Example sentences of "be [adj] and [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butane gas heaters are safer and cleaner , thanks to modern technology , but electric fan heaters coupled to a greenhouse space thermostat are simpler and almost as cost effective . |
| 2 | These shared or duplicated responsibilities are unavoidable and often in fact are desirable because the process is one of mutual monitoring which usually improves reliability . |
| 3 | Police said the assault , which occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning at Chesnut House in St James Drive , Bootle , had been brutal and apparently without motive . |
| 4 | They will help you not to feel isolated or depressed while you are ill and away from home . |
| 5 | In Harlem where Imamu originally lived with his alcoholic mother , all the people he hung around with and the people he meets on return visits to this area are black and then in Brooklyn with the Aimsley family , all the people in their street are also black . |
| 6 | I am sixteen and therefore in year eleven at high school . |
| 7 | It is a towering masterpiece , with a range of expression , a consistency of inspiration , and an overall sweep which , taken together , are irresistible and probably without parallel . |
| 8 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 9 | The event was supposed to be staged a couple of weeks back , but was postponed because Lewis was said to be unwell and still in America . |
| 10 | Later Byzantine columns were monolithic and usually of marble . |
| 11 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 12 | but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year |
| 13 | At appropriate stocking rates there is a natural tendency for oxygen to move from the atmosphere where the concentration is high , to the water where it is low and conversely for carbon dioxide to move from water with a higher concentration to the atmosphere where it is lower . |
| 14 | Ruth Hilali , who 's fifty and formerly from Worcester , but now of no fixed address , is charged with stealing more than six thousand pounds from the Kurdish Refugee Association and making a false statement to obtain a passport . |
| 15 | But this notion — that one set of activities is serious and therefore by implication another set must be non-serious — is a naive view , for it presupposes that first and second order experiences operate within the same frame and are therefore amenable to comparison . |
| 16 | The prison system in England and Wales , then , is creaking and close to collapse . |
| 17 | It would be a pity if reading replaced talking and writing — that is the fate of the ‘ book-worm ’ , the person who is happier and safer among books than among people . |
| 18 | Permed hair is thicker and easier to style than untreated hair and you wo n't have to worry about frizz if you handle it with care and use the right products . |
| 19 | The colour of most importance however , green , is freshest and brightest in spring . |
| 20 | The Chicontepec oil is onshore and close to infrastructure , but it is dogged with very low productivity sands , and covers such a large area that accurate prediction of the sweet spots is the only way to reduce an onerous number of wells . |
| 21 | I am restored and utterly at peace . |
| 22 | But , of course , it was n't my fault that my mother was pregnant and yet for years I felt that it was . |
| 23 | And there certainly was cream and more for tea . |
| 24 | Seems to me that there was some and then of course the Wave of Life |
| 25 | Central government intervention into public health , sanitation and housing was cautious and piecemeal in comparison with Chadwick 's conception of a centralized supervisory network . |
| 26 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 27 | She was ageless and even in age would , I knew , be careless . |
| 28 | I would like to express my thanks and appreciation for all the cards , letters and offers of help sent to wish David well when he was ill and then in sympathy when he died . |
| 29 | Sometimes you might even be lucky enough to be endowed with the qualities of the people you play — John Wayne , for example , was held up as being symbolic of everything that was good and right about America . |
| 30 | She was radiant and alone on Garda |