Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | One corner of this shop is partitioned off for brake work , brake testing , metalling of axle-box and other bearings and for dealing with passenger communication apparatus , etc . |
| 3 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 4 | A rumour circulates and someone is shuffled off to some distant department . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 9 | Further evidence of Starfield 's commitment to quality is provided by the fact that every guitar which comes into the country is checked over by repairer Martyn Booth before being dispatched to the shops . |
| 10 | Each prospective members is checked out by a KSA officer , and the standard of its installations in monitored . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Shortly after he is flown back to the mainland , to the most south naval base of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 13 | Turkey is flown in with the weekly food supplies , while in Tripoli some enterprising expats even breed turkeys specifically for the festive table . |
| 14 | The huts provide water and toilets , and cooking is done by bottled gas which is flown in by helicopter ; there 's no electricity , of course . |
| 15 | Secondly , if the company is insolvent when the charge is registered out of time , it is vulnerable to challenge by the administrator or the liquidator . |
| 16 | These diseases are common in areas er where an out pouring of water from the individual is squared up with a ou , out pouring of people into the water , then you can appreciate that that transmission is very er , readily promoted under those circumstances . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The intensity of the group sessions is broken up with other prison activities , and relaxation . |
| 20 | Plan the layout so that the page is broken up into short paragraphs with sub-headings and highlighting through the use of emphasised test and underlining giving the message impact and more chance of getting through . |
| 21 | In this fashion dirt is broken up into particles until activity is exhausted . |
| 22 | In some cases , where large aa lavas flow from land into the sea , this is true , and great quantities of steam are generated , while the lava is broken up into small glassy fragments which pile up in thick heaps at the front of the flow . |
| 23 | Life Assurance ( this is broken up into three basic types ) |
| 24 | In fact , the calculation of the new y can be simplified by recognising that , in the notation of Section 8.1 , if the edge p to q is deleted without adding the edge I to J , the tree T is broken up into two smaller sub-trees . |
| 25 | The assembly task is broken up into segments , each being performed by a group of operatives in one bay of the plant , and taking about 20 minutes . |
| 26 | This fascinating program is broken up into several parts . |
| 27 | Like kung fu , karate is broken up into many styles , each professing to have within its range of techniques the answer to many combat situations . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Whether the words are printed , typed or handwritten ; whether they appear on a screen or on different types and qualities of paper ; whether a ‘ text ’ occurs as a separate item , as part of an academic journal , or in a book or an encyclopaedia ; how the page is laid out , the extent to which it is broken up by illustrations , headings , and the use of different typefaces . |
| 30 | The objects in Braque 's painting like the Still Life with Fruit Dish ( Moderna Museet , Stockholm ) , which is roughly contemporary with the Compotier , are more faceted , and the whole surface is broken up in terms of the same angular but subtly modulated planes which carry the eye back into a limited depth and then forward again on to the picture plane in a series of gentle declivities and projections . |