Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of Wordsworth 's poems are attempts to show how we associate ideas ( see ‘ Hartley ’ , p. 80 ) , and he often points out how the second idea — ‘ the echo of the voice ’ in this case — is blended with the first idea on which our conscious attention is fixed — ‘ my eye / Was fixed upon the glowing Sky ’ . |
| 2 | Secondly , there are deeper connections between care-giving and the social construction of masculine and feminine identities , as Ungerson ( 1983 ) and Graham have explored : ‘ Caring ’ becomes the category through which one sex is differentiated from the other … it becomes the defining characteristic of [ women 's ] self-identity ’ ( Graham , 1983 , p. 18 ) . |
| 3 | Further , in the world religions the sacred is differentiated from the social ; that is , that primitive religions are ‘ immanentist ’ , as Talcott Parsons underscored , while world religions are ‘ transcendentalist ’ . |
| 4 | This is the work that will suffer if food aid is redirected to the drought victims — sowing the seeds for a new drought . |
| 5 | It 's no great surprise that a lecture on Othello is mooted in the Possessed notebooks , and that ‘ O , Iago , the pity of it ’ gets quoted in Russian . |
| 6 | This is because the housing element within the grant is calculated for the duration of the academic year ( continuous from beginning of autumn term until the end of the academic year ) . |
| 7 | The cost is calculated with the benefit of advice from independent actuaries at what is expected to be a reasonably stable proportion of pensionable pay . |
| 8 | This figure is calculated on the assumption that an album retails for just under £7 . |
| 9 | A student 's weekly expenditure — which is calculated on the basis of the price of a basket of goods in May — amounts to £160.13 . |
| 10 | CGT for an individual is calculated on the basis that the first £6300 net gains are exempt , and gains over £6300 attract a tax rate of 30 per cent . |
| 11 | The tax year runs from 6 April to 5 April the following year , so the amount of tax you pay in any one year is calculated on the income you receive ( or are deemed to have received ) between these two dates . |
| 12 | The economic effects of a service such as education are clearly impossible to quantify accurately , and attempts by economists to calculate returns on investment in education are laden with many assumptions and are unavoidably narrow in approach ; in particular , the financial return is calculated on the basis of a ratio between income and the cost of educational qualifications [ Blaug , 1965 ; Morris and Ziderman , 1971 ] . |
| 13 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 14 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 15 | GOVERNMENT STANDARD SPENDING GRANT : The amount of Standard Spending Grant ( Otherwise known as Revenue Support Grant ) for each area is calculated on the basis that ( subject to the effect of the safety net ) a standard level of service can broadly be provided everywhere in England for the same community charge — this year £278 . |
| 16 | Interest is calculated on the daily cleared balance and paid direct to your account . |
| 17 | ( Note that a rate of discount is calculated on the face value not the purchase price . |
| 18 | The financial cost is calculated on the basis of both direct losses — as a result of reduced earnings for the timber and wood processing industries — and indirect ones in the form of the loss of the forests ' environmental and social benefits , such as their protection of soil and water resources and their tourism and amenity value . |
| 19 | The maximum permitted expenditure is calculated on the basis of a fixed sum plus a limited amount based on the number of electors : in an average-sized English county constituency in 1983 , the ceiling was approximately £4,700 ( just over $7,000 ) . |
| 20 | It is calculated at the following rates : |
| 21 | For Higher Rate Taxpayers , when the Bond matures or is surrendered the profit for tax purposes is calculated as the final proceeds less the original investment . |
| 22 | The block grant from central government is calculated as the difference between the GRP and what the authority plans to spend , so long as this expenditure is below a government assessment of what the local authority should spend . |
| 23 | Total change is calculated as the sum of natural change and net international migration and excludes other changes such as movements of Armed Forces , the effects of changes in the definition of population , and other statistical adjustments . |
| 24 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 25 | Whereas in mechanics the moment is calculated as the product of a force and the distance of its application from a fulcrum , in statistics the moment is computed from the product of the weight percentage in a given size class and the number of class grades from the origin of the curve . |
| 26 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 27 | It has two components : a quoted margin above ( although sometimes below ) the reference rate , and a capital gain or loss element which is calculated under the assumption that the difference between the current price of the FRN and the maturity value is spread evenly over the remaining life of the FRN . |
| 28 | The measure of ‘ other sources of income in employment ’ is calculated along the same lines as for unemployment income . |
| 29 | The method involves calculating two half-slopes : the left-hand half-slope is calculated between the first and the middle summary point , and the right-hand half-slope between the middle and the third point . |
| 30 | The profit chargeable for income tax purposes is calculated in the same way as if the Bond has been fully encashed at the date of death . |