Example sentences of "[subord] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presented by former Caddie Master Jim Wetton in 1952 ( although is engraved Reading 1892 ) . |
| 2 | Promoted nationally by ministerial circular in 1955 , approved belts now cover nearly 11 per cent of England , an area similar to that devoted to urban development , and greater than is covered by either National Parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 3 | To manage a primary school , however , requires more awareness of the secondary school than is covered simply by passing on a record . |
| 4 | As the foregoing brief chronology has demonstrated , which Councils have been recognized as ecumenical is far more arbitrary than is acknowledged by the bland words of the current Code . |
| 5 | Much more consideration should be given to the environment than is done , for subject matter for pictures . |
| 6 | The word ‘ attested ’ is important : there was certainly more to-ing and fro-ing between Persia and Greek states than is recorded , especially on a change of ruler . |
| 7 | One sceptical commentator has reacted against the idea of there being something called ‘ Thatcherism ’ , by claiming that ‘ both opponents and supporters of the administration have created more of a pattern from disconnected events and policies than is warranted ’ . |
| 8 | The third way in which reliability might be breached is when , by judicious presentational techniques , a graph gives a more , or less , flattering view than is warranted by the underlying data . |
| 9 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 10 | ‘ The respondents were charged more than is warranted by the statute . |
| 11 | For an offence of such relative insignificance , the mental element is one of considerable complexity , and possibly places a greater onus on the prosecutor than is warranted . |
| 12 | As will he presently discussed , this enlarges the notion of obstruction further than is warranted . |
| 13 | [ Children ] … love to be treated as Rational Creatures sooner than is imagined … [ by which ] … |
| 14 | Given the paucity and poverty of the parish clergy , the Orders were more closely connected with everyday religious life than is imagined . |
| 15 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 16 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 17 | The early structuralists analyse relations between larger elements of meaning than is entertained in structural linguistics . |
| 18 | Given the rational nature of corporate crime , a higher level of fines than is imposed currently would probably deter some potential offenders . |
| 19 | A position which provides shelter from wind is almost more important than one which receives all the sun available ; wind is excessively drying and moisture is transpired from plants much more quickly than is realized , along with the essential oils , relatively " heavy " though they are . |
| 20 | Thus , as in the case of the USA , the size and complexity of the programmes , mixed successes , and the possibility that programmes have significantly reduced soil losses , or even the rate of decline rather than improved yields , point to the need for a longer and more sophisticated assessment than is given here . |
| 21 | ‘ In the life of any organisation , a centenary is a very considerable period of time , a good deal longer than is given to most of us . |
| 22 | If a profit is equivalent to surplus labour , then the capitalist , in keeping a larger share of the surplus than is given to the workers , is in effect ‘ stealing ’ from them , although what amounts to theft is written into an agreement and therefore not recognised as such . |
| 23 | Fuller information than is given by about the fluctuations at a single point can be obtained by measurements of , etc . |
| 24 | It treats with scepticism the timber industry 's claims that developing countries receive valuable foreign earnings from their timber exports , and points out that European governments receive far more in taxes from the sale of tropical timber products than is given to developing countries in aid for forestry projects . |
| 25 | She may actually have pressed her case with less vigour than is indicated above , since by mid-1968 it was abundantly clear that ‘ broad-based support ’ was not emerging and she may have suspended her earlier judgement in view of the success of the first march . |
| 26 | Thus , we would suggest that these second types of explanation for the differences in the rate of crime between men and women — that female crime exists to a much greater extent than is indicated by the statistics but is just less often recorded — can not explain the enormous sex differences in recorded rates of crime . |
| 27 | The question which had to be decided was ‘ whether we in England gain more through stimulating and rewarding the energy of the vigorous few by our voluntary system … than is lost through our failure to raise the general average of trained and disciplined efficiency by means of compulsory attendance for all ’ . |
| 28 | The main impact of blocking on the speed of skip-sequential processing is usually counter-productive , although it often achieves more in space-saving and rapid data transfer than is lost in increased block activity . |
| 29 | Sexual orientation towards the same or different gender is similarly something which a person learns rather than is born with . |
| 30 | On the one hand , tenure in top positions is normally limited through a more explicit contractual term of office than is employed in the private sector , and self-perpetuating oligarchies can not form . |