Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process of policy-shaping is held to be legitimate because the local state has to react to popular pressures in devising its welfare systems . |
| 2 | To achieve something close to a perfect finish , a little forethought and measurement are essential before the first length of wallcovering is cut to length . |
| 3 | The degree of checking is determined by the section engineer responsible for the project . |
| 4 | Mr Poynor noted that a ‘ naturalistic/realistic ’ style of acting is required for this play and that it is interesting for actors to ‘ play against character . ’ |
| 5 | The Speaker is nominally chairman of each of them but the actual work of chairing is undertaken by deputy chairmen , who are superior court judges . |
| 6 | The degree of scattering is affected by the distance traversed through the atmosphere , called the atmospheric path length . |
| 7 | The angular attenuation of scattering is measured by the particle scattering factor which is simply the ratio of the scattering intensity to the intensity in the absence of interference , measured at the same angle θ . |
| 8 | A spot of bonking is expected of one when one takes a bride , is n't it , Johnny ? |
| 9 | A great deal of interviewing is done by approaching people in the street or by knocking on people 's doors . |
| 10 | This bit of juggling is introduced into the process because you will necessarily be working blind — during the recording of the insert , the camcorder viewfinder will be displaying , not a playback of the original shot , but the material which is displacing it . |
| 11 | The language syllabus of Streamline is based on the carefully controlled introduction of new structures and vocabulary . |
| 12 | In more than 80% of cases the site of bleeding is found within 6 cm of the gastro-oesophageal junction , particularly along the lesser curvature . |
| 13 | As one gains in skill the performance of the task of riding is released to the periphery of awareness . |
| 14 | Thus the price of giving is reduced for tax payers , especially higher-rate tax payers . |
| 15 | Nicholas Reeves says that three years of collecting is reflected in the exhibition , ( among the difficulties of acquiring top quality pieces is the fact that it is currently illegal to export antiquities from Egypt ) . |
| 16 | This is not an exact method as the rate of fading is determined by the length of time a rug has been exposed to the light and by the intensity of the light source . |
| 17 | The rate of roaring is increased by each individual as the contest proceeds until one individual gives up . |
| 18 | Language and indeed behaviour generally is necessarily ordered and is represented internally as strategies , schemata are not inherently sequential and thinking can thus be concerned with context before the constraint of achieving is introduced in order to generate an output . |
| 19 | In such circumstances , the multiplier effect on equilibrium of a fiscal policy of changing is given by |
| 20 | Often this sort of breathing is accompanied by raising the shoulders and pushing forward the front part of the chest ; it does not take in much air or provide the opportunity to have much control over it . |
| 21 | Since exactly the same number of sugar-phosphate bond angles are ordered in forming all ten combinations of base pair from random coil single strands , we conclude that the large difference in the entropy of stacking is derived from the amount of residual torsional motion in the connecting bonds ( which allows relative motion between the bases ) . |
| 22 | Through the figure of the drop of ink , at once miraculous and homely , the act of telling is transformed into a gesture of showing . |
| 23 | The goal of the day hospital is to ensure that the patient 's level of functioning is maintained at as high a level as possible , while levels of anxiety in both patient and carer are decreased , levels of confidence being likewise increased . |
| 24 | Proteins acting in this way are called ‘ enzymes ’ ; their method of working is described on p. 61 . |
| 25 | A further difference arising from naming is indicated by entitling the mid-seventeenth century the Civil War period . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , as AMEC was at pains to point out yesterday , for the next couple of years making money from housebuilding is set to be a struggle . |
| 27 | The physical child response to stroking is extended to the psychological equivalent in terms of praise and reward . |
| 28 | That the choleretic response to feeding is abolished by vagotomy suggests that this secretory event may possibly be mediated by a long vago-vagal reflex ( similar to the increased production of gastric acid secondary to gastric distension ) , or that it may be a true cephalic phase event . |
| 29 | If the choleretic response to feeding is mediated by a vago-bagal reflex , then it is likely that it relays in the solitary tract nucleus in the brainstem , which is the first relay nucleus for all afferent bisceral sensation . |
| 30 | This provision stems logically from the new section 6 , on which I commented earlier , and the necessary adaptation of the reference to appropriating is made by inserting a reference to obtaining property . |