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

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1 The jaw action is scissor-like and both tooth and jaw bone can perform the cutting function .
2 It follows from this that the failure of an employee to exercise reasonable skill and care in making his basic valuation is faulty and therefore maladministration .
3 There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge .
4 The judge had to ensure that the trial was fair and thus evidence should only be excluded if necessary to ensure that fairness , that is if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect .
5 O. simulans differs from O. mesembria in the form of the disk spinelets which have more points to the crown than those of O. mesembria ; shorter more rounded tentacle scales ; and stout , often curved lower arm spines , those of O. mesembria being long and quite rugose but not curved .
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