Example sentences of "is [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In chyluria Sudan three is avidly taken up by all body fat and turns the urine pink . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This requirement is expressly laid down in the United Kingdom by section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 , in the following terms : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The study shows that although large amounts of hydrogen chloride are released during some volcanic eruptions , this is effectively washed out in the rain that invariably accompanies an eruption . |
| 20 | There is , of course , a major difference between people who hold most of their wealth in land , or stocks and shares and government bonds , or even gold , compared with those whose ‘ wealth ’ is predominantly bound up in their right to an occupational or state pension . |
| 21 | Yet , at the same time , we live in a world which in reality is predominantly made up of couples and families . |
| 22 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 23 | This could so easily have been a recommendable mid-price set of Mozart 's mature Piano and Violin Sonatas , but it is arguably put out of court by the early digital recording ( made between 1975 and 1978 ) which gives the violin an unpleasant rough edgy tone . |
| 24 | I think we need to be theoretically and politically clear that no single culture is hermetically sealed off from others . |
| 25 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 26 | More recently we have learnt that the functioning of the immune system , that exquisitely coordinated mechanism protecting us from disease , is intimately tied in to levels of stress . |
| 27 | Hence the study of primitive culture is intimately bound up with that of primitive religion . |
| 28 | It turns out that the wild dog business is intimately bound up with another coming problem ; the spread of silvan rabies out of eastern Europe . |
| 29 | Mastery of the code of reading is intimately bound up with oral competence in a language . |
| 30 | To summarise therefore , the teaching of Jesus on this subject is intimately bound up with his establishment of the Kingdom : it is not a condemnation of wealth as such but a much-needed perspective on the material world in an age of materialism . |