Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [conj] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When such demands become part of a debate concerning black issues , it is marginalized and perceived as a threat to harmony and integration . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If Uppark is stabilised and retained as a ruin , as it should be , the basic structure can be seen as an education itself . |
| 9 | It follows from the foregoing that a condition of the type at issue in the main proceedings , which stipulates that where a vessel is owned or chartered by natural persons they must be of a particular nationality , and where it is owned or chartered by a company the shareholders and directors must be of that nationality , is contrary to article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 10 | Often this is modified or informed by a tilt of the head affecting the character of the whole figure . |
| 11 | In Finland the selling of all alcoholicbeverages is organised and controlled by a single institution , The Finnish State Alcohol Company ( Alko Ltd ) . |
| 12 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
| 13 | A counter is instituted and blocked by a downward palm technique . |
| 14 | American cinemas show films celebrating rape , which can be judged obscene only if the act is depicted or described in a ‘ patently offensive way ’ . |
| 15 | Emma-Hoo is depicted as riding on a water-buffalo and parading past lines of men to pass judgement upon them , reflecting their sentence back to them by means of a giant bronze mirror on his breast . |
| 16 | In the quiet scene every figure , with the exception of the chariot-horses , is designed and carved as a separate statue . |
| 17 | Regarding the latter context , it has been shown that when a word is preceded or accompanied by a ’ semantically ’ related word , recognition of that word is facilitated with respect to unrelated controls . |
| 18 | I sometimes wonder what happens to the rest of the shoal when the leader is caught and retained in a keepnet . |
| 19 | It is shaped and nurtured in a religious community , and its expression grows and develops through history . |
| 20 | When voice or data equipment is moved or changed in a building or campus site , this reduces costs . |
| 21 | When an animal is shot or caught in a snare , or chased and caught , it has a great deal of suffering . |
| 22 | If the report is seen and used as a reminder note of discussions that took place during the consultation meeting rather than a stand alone document then the task of report writing becomes significantly easier . |
| 23 | On the other hand if marketing is seen and pursued as a facet of good communications and as a faster and better response to needs then everyone can be a winner . |
| 24 | This is seen as threatening in a country where repression and war are every day facts of life and their work is often dangerous . |
| 25 | In each case , whether represented as a guess or as a known fact , the notion is seen as conditioned by a mental process or state which allows one to predicate it and so is represented as a consequence thereof by means of the to infinitive . |
| 26 | The body is fingerprinted and buried in a pauper 's grave on Hart Island . |
| 27 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 28 | In the comedies of Aristophanes a hero is bothered and bludgeoned by a succession of intruders and enemies , much like the heroes of Otherwise Engaged , Dear Daddy or The Sea , the Sea . |
| 29 | In the crudest analyses , working-class racism is interpreted as composed of a set of falsehoods perpetrated by one , or a combination , of the following agencies : capital , the ruling class , the mass media , and the state . |
| 30 | " Petticoat government " and paternalism must be replaced by a supportive approach wherein each staff member is valued and trusted as a responsible adult . |