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

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1 If the prospectus , the preliminary visit and efforts to build the school 's reputation in the neighbourhood are effective then the parents are almost preselected .
2 Etaul Manor 's open nearly every Sunday .
3 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 .
4 About three months before the actual event took place all leave was cancelled , even 24 hour passes , and Bomber Command was operational nearly every night , bad weather or good .
5 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 .
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 Rather it suggests that intercourse was normal once a couple began to " keep company " and considered each other " promised " .
9 That which is sinful by nature is sinful right the way through it 's existence unless something radical happens to it .
10 If the primary log file is flawed then the software performing the rebuild operation will switch to the reserve log .
11 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 .
12 If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked .
13 Even if the contract documentation is precise occasionally an estimator will make a mistake .
14 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 .
15 ‘ Anyway , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I think Anpetuwi is charming just the way it is .
16 If the appreciation is high enough and the price is possible then a purchase results .
17 It was nearly four in the morning by now , and Boy was ready to sleep ; not exhausted , but content , knowing that the night was perfect just the way it was .
18 er I thought your chain was loose there the way it was hanging
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 His voice was hearty yet the answer did not convince her .
21 The atrocities against people referred to in the letter were horrific yet the point you used to ‘ highlight ’ them was ‘ what man would want women or girls that had been raped ? ’
22 If there is any transformation under which a form is invariant then the form is symmetrical .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 From November to April wild-bird food is available once a day and nuts are suspended in a holder .
26 If the answer is positive then the employer can seek redress .
27 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 .
28 If the defence is successful then the plaintiff will recover no damages at all .
29 If the story is newsworthy enough a newspaper or radio station will use it , however dull and uninteresting the press release .
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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