Example sentences of "[vb pp] [is] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After Jericho the next city to be attacked is Ai , but here the Israelite troops are routed , and the people of God have a taste of the fear they have hitherto inspired in others . |
| 32 | The specific question that Aspect , together with jean Dalibard and Gérard Roger , has attacked is commonly known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox , the essence of which runs as follows . |
| 33 | The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is , as Napoleon once said , to counter-attack . |
| 34 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the right to life and to not being molested or attacked is fundamental . |
| 35 | In fact , so committed is RUC management to the principle of community policing that , in addition to specialist units , the new code of professional ethics specifies that it is the duty of all policemen and women to understand ‘ those particular community needs and problems which can cause concern and friction ’ , and be sensitive to ‘ the various public viewpoints , including historical and cultural backgrounds ’ . |
| 36 | So far as the type of crime committed is concerned throughout this century the great bulk of crime has always involved stealing of one kind or another . |
| 37 | The fact that a tort was committed is not sufficient . |
| 38 | Mining communities , the dock areas , Liverpool , all these people the only crime , the only crime they 've ever committed is to stand up for their rights . |
| 39 | As noted above , the supervision exercised by the member state in which the head office is located is exclusive , and will be shared only with the authorities in the member states where business is conducted . |
| 40 | Here what is transposed is not an affix at all , but just a syllable . |
| 41 | What is here stressed is that there is , and for many decades has consistently been , an active and relatively vociferous body of thought among librarians concerned with the active exploitation of the collection and the development of busy programmes of dissemination . |
| 42 | Part of this theoretical conflict arises from different understandings of the term ‘ bureaucracy ’ and whether the bureaucratic phenomenon being stressed is the expansion in the number of state agencies , the rationalization of decision-making and planning processes or the role of ‘ mandarins ’ in the policy process ( Diamant 1981 ) . |
| 43 | An interesting additional finding which is stressed is that it appears that such people are more rather than less likely to exhibit qualities of psychological balance and social responsibility . |
| 44 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 45 | The person is kept constant , because the problem being drilled is tense . |
| 46 | One metric by which collocations may be measured and grouped is to rate them on a scale of probability . |
| 47 | How they are cracked is almost the least interesting part of the walnut story . |
| 48 | The other main kind of socially deictic information that is often encoded is absolute rather than relational . |
| 49 | An example of how they were ideologically disconnected is the photo archive , which at Forster 's instruction was reorganised so that it was no longer under names of artists , obviously the most useful approach for museum curators . |
| 50 | Prior approval is not required ( except in SSSIs and National Parks in the UK , but then not from the Agriculture Department ) and in assessing schemes financially , MAFF has disregarded the fact that it has in the past contributed 50–70% of the scheme 's cost and that a high proportion of the profit to be earned is public money in the form of HLCAs . |
| 51 | The first £70 of interest earned is tax free . |
| 52 | Preferably targets should be set for individuals where the bonus earned is directly related to personal effort . |
| 53 | If an ex-pupil of an education authority bequeaths £10,000 on the condition that the money is invested and the interest earned is awarded as a prize to the best academic performance each year , the money can not in law be used to keep local taxes down . |
| 54 | The interest earned is normally paid at the end of the period to the respective parties in proportion to the amount of the retention received by them . |
| 55 | The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word . |
| 56 | The fact presupposed is that the Earth revolves on its axis so that places on the Earth have varying positions relative to the Sun . |
| 57 | The situation here presupposed is a sanctuary on fire , with perpetual ruins and heathen symbols . |
| 58 | The lowest level of language presupposed is intermediate for foreign learners and the highest aims at LCCIEB Third Level English for Commerce or English for Business . |
| 59 | That dispersal agents can travel further than the pollinators can be attracted is the explanation for the Ficus pubinervis population of Krakatau , where it is a canopy dominant , never setting ripe fruits . |
| 60 | The reason that sales have not boomed is that many customers have been disappointed at what robots do for them . |