Example sentences of "be [adv] [art] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the speechreader , magazines , newspapers , libraries , timetables , maps and books in general are not a luxury but a necessity . |
| 2 | Placed next to each other , the documents are both a territorial and a political contradiction ; one is proof of the existence of Israel , the other carries with it the dream of Palestine . |
| 3 | And in labelling the former causes ‘ accidents ’ , Plekhanov implies that they are both an unpredictable and a comparatively unimportant part of the explanation of the course of historical events . |
| 4 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 5 | It may well be the case — as some commentators have observed , perhaps unduly cynically — that the economic and political situation in 1979 was such that it mattered little what the government tried to control as long as they showed determination and resolve to control something ; the money supply happened to be both a convenient and a relevant variable at that time . |
| 6 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 7 | A new regulatory system to react to qualified audit reports would be both an excessive and a less effective response . |
| 8 | There is a mar if you got a two two for a piece of course work , ok , it would easily get an equivalent two two in an exam would be the eq would be about a third or a pass , yeah ? |
| 9 | Being both an exotic and a carnivore , it has started out with a double disadvantage , and sections of the rural population hate it with an intensity normally reserved for foxes or , worse , polecats . |
| 10 | Cos there 's only a red or a blue in there , so if I |
| 11 | Not that that 's necessarily a good or a bad thing . |
| 12 | This , then , is not a static but a dynamic view of early English prosodies ; its theoretical breadth and scope is wide , and its empirical procedures sound ; it is innovative and challenging ; and it also forms a vital teaching text . |
| 13 | To ‘ put myself in your place ’ , to ‘ see your point of view ’ and ‘ understand how you feel ’ , is not a moral but a cognitive act , but of what sort ? |
| 14 | On the present analysis , moving to the viewpoints of other persons is not in itself a moral act , any more than is temporal viewpoint-shifting , so that a reduced capacity for either is not a moral but a cognitive defect . |
| 15 | The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ . |
| 16 | She is not an incompetent but a degenerate . |
| 17 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 18 | There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight . |
| 19 | There 's still a one and a half hour gap to be accounted for , and any link between Pinder and Dominic Wetherby would change the emphasis completely . |
| 20 | That is partly a technical and a psychological matter . |
| 21 | Editing is both a good and a bad thing in a sense . |
| 22 | In the English perception , empiricism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term . |
| 23 | ‘ Ultra Violet ’ is both a brave and a foolhardy step . |
| 24 | It is both a biological and a psychological experience and is influenced by factors such as age , sex , personality and previous experience and expectations . |
| 25 | In particular , it accepts his claim that comprehension is both an integrative and a constructive process . |
| 26 | There is both an exultant and a suffering note in the return of the destructive dove which is also the Christian bird of Incarnation whose message for both individual and society , parish and city , is driven home in the famous anthem passage when ‘ The dove descending breaks the air . ’ |
| 27 | Like power , money as it stands is neither a good nor a bad commodity . |
| 28 | If it is accepted that ability to consume is the major determinant and indicator of economic status — and that is implicit in the common concern over the ‘ standard of living ’ of different groups in society — then the conclusion must be that retirement is only one of a number of factors that affect economic status , and retirement alone is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for economic dependency . |
| 29 | It is neither a physical nor a psychological attraction . |
| 30 | It is neither a desirable nor a necessary product . |