Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The period under review is 1975-84 when the investigator was a lay member of the Council ; a critical period , it includes the Merrison Report , the subsequent Medical Act and reform of the Council , as well as the implementation of EEC directions .
2 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 .
3 The only parallel passage is 8.1 where the text reads , " Judas the Maccabee , and his followers " .
4 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 .
5 If the relationship between risk and return is linear then the value of should not be significantly different from zero .
6 That which is sinful by nature is sinful right the way through it 's existence unless something radical happens to it .
7 If the primary log file is flawed then the software performing the rebuild operation will switch to the reserve log .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 ‘ Anyway , ’ she said firmly , ‘ I think Anpetuwi is charming just the way it is .
11 So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white .
12 For example , if COUNT is 200 when the motor is running at 500 steps per second and 1 /4 step of ignition advance is required , then FIRE is set to 150 .
13 Since no further theory is available whereby the competitors might be assessed , legal theory appears to have reached an impasse .
14 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 .
15 If there is any transformation under which a form is invariant then the form is symmetrical .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 If the answer is positive then the employer can seek redress .
19 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 .
20 If the defence is successful then the plaintiff will recover no damages at all .
21 But this is a fine company , and with the shares already down by half from their peak last year is this really the time to sell ?
22 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 .
23 If the problem is severe then the child and mother may need to be admitted to hospital for observation of nutritional intake .
24 If the language is infinite then the language may be specified by producing a recogniser program .
25 If this view is correct then the victims are all those constituting the market , other than the insiders .
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