Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [subord] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detainee making a request ‘ must be permitted to consult a solicitor as soon as is practicable except to the extent that delay is permitted by this section ’ . |
| 2 | Also , the more moderate negative impact of teenage childbearing upon infant mortality in several countries , first of all in the Western Hemisphere region , where infant mortality in the maternal age group under 20 is lower than in the age group over 40 , may reflect , among other things ( such as later age at marriage and at first birth , higher educational and living standards , etc. ) the lower overall level of infant mortality . |
| 3 | Is that because of the distance they have to travel ? |
| 4 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 5 | Is that because of the food price war ? |
| 6 | Is that because of the war ? |
| 7 | Excess is insidious because at the time it seems a bonus but later on it can be an expense that diverts resources from development areas . |
| 8 | Mark claims that all this is possible because of the authority of Jesus : |
| 9 | Do you know it is possible because of the fear of people around you , the fear of your peers , the fear of what men may say , of what your family will think , of what your work mates might say about you , it is possible to allow that fear to send you to hell . |
| 10 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 11 | The junior Dog is a very small constellation , but is unmistakable because of the presence of Procyon , which is one of the nearest of the bright stars ; it is 11½ light-years away , and is the equal of 11 Suns . |
| 12 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 13 | It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756 . |
| 14 | but is this because of the family 's bad eating habits , or is there a genetic factor ? |
| 15 | The " time risk " illustrated in the drawing is interesting because of the inevitability of failure : the risk is shifted to the estimation of the length of time that might elapse before that failure . |
| 16 | While Beer 's hypothesis is plausible as to the effect of institutions that fail to meet new expectations on legitimacy in government , it is arguable as to the extent to which such a failure to meet expectations has taken place . |
| 17 | This working definition is crucial because of the difficulty in distinguishing between accidental and non-accidental injuries . |
| 18 | One solution , to do all this from Whitehall , which is allegedly under the scrutiny of the House of Commons , is impossible because of the extent and variety of the work . |
| 19 | The Croaking Gourami 's noise is produced by the musculature of the pectoral fins passing over other parts of the fish 's skeleton — and is audible because of the labyrinth organ acts as a kind of sound chamber . |
| 20 | Rear passengers perch high , which is fine except for the long-bodied , who have to duck the head to make the best of the view . |
| 21 | The difference is critical , since total productive consumption has a relationship to unproductive consumption , whilst the Harrod equation is indiscriminate as to the nature of consumption ; nor does it take into account the rate of profit . |
| 22 | Rosenthal speculates that pepper and chocolate are classed as masculine because they are stronger flavours than salt and vanilla , while Chevrolet is feminine because of its sound ( it 's a longer word than Ford , has an open vowel at the end , connotes ‘ Frenchness ’ ) and knife is masculine because of the association with aggression . |
| 23 | This , according to C de F , is inevitable because of the coal 's low quality and high cost to mine . |
| 24 | The same sort of considerations apply in determining whether this ‘ constructive ’ dismissal is unfair as in the case of ordinary dismissals . |
| 25 | All this is conventional except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry . |
| 26 | In a partnership , the liability of the partners is unlimited except in the case of a limited partnership , and even then there must be at least one general partner with unlimited liability . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the cycle is unique because of the uniqueness of the path from J to 1 . |
| 28 | INFANTS at Harrowgate Hill School in Darlington are adopting a uniform of hard hats , overalls and wellingtons and it is all because of the pantomime , Peter Pan . |
| 29 | He 's got a very good serve , but the percentage of points he makes from the baseline is better than with the volley . |
| 30 | it 's good , I mean it 's good because of the amount of lighting and effects that they bring , I mean it 's interesting like , you know . |