Example sentences of "is [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is mostly made up of perennial plants which will come up fresh in spring , there are one or two evergreen shrubs added for structure : an upright rosemary and a couple of spiky yuccas . |
| 2 | The current population is mostly made up of scientists and support staff working on contract for one or two years . |
| 3 | Linseed oil is mostly made out of the seeds of the lin linen plant . |
| 4 | The food at the hotel is mostly flown in from Vienna , so staying at Fudauri is Georgian extra-extra luxury . |
| 5 | If the law is to recognise the significance of the individual 's physical integrity , then it must provide for offences of this kind even if some of the conduct falling within the definition of the offence is properly kept out of the courts by prosecutorial discretion . |
| 6 | It is widely believed both within TDC and by its critics that the relatively high pay levels established by the reforming directors of the 1950s and 1960s led to applications by , and the recruitment of , men who did not know of or subscribe to the old codes . |
| 7 | This system may exploit water at temperatures of between 60 degrees centigrade and 12 degrees centigrade and is widely used today in France , USSR , Hungary , Iceland and many other locations . |
| 8 | With the genre scenes , part of the secret lies again in the way natural-sounding dialogue is skilfully caught up into a formal musical structure . |
| 9 | Not very serious , the plant grows on unharmed , new growth soon takes over , and the damaged foliage , while a little unsightly , is eventually cleared away by dead-heading and cutting back . |
| 10 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 11 | When he is eventually hounded out of America and into exile by J Edgar Hoover ( Kevin Dunn ) it is an ignominious end to his career . |
| 12 | Wage inflation may well be the consequence of excess demand in the labour market , but it is also the means by which excess demand is eventually squeezed out of the system . |
| 13 | Moreover , a true recalibration of the biliary stenosis after longterm plastic stenting is rarely achieved even after insertion of multiple 10 French plastic stents . |
| 14 | For example , a male is rarely limited reproductively by his capacity to produce sperm but a female is restricted in her output of eggs . |
| 15 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |
| 16 | In short , patchiness , in space and time , is as much a feature of the oceans as it is of land ; indeed , ‘ patchiness ’ is a great principle in ecology — though it is rarely singled out as such . |
| 17 | The loaf was very large , flat , brown-crusted , open-textured , a pain de ménage , the real household French bread such as is rarely produced nowadays in restaurants and inns . |
| 18 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |
| 19 | Precisely how this requisite adjustment is effected is rarely discussed satisfactorily in this literature , particularly when one bears in mind the close connection between changes in money wages and changes in prices which is such a prominent feature of the pricing decision in most advanced market economies . |
| 20 | The London studio is lavishly kitted out with six cameras , equipment for sending a facsimile of a document in just six seconds , plus an audio device that automatically focuses the cameras , on whoever is speaking . |
| 21 | In chyluria Sudan three is avidly taken up by all body fat and turns the urine pink . |
| 22 | This is expressly ruled out in the Act , but only for five years , although the Conservative Education Association recommended that the period should be ten years . |
| 23 | This requirement is expressly laid down in the United Kingdom by section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 , in the following terms : |
| 24 | 9.11 Representations The Tenant acknowledges that this Lease has not been entered into in reliance wholly or partly on any statement or representation made by or on behalf of the Landlord except any such statement or representation that is expressly set out in this Lease This is self-explanatory but see the comments on misrepresentation under clause 11 of the agreement for lease . |
| 25 | As Medau is little known yet in Hants and West Sussex , it was publicised as an ‘ Open Rally ’ for anyone interested in movement to come and see for themselves . |
| 26 | This is duly hooked up to its stablemate , an Ampeg 1510 cab , containing one 15″ and one 10″ speaker with an attenuable horn to augment the higher frequencies . |
| 27 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 28 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 29 | In the three-dimensional systems treated in section 2.2 , the strange attractors are locally planar : a small displacement perpendicular to this sheet will decay , as the trajectory returns to the attractor ; a small displacement along the sheet will remain , as a trajectory is effectively pushed forward in time ; and a small lateral displacement will grow in time . |
| 30 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |