Example sentences of "be [adj] and [adv] [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If your business is large , your requirements may be complicated and therefore need discussion and planning . |
| 4 | Both types of albino child are photophobic , that is , they will be distressed and even suffer pain when in bright light and most will wear dark glasses to alleviate this . |
| 5 | These are not themes which will become out of date but they are timeless which means that this novel will still be ready and still have relevance in the future . |
| 6 | If taxes are raised to finance the spending , the policy will still be expansionary and so reduce unemployment so long as the taxes raised do not exceed the increase in government spending by a certain amount . |
| 7 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 8 | 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 . |