Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | This should be a rewarding and therefore a motivating experience if the learner does come away from it with a feeling of achievement . |
3 | That in itself may be a messy and therefore a smelly business . |
4 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
5 | Well the tower is er I 'm not quite sure about the exact height of it it 's I think it 's a hundred and over a hundred and fifty feet high er the to the top of the dome I think it 's a hundred and fifty three feet high to the top of the dome . |
6 | However , questioning the medical professional is a difficult and often a daunting task , given their present high social status . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | This is an important and also a difficult point , so let me try to make it clearer . |