Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] [noun] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is both noun and adjective . |
| 2 | This is when pomposity and pedantry seem to get off the leash . |
| 3 | Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement . |
| 4 | This is where talk and plans may come apart . |
| 5 | this is why Karen and Adrian won , forgetting John Wayne like that . |
| 6 | This is why VCR and TV sets of one standard will not normally play tapes of another standard . |
| 7 | This is why noise and horror go hand in hand — because madness and violence are senseless and arbitrary ( violence is the refusal to argue ) , and the only response is wordless — to scream . |
| 8 | Merely using stronger chemical bonds will have a small effect upon the strength of a cracked material by comparison with the stress concentrating effect of the crack and this is why diamond and sapphire are brittle and usually not especially strong , in spite of their hardness and high chemical bond energies . |
| 9 | This is why cable and satellite technology must advance together ; reception centres in parts of Britain with a good view of the satellite could pick up the signals and relay them by cable into nearby homes . |
| 10 | This is how Appel and Jacobson represent it . |
| 11 | Anyone who forgets that this is how men and women thought of the goods of life in those days will never be competent to judge the small but genuine improvement which the great capitalist expansion brought to a substantial part of the working classes in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | All is not gloom and doom , however , because of the Machine Knitting Association . |
| 13 | Am I right in suspecting that perhaps all is not sweetness and light on this issue among the New Scientist team ? |
| 14 | But all is not politics and institutions . |
| 15 | It is often said that as one market slows down another opens up and all is not doom and gloom . |
| 16 | What is injurious is not determinism but fatalism — that is , the pretence that bad things which are in fact within our control lie outside it and are incurable . |
| 17 | The Ekeko 's fair is where dreams and wishes are sold , where even the city 's poorest inhabitants can buy , in miniature , what they hope to obtain in real life during the course of the coming year . |
| 18 | That is either voltage or ligands , in the cases respectively of voltage activated channels or ligand activated channels , both of those factors will act at the level of gating . |
| 19 | For example , many adult education institutes , traditionally non-vocational , now put on courses for specific language examinations , that is either GCSE or A-levels with a choice of examination boards , those of the Institute of Linguists , the RSA or in the case of EFL , the Cambridge examinations amongst many others . |
| 20 | That is neither right or wrong ; we both have an interest and both want to be in on the decision . |
| 21 | That is not selflessness or goodness . |
| 22 | That is not standards or objectivity , but giving in to the usual pressures from the National Union of Teachers and NALGO , to which Labour Members always give in . |
| 23 | That is not democracy or power to the people — it is all power to an autarchy of unaccountable conservative central bankers . |
| 24 | That is why rice and pasta are such useful things to have in the store cupboard , because you can mix them with anything . |
| 25 | Cold-blooded animals have to ‘ warm up ’ before they can be fully active ; that is why lizards and snakes bask in the sun in temperate climates . |
| 26 | That is why Cable & Wireless 's subsidiary , Mercury , has recently sent forty payphones for British Forces to use at bases in Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum . |
| 28 | Two is n't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order , and now they were living in hotels . |
| 29 | Actually most is either hills or mountains , if you look actually you can draw a picture of a hill or a mountain , but most , most of the land er hills or mountains which is very interesting is n't it ? |