Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] and [adv] [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They will tell neighbours they are pregnant and even visit doctors with fake symptoms . |
| 2 | The many types of mycobacteria vary in their pathogenicity ; some are saprophytic and rarely cause disease , while others are potentially pathogenic , particularly in immunocompromised patients . |
| 3 | Nobody remarked on it because all the students are foreign and occasionally take trips home or go on sightseeing tours . |
| 4 | Within its own terms this book is successful , but one could suggest that those terms are restrictive and hardly do justice to the breadth and variety of Shakespeare 's style . |
| 5 | Carter are unlikely and entirely pop stars , the kind of phenom that could only happen here . |
| 6 | For example , the report appears to distinguish between ‘ genotoxic ’ substances , which are mutagenic and directly damage DNA , and ‘ non-genotoxic ’ or ‘ epigenetic ’ substances , which apparently act indirectly on the genome . |