Example sentences of "and [adj] be [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 No one doubts the toxic properties of lead above such levels , and that is not an issue in this debate .
2 That is our intention , er we are organizing briefing sessions for officers , and taking an approach which we want to get the information distributed to the workplace and that is clearly an area that we wan na develop .
3 Say half a knot — and that 's probably an over-estimate .
4 And that 's quite an achievement because the Gold Star award is only given to five per cent of resorts in the world .
5 However , I am discovering that the church probably not the community but more a communion and that 's perhaps an answer to what Nanette ?
6 Getting it out and that was just an armchair do n't know what they 'd do if they had to move the settee , but erm , that 's the difference in
7 And that was quite an experience .
8 For instance , if the searcher seeks documents on ‘ Greenhouses ’ and this is not an index term in the appropriate controlled indexing language , then documents on this topic will be difficult to retrieve directly .
9 A more aggressive attitude , of course , might counsel strategic acquisition and this is clearly an approach favoured by such major European publishers as the Maxwell Communications Corporation , Bertlesmann , Hachette and others .
10 Another area addressed by the survey was the additional assessment , which is a feature of all general SVQs at levels II and III , and this is clearly an issue of concern to some centres .
11 ‘ Darlington and SouthWest Durham pioneered the concept almost two years ago and this is just an extension of that , ’ said Mr Smith .
12 In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate .
13 Recent scientific research ( radio-isotope tracing and thermography ) has confirmed the existence of the body 's meridians , or energy channels , and this is where an acupuncturist inserts needles .
14 Although , along the lines suggested by Lyons or Ochs , we may be able to reduce the vagueness by providing lists of relevant contextual features , we do not seem to have available any theory that will predict the relevance of all such features , and this is perhaps an embarrassment to a definition that seems to rely on the notion of context .
15 These factors determine the orientation of chains relative to each other in the undiluted state , and this is essentially an interplay between the entropy and internal energy of the system which is expressed in the usual thermodynamic form
16 This has been dealt with above , and it stands on a quite different footing from the other forgeries in three important respects : first , it was never mentioned by Lanfranc ; second , it was not concerned with the claim to primacy but solely with the survival of the monastic community at Canterbury , and this was never an issue after 1070 ; and , third , unlike the forgeries with which we are now concerned , it was actually submitted to Rome and approved .
17 Sentence length is the number of words per sentence , word length Bjornsson defines as the percentage of words with more than six letters , and lix is simply an abbreviation of the Swedish word for readability index .
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