Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The type of household lived in is better considered a consequence of the stage they have reached in their life course than of their age per se ( Dale 1987 ) .
2 Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed .
3 Throughout the training , landing out is usually treated as such a serious misdemeanour that the inexperienced pilot is often influenced into trying desperately hard to get back if he either inadvertently drifts away from the site or gets lost during a local soaring flight .
4 That this order was sometimes carried out is now confirmed in The Secret Hunters by Anthony Kemp ( 1986 ) , where it is revealed that on Operation Loyton , to quote one example , captured S.A.S. soldiers were shot in the locality of Moussey , between Luneville and Strasbourg .
5 Frustrating action of this nature during the course of an offer or when a bid is expected imminently is severely curbed by the Code .
6 It is interesting to note that a Dellinger fade out is often followed by a magnetic field change around 48 hours later .
7 Most of what I say here is now agreed upon by other scientists working in this field , though this acceptance has come only fairly recently .
8 This means , of course , that the kind of contradiction I mentioned earlier is rarely discovered by the average fundamentalist because their one-dimensional way of tackling the text , a few verses at a time , will not lead them to make these uncomfortable and , I think , liberating discoveries .
9 However , since the UK economy has historically always been a highly open economy , it is especially true that what happens locally is strongly influenced by international changes .
10 The mathematical singularity arises because the set of coordinates imposed everywhere is best suited to regions of small curvature .
11 Despite the recent tremendous advances in synthetic fillings goose or duck down is still favoured by those after good performance , light weight and small pack size .
12 The sample definition of abandon shown earlier is now represented as :
13 The everyday idea that the pace of life is speeding up is commonly accepted as a feature of modernity .
14 I believe they can , but the capacity to do so is widely dispersed .
15 It is that wherever Parliament in an earlier statute has directed its attention to an individual case and has made provision for it unambiguously , there arises a presumption that if in a subsequent statute the legislature lays down a general principle , that general principle is not to be taken as meant to rip up what the legislature had before provided for individually , unless an intention to do so is specially declared .
16 The percentage of ‘ signals ’ that is detected correctly is generally measured .
17 And the cost of what you 're actually buying back , the service you 're buying back is basically governed by your age and your salary and the amount of time you want to buy back .
18 The learned reviewers — and their successors in all ages — might regard this poem as too trivial to bear much discussion , but the fact remains that Stepping Westward is much liked — if one may be allowed to use such a term in criticism .
19 Well okay , I need to say that when it 's long reports I have no problem , I mean since I 've lost Doreen and come under Tracey the quality and speed that I get typing back is much improved .
20 A converter for Inmos 's TCOFF run-time system interface to the COFF industry standard , which enables Occam modules and libraries to be linked in is also provided .
21 A converter for Inmos 's TCOFF run-time system interface to the COFF industry standard , which enables Occam modules and libraries to be linked in is also provided .
22 However , as Figure 6.41 shows , the space for these uses has been won often by removing cars to off-street parking areas , yet the opportunity for doing so is strictly limited by the availability of existing breaks in the facades of the buildings .
23 Any supporter doing so is now banned for life .
24 Since the assumptions we have made are the same as those in the simple Keynesian model and the Keynesian theory of money , the IS-LM model derived above is sometimes called the general Keynesian model .
25 The er coke is produced from the coal and the coal gas that 's driven off is then used for heating and powering things elsewhere in the steel works .
26 No organisation could expand as quickly as the new organisation that is to be set up is apparently expected to expand to take on all this work .
27 Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision .
28 The literature included here is only intended as a preliminary guide .
29 The distinction between the two issues posed above is neatly demonstrated by R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , ex p .
30 Any other magical means of entry the adventurers can dream up is likewise defeated by special enchantments placed on the structure of this room .
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