Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) . |
| 2 | Screening for disorders in which the clinical course can not be altered is generally avoided : a programme of newborn screening for disorders like Duchenne muscular dystrophy could therefore create an ethical nightmare . |
| 3 | What is much less likely to be recognized is the importance of considering the interrelationship between these various initiatives , and certainly there is no sign as yet that such an evaluation is to take place . |
| 4 | Such phyla so persist because the only way they can be recognized is by reference to themselves . |
| 5 | As Task 55 suggests , another way in which discourse type can be recognized is by title . |
| 6 | What must be recognized is that in approaching different collections , different users at different periods in time will place varying requirements on a scheme , both in terms of the subjects that should be included and also in terms of the relationships that need to be shown . |
| 7 | The work to be undertaken is an integration of existing literature , and the development of explanations of how people understand what they read . |
| 8 | Some indication of the disparities to be explained is contained in Table 2.1 . |
| 9 | It is fundamental to causal explanation that comparisons are made between instances where the thing to be explained is present and instances where it is absent . |
| 10 | What needs to be explained is the origin of concentrations of wealth and security or of poverty and deprivation . |
| 11 | To say that effects are events which in a fundamental or standard sense can be explained is to say this : there is a possibility of our finding a proposition which fully answers the question of why they occurred . |
| 12 | The only other chapter to be explained is Chapter 5 " Language and the fictional world " . |
| 13 | Above all , what needs to be explained is how we distinguish between places in a phenomenological space and places in an objective space . |
| 14 | What needs to be explained is , what makes a meaningful use of such phrases possible in regard to ontological existents , and such explanation can not be provided without a detailed analysis of the problem of relations and of the concept of objectivity . |
| 15 | What has to be explained is why in the long-term stagnant economies the innovators do not turn their hands to productive capital accumulation ( or , for that matter , to the mobilisation of political forces , though this would not be Baran 's argument ) . |
| 16 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 17 | Another feature which has to be explained is the emplacement of massive granite intrusions of various ages which cover about 464 000 km 2 ( about 15 per cent ) of the surface of the range ; this probably represents a volume in excess of 2x106km 3 — the greatest mass of granite intrusions on Earth . |
| 18 | The first reference to John that can be traced is in Muirkirk Session records in which there is an entry — ‘ On 19th September , 1680 , it was delated to the Session that John Browne in Priesthill … ( and others ) … did not attend public ordinances . ’ |
| 19 | The final characteristic of the MPs that can be traced is religion , which shows as traditional a pattern as any . |
| 20 | Sometimes the only advice which can be given is , ‘ Learn to live with it . ’ |
| 21 | They differ from connotative terms like ‘ metal ’ — and to this extent ‘ are in the same condition as proper names ’ — in that whereas to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this thing a ‘ metal ’ ? ’ the answer , ‘ Things of which it is true that their oxide dissolved in water yields an alkaline solution ’ can be given ; to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ ? ’ the only answer that can be given is , ‘ Sensations to which I have given the name ‘ a sensation of white ’ ’ , an answer that does not ‘ unfold the signification of this class of names ’ . |
| 22 | And the assumption that they can be given is grounded on faith alone . |
| 23 | The submission which Mr. Lester makes on the other hand is not restricted by reference to the type of statute and indeed the only way in which it could be discovered whether help was to be given is by considering Hansard itself . |
| 24 | Curiously , perhaps the only advice to be given is : cultivate it in any field you like , in sport , in dancing , in singing , in telling dirty stories , and what you learn there will mysteriously invade any other field in which timing is important , unless some mental block prevents it . |
| 25 | Both need our help , but the help that they should be given is by their own Government , by the full implementation of resolutions 706 and 712 . |
| 26 | What must be realised is that teachers are rarely confident or certain enough to present themselves as ‘ progressives ’ or ‘ traditionalists ’ . |
| 27 | Similarly , if a threat that your contract will be broken is withdrawn , you are not entitled to leave subsequently and claim that you have been constructively dismissed . |
| 28 | An example of how these conditions might be broken is as follows . |
| 29 | Whether either of these claims can be sustained is doubtful . |
| 30 | The region where the new solar system is to be formed is fortified by the particulate remains of the supernova , now charged with cosmic and X-rays , and other energy waves . |