Example sentences of "is [verb] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If samples are scored for aneuploidy , a significant chromosome count identifying aneuploidy is regarded as consisting of minimally two mitotic cells with the same count . |
| 3 | Scaevola replies that , unless the testator is shown to have had other intentions , liability for maintenance is regarded as attaching to acquisition of the sum of money . |
| 4 | The allowance can not normally be paid for the first time after pension age because it is regarded as overlapping with the retirement pension . |
| 5 | There be a clear place for each simple subject , which is regarded as falling within one of the major disciplines in the scheme . |
| 6 | This latter feature has two distinct negative qualities : first , that the patient must not be someone categorized as chronically mentally unfit , and second , that he must not be someone who is regarded as suffering from temporary unsoundness of mind . |
| 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 | In English law ‘ precatory ’ is treated as contrasting with ‘ imperative ’ : a settlor is supposed to instruct a trustee to hold property under trust , and if his words are merely precatory , then the question is whether a trust has been set up . |
| 9 | If all the statutory conditions are satisfied , the shareholder is treated as disposing of his shares for capital gains tax purposes and not as receiving a distribution , and this treatment is mandatory . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( iii ) Whether or not a polynomial is irreducible depends upon which set of polynomials it is considered as belonging to . |
| 12 | The Whip is interrupting and asking for my solution . |
| 13 | A racing crew will find that they can keep the power on while the yacht is weaving and dodging in close company . |
| 14 | For example it is reported that overstocking in litter-based poultry will result in an overloaded offensive litter ; whilst understocking may also be undesirable , since this may result in a dry and dusty litter which may help disperse the odour over a wide area , unless dust filters are installed . |
| 15 | A teacher is reported as speaking in the following way : ‘ Two huge girls were fighting . |
| 16 | The woman from Ty Fach is laughing and shouting in the night . |
| 17 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In some representations , in the Book of the Dead , the phoenix is depicted as arising from him . |
| 20 | IMI is depicted as lying below the efficient frontier EMF as the investor is engaged in the construction of a series of sub-optimal portfolios by the definition of the efficient frontier itself . |
| 21 | The reader is reminded that according to the reasoning of this book , the ‘ events ’ have always been the direct result of the satisfying of ‘ desire ’ , the existence of which is the basic presumption relegated to pre-life and therefore having no direct relevance to the Created God . |
| 22 | A little African finch , the cut-throat finch , when it is disturbed while sitting inside its ball-shape nest , gives a bizarre ‘ snake-dance ’ reaction . |
| 23 | Accuracy is best ensured by writing an exact description of what is seen while looking at it and checking the completed description before moving on . |
| 24 | It means that Jesus is seen as belonging to God in a special way . |
| 25 | And in all three , what is autonomous ( or authentic ) is what is seen as originating in some way from within the self ; what is in some way untainted by the conditioning or manipulation to which a woman has previously been subjected . |
| 26 | At one extreme underthrusting is seen as proceeding for up to 1500 km at the base of the continental crust through the peeling off of the lower part of the lithosphere of the Eurasian Plate ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) . |
| 27 | Power is seen as residing in office , and stemming from the bureaucrat 's high social prestige and wide discretion to act within very broadly defined colonial policies . |
| 28 | At other times it may be barely admitted to consciousness , if whatever it was is seen as threatening to the self . |
| 29 | This is seen as threatening in a country where repression and war are every day facts of life and their work is often dangerous . |
| 30 | Speech production is seen as relying on the reverse process — that is , the ability to translate abstract ideas into speech sounds and to articulate those speech sounds in such a way that they are comprehensible to other people . |