Example sentences of "[noun] is [vb pp] [conj] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other difference is that in the James-type account the mind is pictured as being related to the body in a certain manner . |
| 2 | Their intention is assessed as being to seize the oil installations at the earliest opportunity . |
| 3 | If the prime function of judicial review is seen as being to provide remedies against unlawful behaviour by government , then there should be only an absolutely minimal standing requirement such as ‘ taxpayer ’ or ‘ citizen ’ , or even no requirement at all ( ‘ any person ’ ) . |
| 4 | The sun is arisen and is breaking forth in splendour over the Christian Church ( which is founded on a rock ) dispersing the clouds of night and illuminating , with his new-born light the benighted land . |
| 5 | This gives the glider pilot more time to find out why his glider is semi-stalled and is sinking like a brick . |
| 6 | It ought to be able to offer more psychological and psychiatric help to the men who inhabit its strange , grey world ; more group work as well as individual help is acknowledged as being required by the staff , including the Probation Officer , who have a special responsibility for it , for these are men for whom the risk of reconviction is often very high . |
| 7 | Similarly , the notion of independence is stressed and is seen as ‘ essentially an attitude of mind characterized by integrity and an objective approach to work ’ ( para . |
| 8 | Problems arise where consent to an assignment or agreement to novation is sought but is refused . |
| 9 | The crisis is seen as being located very specifically within the prison system — it is not seen as a crisis of the whole penal system , or of the criminal justice system , let alone as a crisis of society as a whole . |
| 10 | This is because the repayment of tax is treated as being made in respect of the accounting period in which the surplus ACT arose ( as opposed to the periods in which it was offset ) ( s 825(4) ( a ) ) . |
| 11 | In many discussions of such issues consent is invoked and is understood to mean , roughly , the following : a person consents to an outcome if he performs an action which he believes to make that event more likely . |
| 12 | The electromagnetic attraction is pictured as being caused by the exchange of large numbers of virtual massless particles of spin 1 , called photons . |
| 13 | As a result of all this , opportunity-thinking is neglected and is left to individual entrepreneurs who have to answer to nobody but themselves . |
| 14 | An additional pane of glass 9.8 inches square is needed and is placed inside the tank to restrict the movement of the fish is necessary . |
| 15 | The play is taken from Plutarch 's Lives , in which Artemidorus is described as being born in the Isle of Guidos , and a Doctor of Rhetoric in the Greek tongue . |
| 16 | The current shortage of both the SE/30 and IIcx machines is quoted as being caused by a larger than expected take-up in the corporate market . |
| 17 | Language use among individual bilinguals is seen as being governed by these norms . |
| 18 | An opening example : If the price is advertised as being reduced and yet the house has never been on the market before , then it clearly can not have been reduced . |
| 19 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
| 20 | A false statement in a brochure is made when the brochure is published and is made again ( or alternatively , continued ) when read at a later stage in an uncorrected form by a member of the public . |
| 21 | In Section 6.1 the covariant derivative is introduced and is found to depend on entities called metric connections which quantify how local vectors change when they are transported through curved space–time . |
| 22 | In the quantum mechanical way of looking at the gravitational field , the force between two matter particles is pictured as being carried by a particle of spin 2 called the graviton . |
| 23 | Most of them fall into one ( or sometimes more ) of three categories in this respect : the disposition is seen as being inherited , acquired or invented . |
| 24 | The church is described as being built on ‘ three tiers ’ . |
| 25 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 26 | For it can happen that more cloth is produced than is used , and , as a result , also more machines , iron and coal than is necessary . |
| 27 | Beyond Dean Hill the principal line is interpreted as being deflected southeastwards , continuing as the underlying cause of the Portsdown structure , crossing the Sussex coast east of the Middleton well . |
| 28 | If any member of the council or any nominee of his is a member of a company or other body with which the contract is made or is proposed to be made , or is a partner , or is in the employment of a person with whom the contract is made , he has an indirect pecuniary interest which he should disclose . |
| 29 | Turnaround will be measured from the time a request is entered at the terminal to the time printing is logged as being completed by RSCS or the batch monitor . |
| 30 | Some change is perceived as being effected within the curriculum itself , however conceived , as in the case of the introduction of new subjects to the timetable . |