Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Dogs are naturally social animals and it is very important that from birth every puppy learns how to fit in with its own family and other animals it lives with . |
| 2 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 3 | On the Thursdays in lab you have to work on your own and everybody 's doing different experiments and it is really — I mean , I dread Thursdays , because it is really worrying . |
| 4 | Consider , for example , a mechanical clock : its several cogwheels will all turn at different rates and it is almost an arbitrary decision to link some of these to ‘ hands ’ that tell us the passage of the seconds , minutes , hours , or lunar month . |
| 5 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 6 | Developing countries have their own specific economic , political and social requirements and it is often felt that the media should ‘ carry out positive development tasks ’ ; that they should accept restrictions if the state so desires and that they should be subordinate to the needs ( economic , cultural , political ) of a developing state . |
| 7 | The Manor is sited in pleasantly wooden grounds and it is here that Alford truly comes to life on Spring and August Bank Holiday weekends . |
| 8 | Education performs political , social , as well as economic functions and it is thus too important to be made the slave to the needs of the economy even though it has no option but to be its servant . |
| 9 | The Vienna Touring is framed prettily by lush gardens and it is about 100 yards from the beach , where changing cabins are provided and shady sun umbrellas are available at an extra charge payable locally . |
| 10 | Lists of these were regularly published in the Philosophical Transactions and it is highly probable that Miller , when he was well established at Chelsea , was involved in the selection of these . |
| 11 | How this requirement is implemented will obviously vary enormously with the level of disability of individual residents and it is normally more economical in staffing terms for there to be a fairly even level of disabilities among the residents of one unit . |
| 12 | Early studies suggested that relative mortality risks among female smokers were less than those of male smokers but it is now clear that these studies were comparing the death rates of a generation of male smokers with a generation of women amongst whom smoking was a much more recent phenomenon . |
| 13 | Some additional information has emerged but , unfortunately , mouse chromosomes have not responded well to the high resolution techniques developed for human chromosomes and it is only recently that a higher resolution idiogram has been published ( 14 ) . |
| 14 | The insurers now have groups of approved repairers and it is often easier for a customer to use those , than to go off and find their own repairer . |
| 15 | If a young woman is feeling fit and healthy , it is very tempting to skip the effort of going to the clinic , having to make an appointment long in advance and then waiting in long queues but it is extremely important to have regular checkups for the sake of both your health and that of your baby . |
| 16 | But this kind of rationalism largely yielded to empiricism with the rise of the Logical Positivists and it is therefore disconcerting to find that experience can not do its job . |
| 17 | All the same , signalmen can be a fund of unexpected tales and it is always interesting to hear their stories . |
| 18 | The use of hydrogen bonds , that is hydroxyl groups ( -OH ) ( see Appendix 1 ) to control adhesion at an interface is very common in living organisms and it is presumably a convenient method where the environment is continuously wet . |
| 19 | Many foods provide small amounts but it is especially rich in liver , kidney , raw green leafy vegetables and oranges |
| 20 | Climbing is second nature to all small felines and it is virtually impossible for a cat to switch off its urge to climb , even if it is punished for doing so . |
| 21 | It is difficult to give precise guidelines but it is now our practice to recommend that oral iron be given until the haemoglobion concentrations and red cell counts are normal , and that these are remeasured at about three monthly intervals for a year and further iron given as necessary . |
| 22 | It is a gradual process of which there will be intermediate phases and it is hardly surprising that in such instances we will be uncertain whether or not to admit that the infant has made the grade . |
| 23 | But it is generally more helpful to give meals for slimmers in single portions and it is very easy to multiply up the quantities , of course . |
| 24 | The wastelands are inhabited by all kinds of monstrous creatures and it is here that the armies of Chaos gather their strength . |
| 25 | However , lambs of 6-7 months can have considerable N. battus burdens and it is therefore doubtful if this age immunity is absolute . |
| 26 | No such distinction was known in the middle ages and it is essentially the creation of later administrators and writers . |
| 27 | This may be too strong ; it is possible to state " general rules " for the interpretation of some common provisions , but those rules are only rebuttable presumptions and it is generally possible to find authorities to support a different interpretation . |
| 28 | In practice when items of archaeological information , such as the date of the sculpture and its style , are taken into account , we can eliminate some quarries because they are not operational at that date or because we know the sculptors were working in certain places and it is highly improbable that they were using distant rather than local sources . |
| 29 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 30 | Maurice Melloul says ‘ Obvously , we only build this sort of special relationship with a limited number of selected suppliers but it is mutually beneficial . |