Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun] when it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we have yet to explain why congruity with a verb 's bias has a bigger effect when it is paired with gender cue , since the availability of a gender cue would appear to make congruity a redundant cue . |
| 2 | The concept of black underachievement provides an even greater contrast when it is associated with ‘ trouble ’ , defined as indiscipline and truanting , and results in suspensions and local ‘ law and order ’ problems . |
| 3 | Cruttenden 's data also tend to confirm that congruity has a greater effect when it is paired with gender cue , which is the condition in which it would seem , a priori , to be less useful . |
| 4 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 5 | Most verbs which are used of situations where the object — talking strictly of the intensional level and not of the world referred to — does not change its properties ( between the narrow focus on the object phrase alone , and the wider view when it is construed with the verb and the adjective as in ( 22 ) ) will not be suitable ; if a property that might be expressed by an adjective could be present in the wider structural context , then its applicability will not normally be connected with the link between the verb and the noun phrase . |