Example sentences of "[noun] is [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the boot sole is flexible then a crampon is unlikely to give a secure enough fit and will be difficult to use properly for serious mountaineering .
2 The period under review is 1975-84 when the investigator was a lay member of the Council ; a critical period , it includes the Merrison Report , the subsequent Medical Act and reform of the Council , as well as the implementation of EEC directions .
3 It 's an imaginary fox , yes and so when at the very end of the poem he says when he says the window is starless still the clock ticks the page is printed .
4 Section 138(1) — ( 10 ) of the 1984 Act is applicable whensoever a lessor is proceeding by action to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture for non-payment of rent in the County Court .
5 The only parallel passage is 8.1 where the text reads , " Judas the Maccabee , and his followers " .
6 Where the trespass is trivial then the damages will be nominal ; but where the trespass involves some beneficial use of the land , the plaintiff is entitled to a reasonable remuneration for the use of the land , as if the use had been made under an agreement , such as a lease or a contract .
7 If the relationship between risk and return is linear then the value of should not be significantly different from zero .
8 That which is sinful by nature is sinful right the way through it 's existence unless something radical happens to it .
9 If the primary log file is flawed then the software performing the rebuild operation will switch to the reserve log .
10 If a total of less than 1% of the population is undefined then the errors are unlikely to be great , but the reliability of the moments decreases sharply as the proportions of undefined materials increases , and the technique should not be used with a higher proportion of unknowns notwithstanding the convenience and availability of pocket calculators suitable to perform the arithmetic .
11 Even if the contract documentation is precise occasionally an estimator will make a mistake .
12 If that supportive evidence is forthcoming then the implication is that vertebrates existed in the Late Cambrian , 510 million years ago , and some 40 million years before the appearance of vertebrate armour .
13 ‘ Anyway , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I think Anpetuwi is charming just the way it is .
14 So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white .
15 If the appreciation is high enough and the price is possible then a purchase results .
16 For example , if COUNT is 200 when the motor is running at 500 steps per second and 1 /4 step of ignition advance is required , then FIRE is set to 150 .
17 Since no further theory is available whereby the competitors might be assessed , legal theory appears to have reached an impasse .
18 The distinction between fixtures and fittings is crucial whenever a freehold or leasehold estate is sold to another .
19 Sleep is impossible yet the Commando in the next trench when I looked in on him was sleeping soundly , his face and arms uncovered and the mosquitoes completely ignoring him .
20 If there is any transformation under which a form is invariant then the form is symmetrical .
21 If Greg is alive then the chances are Paula is alive too . ’
22 Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status .
23 The method that has been used to store the bigram and trigram matrices relies on the fact that if no value for a trigram transition is available then the system backs off to the bigram value .
24 From November to April wild-bird food is available once a day and nuts are suspended in a holder .
25 If the answer is positive then the employer can seek redress .
26 If a printer is available then the puzzle on screen could be dumped to the printer and the wordsearch would be solved in the usual way .
27 If the defence is successful then the plaintiff will recover no damages at all .
28 If the story is newsworthy enough a newspaper or radio station will use it , however dull and uninteresting the press release .
29 But this is a fine company , and with the shares already down by half from their peak last year is this really the time to sell ?
30 If primary prevention is successful the number of new cases ( the incidence ) should reduce , while if secondary or tertiary prevention is successful then the prevalence rate should reduce .
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