Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lubricate it with a saliva that is sticky so that the ants adhere to it , and alkaline so that the formic acid of their stings is neutralised . |
| 2 | For cattle , a single strand is generally enough if the shock is strong enough and the animals properly trained to respect it . |
| 3 | It 's 7.50 a.m. and the inmates have been locked in their cells since 8.45 p.m. the previous evening . |
| 4 | Although the Bible 's claim for itself is that God did directly speak through men , and that he so controlled them that they said what he wanted them to say , it is clear also that the men concerned used their own minds in the process . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it is clear enough that the realities of pre-war football do not find agreement with postwar nostalgia . |
| 6 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 7 | It is arguable therefore that the provisions dealing with the residence of trustees as a body of persons in TCGA 1992 , s69(1) are not applicable to the non-resident trust code . |
| 8 | It 's smashing walking along this track because it 's firm underfoot and the views back to Malham and over to Great Scar and Attermire are worth nine out of ten in anybody 's book . |
| 9 | In the Jackson 's case , all is well here so the signs are good for linking up with something good and loud . |
| 10 | It is essential therefore that the managers are highly motivated . |
| 11 | Sometimes the relation between brothers-in-law is asymmetrical like that between elder brother and younger brother and sometimes affinity itself is asymmetrical so that the categories " wife-givers " and " wife-takers " are distinct ; but these are technical matters which lie outside the scope of the present discussion . |
| 12 | The other valve sits in the thick one like a lid , and the whole animal is curved so that the margins of the valves were kept clear of the sediment . |
| 13 | Although revision is necessary so that the schedules remain suitable for classifying new literature , it must be remembered that there is a gulf between publishing the schedules in an updated form and applying them . |
| 14 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 15 | This is true largely because the problems associated with maintaining a safe environment are different in different parts of the world . |
| 16 | It is true also that the regulations will be a matter for discussion at a later stage . |
| 17 | The equation is true even when the eigenvalues are not all different . |
| 18 | This is permissible indeed if the charges are at fixed positions . |