Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enclosure may not have been the only or even the most potent of the forces increasing and impoverishing the rural proletariat in the southern and Midland counties , but it was impor-tant in bringing many to a total wage-dependency . |
| 2 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 3 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 4 | This should be a rewarding and therefore a motivating experience if the learner does come away from it with a feeling of achievement . |
| 5 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
| 6 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
| 7 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |
| 8 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 9 | However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status . |
| 10 | There is an awed and yet a sickly innocence , a pasteboard period falseness about the whole enterprise , and lines like lead which today make The Robe seem older , more quaint than silent movies . |
| 11 | This is an important and also a difficult point , so let me try to make it clearer . |
| 12 | It was more than the feudal relationship between king and king-duke , it was the overlapping and ultimately the conflict of two growing structures of government . ’ |
| 13 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
| 14 | Each of the organisations with which we had contact was a major or even the dominant local employer , and each was located in an area of high unemployment . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a left and then the right cut in so I had to straighten out . |