Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun sg] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation is much simpler where software is written for and at the request of a client . |
| 2 | the loss , misdelivery or damage is occasioned during transit and results from negligent act or omission by the Carrier ; |
| 3 | The problem may be particularly acute where power is effectively vested in the hands of a dominant chief executive . |
| 4 | ‘ I find the Spanish terribly emotional where music is concerned . |
| 5 | We would add that to suggest giving equal status to what is currently thought to be feminine or masculine is to ignore the way in which one is defined by the other . |
| 6 | ‘ I know I can be a bit assertive where business is concerned but you know where Fernando was concerned I suppose I just went all female . |
| 7 | The situation is slightly different where regression is concerned . |
| 8 | Carelessness when cigarette- or pipe-smoking is a well documented cause of accidents and in many work places , smoking is now forbidden in designated areas because of the fire hazard ( quite apart from public concern about smoking-related diseases p. 131 ) . |
| 9 | The argument for this as-if strategy is straightforward enough : civilization is impossible unless the decisions of some well-defined person or group are accepted by everyone as setting public standards that will be enforced if necessary through the police power . |
| 10 | The difficulty which many people have in seeing this where religion is concerned is because of an either/or mentality . |
| 11 | It takes a while to get used to the looks of the new car , but it is clear that Lotus is seeking to advance sports car design rather than just repeat past successes . |
| 12 | However , the fact that the figure for identical twins is not 100 per cent makes it clear that schizophrenia is not a simple inherited metabolic disorder . |
| 13 | It is clear that reading is a dynamic activity in which the reader is actively involved — that it has much to do with the reader 's thought processes . |
| 14 | But although the argument over who were the real world champions was emphatically settled in favour of Nick Farr-Jones 's side , the political machinations before , during and after the tours have made it painfully clear that rugby is a sideshow — albeit one with significant political influence — in the scheme of things in South Africa . |
| 15 | While it may still be a rite of passage , it 's clear that marriage is no longer regarded as a journey without end . |
| 16 | Make it clear that fidelity is important . |
| 17 | It should now be very clear that development is a dynamic process in which cells repeatedly interact with each other , change shape and position , and become different . |
| 18 | Although we need not spend much time on it , it is important to be clear that Marxism is atheistic . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , assuming a practical drilling depth limit of around 6 km , which is also about the greatest depth at which economic gas could reasonably be expected to survive even assuming conservative palaeogeothermal gradients ( as discussed later ) , it is clear that exploration is likely to be confined to the hanging wall of the thrust system for all except a narrow zone adjacent to the Variscan Front . |
| 20 | However , now we 're spoilt for choice , it has become clear that Juice is neither the best nor the worst of the genre : less sentimental and powerful than Boyz N The Hood , and far superior to Straight Outta Brooklyn , Juice is still a fair way to spend an hour or two . |
| 21 | It is clear that signalling is one of the vital factors that , unfortunately , has contributed in the immediate past to several major accidents . |
| 22 | This requires a conscious effort , because it is clear that discrimination is more often unintentional than intentional . |
| 23 | Following on from Chris Bonington 's recent book The Climbers — A History of Mountaineering , it 's clear that mountaineering is intrinsically a little dull . |
| 24 | It is clear that architecture is not altogether the same as a film or a song : for instance , both the latter make use of performers — more crucially , stars . |
| 25 | Rarely has it been so clear that freedom is indivisible , and that attacks on one set of civil liberties are likely to be a part of a projected destruction of all such freedoms . |
| 26 | They usually deny feeling sorry for themselves — ‘ No , everything 's fine ! ’ — but they make it clear that life is tough for them . |
| 27 | In particular , it is clear that associability is not ( as eq 3.1 implies ) determined solely by events occurring on the preceding trial . |
| 28 | From these answers it is clear that fragmentation is an expected and accepted quality of housework . |
| 29 | It certainly makes it quite clear that rape is about violence , power and control , and not a sexual act , but in doing so , it arguably indulges in a voyeurism equally sadistic . |
| 30 | From a large number of quantititative studies , it is clear that escape is very well predicted by certain patterns of behaviour . |