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

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1 But whereas junket is made with great rapidity and is eaten almost as soon as the curd has set and without being drained , soft cheese takes longer to turn because less rennet must be used and the milk is barely heated , too much rennet and/or too much heat producing a leathery and acid curd .
2 The ‘ rodent-run ’ display takes an entirely different form and is employed especially where the local predatory species are always on the alert for small rats , mice , or lemmings .
3 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 .
4 Normally the program counter holds the store address of the next instruction to be executed , and is incremented appropriately as each instruction is executed .
5 A model represents something , usually in simplified form which highlights aspects which are of particular interest to the user , and is built so that it can be used for a specific purpose , for example , communication and testing .
6 The purpose is to improve work performance and is justified only if it has that result .
7 Furthermore , although the effect of a short preceding interval is greatest upon infants ( as well as upon fetal life , as discussed later ) and is reduced progressively as the child ages , poor spacing does have adverse health and mortality consequences for children in the 1–4 year age range , too .
8 ensuring that it is on the agenda of various organizational meetings and is discussed systematically and in depth .
9 This is manifest as a change in the specific volume due solely to an increase in the free volume and is shown schematically as the cross hatched area in figure 12.10 , where the broken line indicates the temperature dependence of V o .
10 Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude .
11 This is evident when the bird coils its neck ( D ) and is suggested even when the neck is straight ( B ) .
12 But the bulk of the chemical run-off binds to particulates and is concentrated rather than dispersed evenly through the water column .
13 He is small and not particularly bright , but yet is not patronized by people , and is taken seriously and listened to , unlike Lennie .
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