Example sentences of "is done [be] " in BNC.

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1 The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar .
2 The ‘ catch ’ is that , even though the time when something is done is decided by the volunteer , he has no cues from clocks , television , or other humans as to what the time really is .
3 How this is done is the process of pattern formation .
4 Nonetheless , exactly how this is done is a question which would take us beyond our immediate purpose .
5 One way this is done is to project the internal situation into current real situations when they symbolise the internal situation .
6 This process is controlled in the plant by substances called ‘ auxins ’ though how it is done is not at all clear .
7 ( Since then I have learned that the way it is done is in a body bag , which is much easier to handle , and then transferred to a coffin either in the pick-up vehicle or at the undertakers . )
8 What is done is to plot the observed magnitude against time .
9 ‘ What is done is only a beginning .
10 The extent to which children are thought about while housework is done is not only a reflection on housework 's fragmented quality ; it also signifies the basic difficulties which inhere in the combination of housewife and mother roles .
11 At this the lowest level , what is done is done in a compliant way .
12 How it is done is less important .
13 However , by section 10 of the Employment Act 1988 the immunity is withdrawn where the reason or one of the reasons for which the act is done is the fact or belief that the employer is employing non-union labour .
14 ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’
15 ( The actual way in which this calculation is done is illustrated later in this chapter . )
16 It is done is n't It ?
17 Erm , then after that we 'll have to look at the floor , but there 's no point in doing the floor until the decorating is done is there ? and the roof sorted out .
18 It is done is n't It ?
19 I think a lot of this is done is school as well .
20 Descriptions of how this is done are found in subsequent chapters .
21 Whatever the conditions of work are , they and the sort of work that is done are likely to be important variables affecting a person 's health , as we can now see .
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