Example sentences of "is [verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Jack Brabham says he 's never been so excited about a new motor car and the challenge is to go and take on the best |
| 2 | The witness of an insult , or the victim of it , will feel that his dignity is impugned and regarded as a matter for contempt by the person whose conduct he witnesses . |
| 3 | The average national property value is calculated and assigned to the appropriate band , i.e. band D in this case . |
| 4 | For extra reliability , parity information is calculated and distributed in the array 's disk striping process , meaning that if one drive or cartridge fails , parity information stored elsewhere will allow the lost data to be recovered . |
| 5 | This favourable treatment is explained and justified on the basis that the corporators are required to perform public functions in addition to serving their own private interests . |
| 6 | In fact as we shall see , witchcraft ( or sorcery ) is generally invoked to explain why misfortunes befall particular victims , whereas how they occur is explained and understood in the prosaic matter-of-fact fashion we think of as being empirically true . |
| 7 | Each category is explained and analysed within the context of marketing and business planning , and their application is illustrated by a variety of examples . |
| 8 | It is checked and passed to the Registry who , together with the data preparation service , enter and verify approximately 10,000 individual marks and grades within a 36-hour period each term . |
| 9 | When such demands become part of a debate concerning black issues , it is marginalized and perceived as a threat to harmony and integration . |
| 10 | The consultant psychiatrist and a team of community nurses from the health service are actively involved in supporting and visiting the scheme , and the home is registered and inspected by the local authority who also provide a social worker to provide links with other local services . |
| 11 | ( 5 ) No indemnity shall be payable under this Act in any of the following cases : — ( a ) where the applicant or a person from whom he derives title ( otherwise than under a disposition for valuable consideration which is registered or protected on the register ) has caused or substantially contributed to the loss by fraud or lack of proper care ; … ( 6 ) Where an indemnity is paid in respect of the loss of an estate or interest in or charge on land the amount so paid shall not exceed — ( a ) Where the register is not rectified , the value of the estate , interest or charge at the time when the error or omission which caused the loss was made ; ( b ) Where the register is rectified , the value ( if there had been no rectification ) of the estate , interest or charge , immediately before the time of rectification . |
| 12 | The handle is squared and flattened at the end which could mean that it was used as a pestle for grinding . |
| 13 | a fiery fellow ( the salamander was popularly supposed to be able to live in fire ) ; also , a circular iron plate which is heated and placed over a pudding or other dish to brown it ( OED ) . |
| 14 | The second principle used in tone-unit boundary identification is a rhythmical one : it is claimed that within the tone-unit , speech has a regular rhythm , but that rhythm is broken or interrupted at the tone-unit boundary . |
| 15 | The difference between the monotonous beat of pop music and the rhythmical architecture of a great symphony is precisely that in classical music the primitive reaction is delayed and denied for a more varied satisfaction . |
| 16 | Lifetimes of commitment explores the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime . |
| 17 | Those who take the view that capitalism operates to favour those with capital at the expense of those who merely have their labour to sell tend to believe that when new technology is developed and applied in a basically capitalist society the result is likely to be that jobs are degraded and the quality of working life of those in employment suffers . |
| 18 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 19 | At a divergent boundary , such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , new crust is formed and attached to the upper part of adjoining lithospheric plates while new upper mantle is accreted to the lower part . |
| 20 | of Permutit explains how hard water is formed and elaborates upon the problems associated with hard water , tracing the history of water softening , and giving advice on the points to consider when buying a water softner . |
| 21 | The zinc is formed whilst cooling along the line from A to E. To the right of E at temperatures equal to or lower than 270°C the solid consists of a mixture of cadmium and the eutectic mixture . |
| 22 | The mission of Teesside TEC is to promote and contribute to the economic growth of Teesside and it aims to do this by fostering individual initiative , community teamwork , business development and quality training . |
| 23 | The allowance can not normally be paid for the first time after pension age because it is regarded as overlapping with the retirement pension . |
| 24 | With regard to the settlement , IHTA 1984 , s48(4) provides that the trust would be regarded as holding excluded property provided the life tenant is regarded as entitled to a qualifying interest in possession . |
| 25 | If collective bargaining of this kind is to continue and improve for the benefit of both , it is essential that employees ' organisation should be fully representative . |
| 26 | This well stirred is then taken all as one dose or only half is taken if ‘ special care is necessary ’ The stock bottle is shaken as suggested in the method above . |
| 27 | 8 ( 1 ) No right of action to recover land shall be treated as accruing unless the land is in the possession of some person in whose favour the period of limitation can run ( referred to below in this paragraph as " adverse possession " ) ; and where under the preceding provisions … any such right of action is treated as accruing on a certain date and no person is in adverse possession on that date , the right of action shall not be treated as accruing unless and until adverse possession is taken of the land . |
| 28 | For corporation tax purposes , a dividend is treated as paid on the date when it becomes due and payable ( s 834(1) , Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 ) . |
| 29 | The amount of the pension is not related actuarial to the sums which each recipient has actually paid in contribution ; but the right to receive it is treated as flowing from the possession of a contribution record , and indeed the pension rates are represented as related to the contribution rates , assuming contribution over a full working life . |
| 30 | Under such circumstances one can predict the final outcome with rather more confidence , for a child in this situation is sustained and encouraged in the response he originally adopted . |