) . |
| 43 | Sub-littoral is mostly known as the submerged seas over the Continental Shelf ( see diagram ) . |
| 44 | This condition is mostly dealt with in the community , which often means that it is not dealt with at all . |
| 45 | The change is strikingly illustrated by the number of surviving political bonds . |
| 46 | The phase of confusion is strikingly illustrated in some metopes from a large Doric temple at Selinus in Sicily ( fig. 23 ) . |
| 47 | His Great Tower or ‘ Yellow Tower ’ of Gwent is strikingly positioned outside the castle walls and its strength was almost sufficient to defy Cromwell 's demolition engineers . |
| 48 | The operation of the system is strikingly instanced in the secret visit to London of James Butler , Marquess ( later Duke ) of Ormonde [ q.v. ] , |
| 49 | The occupational pathology of the eighteenth century is strikingly revealed in a litany which gives us grinder 's asthma , grinder 's rot , mason 's disease , miner 's phthisis , stone worker 's lung and potter 's rot , among others , for dust-caused lung diseases , as well as occupational bursitis in such varying forms as bricklayer 's elbow , weaver 's bottom , housemaid 's knee , hod carrier 's shoulder and tailor 's ankle . |
| 50 | Politically , Zande society is hierarchically organized , although their traditional empire with its constituent kingdoms and chief-doms has , naturally , been considerably affected by the imposition of European rule . |
| 51 | Each functional department is hierarchically organized , and is in the charge of a middle manager responsible for coordinating activities within his or her department . |
| 52 | Today 's version is irritatingly called by London Transport Underground a ‘ journey planner ’ . |
| 53 | Carmichael states that ‘ the plant is secretly secured in the bodices of the women and in the vests of the men , under the left armpit ’ , while Martin Martin gives an account of a man in Berneray , Harris , who wore it in the neck of his coat to prevent him from seeing visions , and ‘ he never saw any since he first carried that plant about with him ’ . |
| 54 | Bentham ( 1748–1832 ) is properly regarded as the founder of utilitarianism . |
| 55 | ( b ) Transfer of work A client is properly regarded as a client of the firm and not of the individual solicitor unless there is some personal , often family , connection between the two . |
| 56 | This reassurance is welcome , but it has to be said that the change gives less prominence to this requirement , and we shall need to watch with care that it is properly covered in the assessment arrangements . |
| 57 | If the cause or matter is properly characterised as criminal , it can not lose that character simply because at one stage it is carried forward by techniques which closely resemble those employed in civil matters , or which lead to relief often granted in civil matters , or which are available in civil or criminal matters alike ; any more than , having gained this new character by the employment of such techniques , it would revert to its former status when the deployment of the techniques came to an end . |
| 58 | Even though the statutory offence that replaces it reduces the public order characteristics of the offence and raises doubts as to whether affray is properly characterised as a public order offence at all , the likelihood is that it will continue to be employed in the prosecution of spontaneous brawls that result in no great injury in circumstances where the evidence of specific offences against the person is deficient . |
| 59 | Critics of these views on the other hand insist that the public interest is properly served only where companies pursue the traditional goal of profit maximisation . |
| 60 | Any document which is to be served by post is properly served If sent by ordinary prepaid post . |