Example sentences of "is [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | To survive , remain active and breed in areas where there is little or no rain and no open water at all , a creature must have both a watertight skin and a watertight egg . |
| 2 | As the tensile strength of rocks is lower than the compression and shear strengths it is most likely that rock will be shattered during cooling and contraction . |
| 3 | It is possible that the character and appearance of Stephen Maturin owe something to the friendship between Captain M. in Marryat 's The King 's Own and the surgeon MacAllen , a dedicated amateur naturalist who used the ships on which he served as convenient repositories for live and dead specimens from their ports of call . |
| 4 | The coat is whitish and the muzzle and insides of the ears are red . |
| 5 | If we take a view about fairness , then the funding of capital schemes is fairer if the charge and the cost of the those schemes is spread over the life of the the asset . |
| 6 | The implications are unavoidable : ‘ … it is clear that the life and death of Christ have no efficacy in this scheme of things … the salvation of the world is now wrought by the events of the life of Constantine , symbolized by his saving sign ’ . |
| 7 | it is clear that the name and role mapping can take place independently . |
| 8 | It is clear that the warp and woof of everyday life in stepfamilies differs from that of unbroken families not merely because of external constraints which frustrate the efforts of those who may seek , as some do , to recast their family lives in the mould of the nuclear family , but that family norms themselves may also be markedly altered , tempered to fit the limits of the new situation and fabricated anew from the post-marital residue of family beliefs and sentiments . |
| 9 | Clustering is easier when every function and predicate which we might consider applies to every conceivable training instance . |
| 10 | Er , Council are also agreeing to the road and a District Council are in agreement with the road , albeit that they have asked for the road to follow more closely to the erm but I believe it is acceptable that the road and the line of the road in general principle is . |
| 11 | That is wrong because the Bill and the Local Government Bill were published before that . |
| 12 | Ma Bell is prepared to pay so much because the firm 's chairman , Robert Allen , is convinced that the computer and telecommunications industries are converging . |
| 13 | There is no hot water in the building , the electrical system is dangerous and the kitchen and laundry are 40 years out of date . ’ |
| 14 | It is arguable that the scale and pattern of grants might more reasonably have been based on the status quo in individual schools , to avoid an invidious distinction between the two " classes " of award . |
| 15 | Before recording any detailed information on the lesson , it is important to ensure that the classroom atmosphere is such that the material and the teaching it supports are getting reasonable attention from the class . |
| 16 | The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas . |
| 17 | Advantage : the closet is larger than a pit and therefore lasts longer also it is easy to empty . |
| 18 | The Lynx is larger than the GameBoy and you need two hands to hold it . |
| 19 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 20 | The WYSIWYG that word processors offer has always been based around monospaced fonts because that is all that the computer and printer have been able to cope with . |
| 21 | He is confident that the government and the army will accept what the assembly decides . |
| 22 | His glorious book is more than a history and more than a 25,000-mile travelogue , although it is also both of those . |
| 23 | ‘ We have proved conclusively that the human is more than a body and a limited intellect . |
| 24 | Dealing firstly with the question of risk , it is our view that if the balance of medical evidence is that the deterioration will occur , then that is more than a risk and the appropriate course is for the Court to award damages on the basis that it is probable that the deterioration will occur . |
| 25 | At supervisory/management level , the industry still lacks trained personnel ; it is important that the hotel and catering courses attract their fair share of the extra young people who will be gaining qualifications , that the programmes of study meet industry needs and that once these qualified people come into the industry they stay and are not lost in the first two or three years . |
| 26 | In some cases , infill development of this kind may be irresistible , but it is important that the quality and potential of the garden should be assessed first . |
| 27 | Some work canteens do serve salads or jacket potatoes , which will be useful when you reach Stage III of the diet , but initially it is important that the weight and calorie content of your diet is exact or as near as possible . |
| 28 | This change of atmosphere is important because the scope and effectiveness of statutory ouster clauses is a matter of statutory interpretation , and so it is open to the courts , by interpreting ouster clauses more or less strictly , to regulate access to judicial review . |
| 29 | It is evident that the expertise and contacts Grampian companies have developed through supplying the North Sea oil industry stands them in good stead to take advantage of oil related opportunities in the Middle East . |
| 30 | The male is smaller than the female and has a gonopodium which he uses to fertilise the female . |