Example sentences of "is [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " 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 | Show the candidate to the door and say goodbye while shaking hands so that the interview is properly rounded off and the candidate leaves with the impression of having been dealt with fairly and politely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | David Newbegin , county council director of the environment , said : ‘ It is properly closed off . ’ |
| 8 | I ca n't get into the mind of some of the present batch of legislators , because they do n't seem to think thinks out logically , but what it 's actually done , or what it 's trying to do , is to make it very difficult to have an education system that is properly thought out , properly resourced and properly organized for the benefit of everybody and not just one or two people , and that 's one of the difficulties and that 's the difficulty that we any Local Authority is faced with . |
| 9 | ‘ If the answer is yes , then you will shortly be having your workstation assessed to ensure it is properly set up to allow you to work comfortably . |
| 10 | Business tenancies — making sure the agreement is properly drawn up . |
| 11 | If the research is properly carried out , the personal influence of the researcher on the results is slight . |
| 12 | This hardly inspires confidence in the system , and emphasises the problem of actually proving that inside information was used , or showing when information stops being ‘ unpublished ’ and is widely known about . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you 'll find that pushing to the front of the queue is rather frowned on , ’ an official disdainfully informs him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The theory of MCE is inadequately thought out and would not be supported in language learning fields . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The knot is tightened by pulling the end of hook length which is eventually trimmed off . |
| 18 | But she tones down her performance as the show progresses and one is eventually won over . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | First , they enable you to ‘ gather ’ the knitting in , second , the ribber comb is held by the gathered thread row — this row is eventually pulled through and does n't form a permanent part of the welt. the second row to be knitting is , when the hem is finished , the first row of the welt . |
| 22 | This REM sleep " rebound " may be of the order of 50 per cent over baseline levels , although the total amount of REM sleep " lost " during the period of selective deprivation is rarely made up entirely . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A further characteristic which is perhaps so obvious that it is rarely remarked on , is that farming is a skilled occupation . |
| 25 | The artistic ability of John Harden is rarely remarked on but Green often enjoyed music in his company . |
| 26 | The documentation is straightforward enough , but is badly laid out and awkward to read . |
| 27 | It takes its real departure from a problem , even if it is badly set up . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No one doubts that , if the programme is rigorously carried out , inflation , which had topped 80% a month when the new government took office , will collapse . |
| 30 | In chyluria Sudan three is avidly taken up by all body fat and turns the urine pink . |