Example sentences of "[adj] be [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And the reason for this is that usually the male has a vast number of sex cells and consequently can afford to compete er for er female cells to fertilize .
2 The exception to this is that only a parent may receive the results of the pupil 's assessment .
3 This is because both the check and the hammer are mounted on the key , so they can not be brought closer to each other by the rotation of the key .
4 This is because quite a lot of them are English and ca n't see the difference between Knoydart and Chipping Sudbury .
5 First and foremost is that almost every facility has an OHP projector whereas not all have slide projectors .
6 They suggest that this was because virtually no oil tankers frequented the northern Gulf during the seven months between the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the end of the war , when Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil production was subjected to a worldwide embargo .
7 But what makes me angry is that only a couple of these companies have bothered to alter their ads accordingly .
8 Another very important principle also is that these erm the relationship between the ultimate good — G I call it — and these subordinate ones is non-linear as a mathematician would say , that is that nearly every virtue becomes a vice if you have too much of it , you see .
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