Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 ) Whey is drained off during the cutting process , leaving banks of curd that are turned constantly by hand until the correct acidity level is finally achieved ( centre ) . |
| 2 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 3 | The artwork is placed down onto the UV light box so that the ‘ Copper Track View ’ of the artwork is downwards , towards the light source . |
| 4 | The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble . |
| 5 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 6 | Shortly after he is flown back to the mainland , to the most south naval base of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 7 | Turkey is flown in with the weekly food supplies , while in Tripoli some enterprising expats even breed turkeys specifically for the festive table . |
| 8 | From Caniço we go back up onto the main airport road and continue on to Santa Cruz ( 20km ) , whose centre is situated off to the right of the main road . |
| 9 | The steam centre based in the Warwick Road , Birmingham is situated in between the main British Rail diesel multiple unit maintenance depot and re-fuelling sidings , complete with a large car-park for several hundred cars . |
| 10 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 11 | We get a little Federation Cup , which is on now and again , and just the final from Brighton which is broken off at the end of the second set for snooker . |
| 12 | Alcohol is broken down by the chemicals called enzymes in the liver through which blood circulates once every four minutes . |
| 13 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 14 | And if in carrying he is delayed out for the night it will count two works . |
| 15 | The disc is filled out with the tone-poems Pohjola 's Daughter and En Saga , the latter ( I always think ) just five minutes too long . |
| 16 | It is a top-down approach in that the entities are identified first , followed by the relationships between them , and then more detail is filled in as the attributes and key attribute(s) of each entity are identified . |
| 17 | Despite his claim that he does not make things into ideas but only ideas into things , the feeling remains , as , in effect , Berkeley concedes , that ‘ all that is real and substantial … is banished out of the world ’ , and that everything has been made into ‘ so many chimeras and illusions on the fancy ’ . |
| 18 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 19 | and the pelmet is propped up by the bookcase . |
| 20 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 21 | The other hand , also in a clenched fist position , is tucked in against the opposite side of the body , with the thumb and fingers facing upwards . |
| 22 | The wrenching cry at the start of the Finale claps a vice on the emotions that is sustained through to the ambivalent release provided by the Epilogue , and Barbirolli is one of the few conductors to prolong the agony of the climax by observing VW 's protracted emphasis on the grinding trombone and tube underpinning . |
| 23 | In certain areas of Britain there is also a ‘ tradition ’ of digging out badgers , so that they may be subjected to the same merciless treatment that is meted out to the fox . |
| 24 | Take great care not to apply too much adhesive as it will show through or seep out once the glass is pressed on to the picture . |
| 25 | In the Brazil nut , Bertholleria excelsa , and Eschweilera spp. , the hood is pressed down on the fertile stamens and bears only staminodes with nectar at their bases : only a strong bee can lift the hood — species of Xylocopa and female euglossine bees . |
| 26 | A proportion is intercepted by the leaves and stems of plants , and some is evaporated back into the atmosphere . |
| 27 | The morning is given over to the religious aspect of celebrations , the afternoon belongs to the children , while the brass bands come into their own in the evening . |
| 28 | The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited . |
| 29 | The second CD is given over in the main to what I think of as Mark Goodier bands ( not a breath of criticism implicit in that , by the way ) . |
| 30 | Its lemon fragrance is given off by the leaves without the need to rub them , unlike lemon balm and , even when dried , continue to be pungently scented for years , so that they constitute an excellent ingredient for potpourris . |