Example sentences of "[vb pp] [is] " in BNC.

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1 Bonemeal is a good base which lasts several years , and can be spread at the rate of about 180–240 g per sq m ( 6–8 oz per sq yd ) , and garden compost into which wood ashes have been mixed is particularly helpful on such soils .
2 To say that its reviews were mixed is to understate the case — the cons far outweighed the pros .
3 Is n't something to do with the with the the way it 's mixed is n't is n't Chris talking about No ?
4 It 's mixed is it ?
5 cos Goodwood 's sorted is n't it ?
6 A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended .
7 all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago
8 The model which Interplayce has designed is a result of thinking from ‘ the child in , rather than the building out .
9 Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’
10 Even if the software designed is genuinely original and useful , there is a danger that scholars become hooked on the production of software .
11 Yeah , we 've actually er , way we 've designed is that erm , it 's actually a sort of , it 's inserted in the ham handbook itself as actually a , sort of separate removal section so they can
12 How well designed is the Habitat Improvement Scheme ?
13 An additional important factor in influencing the way in which group awards should be designed is the introduction of National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQs ) in the rest of the UK .
14 The maximum rig size permitted is 6.3 sq m .
15 In Germany everything that is not permitted is prohibited .
16 In the USSR everything that is permitted is prohibited .
17 The greatest amount normally permitted is one-and-a-half times your average final salary up to a ceiling of £1 12,500 ( or higher if your pension plan pre-dates the 1989 Budget ) .
18 Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ …
19 The only kind of conversation about women permitted is crude and obscene but in a strange way this is a bridge between the prisoners and the staff who share these attitudes .
20 In an indirect system , the only connection to the rising main usually permitted is the obligatory one going to a drinking water tap in the kitchen ( though some existing houses may have other connections — for a WC , for example ) .
21 In the proposed E two the only development that would be permitted is that which needs to be in the open countryside and that 's a much more rigorous test .
22 Development in the open countryside would not normally be permitted is the way that the the draft policy 's guidance .
23 The theory that had wrongly been supposed is that boiling water is hot enough to make tea .
24 The won is high .
25 A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites .
26 This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position .
27 In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom .
28 ( One of the few politicians so far to have mentioned raising taxes in an election campaign and still have won is Bill Clinton . )
29 What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition .
30 Bills being discounted and re-discounted is part of the Sterling Money Market at work .
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