Example sentences of "[is] [subord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why we should regard Labour 's albeit genuine crocodile tears as extremely salty . |
| 2 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |
| 3 | you know , part of me was thinking well just a minute you know this service is if blind people can offer describers , but on the other hand people are entitled to go away on holiday |
| 4 | One is if local elements are arranged in parallel with independent access to the output mechanisms . |
| 5 | The only basis on which criticism can be made of the inevitable decline in investment during the recession is if high praise is lavished on the Government for the three years in the last 1980s when investment touched peaks . |
| 6 | If isostatic compensation is local , that is if vertical adjustments of the lithosphere in response to the removal of a load are confined just to the area covered by the original load , then isostatic uplift simply reduces the rate at which a land-surface is lowered by denudation ( Fig. 4.7(A) ) . |
| 7 | This is because regular heroin use is likely to result in both physical addiction and a major psychological dependence , and these consequences would keep prevalence at a high level long after any drop in the level of social deprivation . |
| 8 | This is because frictional drag ( from a boot or a ski , say ) melts them locally to a thin film of liquid water . |
| 9 | This is because Japanese corporations place very little emphasis on merger as a mechanism of growth or diversification of business . |
| 10 | It is because young people of both sexes are increasingly seeking work on the mainland , instead of participating in the precarious agricultural island economy as their elders continue to do . |
| 11 | This is because young dogs , from six months old , tend to need more exercise than other individuals . |
| 12 | This is because good control is reached at a much lower ground speed . |
| 13 | This is because full-time students will only have to pay one fifth of the Personal Community Charge . |
| 14 | This is because low-pitched sounds have long wavelengths which can not resolve the difference between closely spaced objects . |
| 15 | This is because economic loss can be of unforeseen proportions , can far exceed , in many cases the total contract value , and thus be a risk which it is for all practical purposes beyond the financial strength of most businessmen to assume , particularly if they were to accept such risks routinely in all their business dealings . |
| 16 | It is because carbon-based molecules are necessary for the kind of life that we find on Earth , and because those molecules are of necessity complex , that life itself is fragile . |
| 17 | It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them . |
| 18 | This is because slight frosting on the eyes covers up careless blending and matt lipsticks have often been too dry-looking . |
| 19 | This is because current connectionist networks must duplicate all the nodes and connections for each unit in the system in order to represent temporal aspects of the problem . |
| 20 | This problem is , in practice , not too important because best execution would normally apply to mere counterparties only if they are private customers ( which perhaps should be required ) ; this is because other customers can waive it and it does not apply to market counterparties ( see page 29 below ) at all . |
| 21 | This is because other dealings as principal with the firm may technically not be investment business by the counterparty ; because the firm is an authorised person the own account exemption in para 17 of Sched 1 would normally apply . |
| 22 | This is because other techniques , by themselves , are either inadequate ( eg pump-and-treat ) , do not permanently solve the problem ( eg immobilisation or containment ) , or have the potential to be very expensive ( eg incineration ) . |
| 23 | This is because metaphorical mappings , and hence readings , are ultimately constrained by what appear to be universal cognitive structures . |
| 24 | This is because multi-way nodes are represented via alternative ( brother ) pointers , and as new words are added , non-words are often introduced . |
| 25 | This is because certain newspapers thoughtlessly mentioned that some pet cats in California had been discovered to be suffering from the AIDS virus . |
| 26 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 27 | This is because certain instrumentation and connecting cables ( see section 9.5 ) are arranged to match these impedances ; 600Ο is the adopted standard in professional audio-frequency systems , 75Ο the standard in domestic television and 50Ο the standard in radio-frequency instrumentation . |
| 28 | There it is well-established that part of the reason people differ , even as adults , is because certain regions of the brain responsible for triggering fearful behaviour are simply more reactive in some individuals than in others . |
| 29 | This is because part-time members of the force have only slight contact with regular policemen and women , and experience greater status incongruity as a result of the contrast between the responsibility held in their day-time employment and the more restricted range of their police duties . |
| 30 | This is because quantitative techniques are seen as more costly ( in terms of money , time and mental work load ) , more complex and ( perhaps wrongly ) as more inaccurate than judgmental methods . |