Example sentences of "and [adj] is [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Brook talked about that central game of dice that Yudishthira plays , ‘ an ordinary , everyday action … it also has overtones , through the poetic to the metaphysical and the supernatural , and this is just as in Shakespeare .
2 In contrast , overweight people seem to get much less strong and effective stop signals from the body , and this is largely because of the other factor , the major clue , which our eating-behaviour expert would be using in his ‘ guess who 's overweight ’ game .
3 However , serum triglyceride levels did not prove to be a significant factor for coronary heart disease in this multivariate analysis and this is probably because of the correction made for the inverse relationship between triglycerides and HDL .
4 The pellets of diurnal predators contain less bone , often no more than 5–10 per cent , and this is apparently because of the much greater efficiency of their digestive processes ( see below ) .
5 There are few other references to Drumcree in early documents and this is possibly because for certain periods it was absorbed in Kilmore .
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