Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] is [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using a spirit level check that each course is level and the wall is vertical . |
| 2 | The lower jaw is narrower than the upper jaw and because of this , the teeth become sharp on the outside edges of the upper molars and the inside edges of the lower molars . |
| 3 | The court to which an application for a stay of action should be made is the court in which that action is pending and the court can either stay the action or allow it to continue on such terms as it thinks fit ( s 285(2) ) . |
| 4 | This finding is interesting because the mutant allele retains the intact D β1 , J β 1.1 and J β 1.2 segments despite the 15-kb deletion , and therefore can potentially undergo extensive DJ or VDJ rearrangements . |
| 5 | This advantage is considerable since the bitter fraction may then be chemically manipulated to produce bitter iso a acids from the a acids and so provide a PIKE product which may be added towards the end of the boil or even afterwards . |
| 6 | This noise is worse than the Shed at Chelsea football club . |
| 7 | It is impossible to know if this story is true since the police have no record of the event . |
| 8 | If the saving in this direction is greater than the cost of the difference between 4·6 per cent and 0·2 per cent rejects , which are still cheap to produce , the compromise is worth adopting . |
| 9 | If the saving in this direction is greater than the cost of the difference between 4.6 per cent and 0.2 per cent rejects , which are still cheap to produce , the compromise is worth adopting . |
| 10 | But the mechanism of direct action is unknown and the subject remains highly contentious . |
| 11 | Payment of the mortgage allowance will be through the normal salaries system on a monthly/four-weekly basis and will be non-taxable , provided that the Inland Revenue is satisfied that the payments made are reasonable in amount . |
| 12 | This effect is temporary unless the feeling which is linked with the tears can be experienced : therapists would say re-experienced , since the deep pain triggering the tears is seldom about experiences happening in our day-to-day lives . |
| 13 | This key is invalid when the cursor is in the left-most character position of a field . |
| 14 | This key is invalid when the cursor is in the left-most character position of a field . |
| 15 | This figure is higher than the average sea level rise calculated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change because the east side of England is already slowly sinking due to geological movements . |
| 16 | This figure is greater than the overall sequence divergence between man and the great apes ( 32,33 ) , which suggests that the cluster duplication event occurred before these species diverged . |
| 17 | This figure is less than the average number of new company registrations every month . |
| 18 | This auction is unusual as the deceased had quite a lot of paintings of cats — we normally have more pictures of dogs at this particular auction . |
| 19 | This juxtaposition is impossible if the hairs are too close together , as on the scalp . |
| 20 | It is a tautology to say that English spelling is excellent because the reader can Jump around for clues on so many different levels ( semantic , visual , phonic , contextual , etymological , and so on ) . |
| 21 | But perhaps the Comtesse 's fried bread is better than the toast which traditionally accompanies Welsh Rabbit . |
| 22 | This question is important whether the client system be a social group , a committee of a functional community or a neighbourhood activist group . |
| 23 | This question is important because the list of variations can be extended indefinitely by adding a variety of further variations such as the colour of the container , the identity of the experimenter , the geographical location , and so on . |
| 24 | The Daily Mail proudly stated ‘ The Mighty ZETA : Limitless Fuel for Millions of Years ’ , the Daily Telegraph was only slightly more reticent : ‘ Hydrogen power 90 per cent certain ; Energy from sea in twenty years ; Machine will surpass heat of Sun ’ , and on television one scientist said ‘ This discovery is greater than the Russian Sputnik . ’ |
| 25 | If the motor is to operate at a higher speed then the induced voltage is larger and the applied voltage must also increase , so that current flows into the winding over the extended speed range . |
| 26 | Yet even this issue is complicated because the long term answer to the health problems associated with unemployment is probably to remove the distinction between paid employment and work . |
| 27 | This requirement is greater if the processing involved includes , for example , deciding who will teach a class , when the class will be taught , and to what room the class will be assigned . |
| 28 | However , this increasingly self-contained stratum is broader than the bureaucracy . |
| 29 | This difference is important when the motor is producing maximum ( pull-out ) torque , because any small increase in load causes the open-loop system to stall , whereas the closed.loop system merely slows to a lower speed ; the open.loop system is unstable , but the closed.loop system is stable . |
| 30 | Often this process is detrimental as the child starts to eat less and less savoury food . |