Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the goods are described to you as seconds , shopsoiled , slightly imperfect , if any phrase like that is used I think your own commonsense should tell you there 's something wrong with these goods and that presumably is the reason why they 're reduced in price . |
| 2 | And that essentially is the difference . |
| 3 | Erm , and that really is the end of , as it were , I beg your pardon , yes . |
| 4 | And that really is the reason I think for one of the reasons for P P G seven being brought out . |
| 5 | To maintain existing levels of service , and that was the the budget that was approved by the Policy Committee in November , but , with the rider that the erm , the the overall budget would be review reviewed in January in the light of the Revenue Support Grant Settlement , and that still is the position . |
| 6 | And memorable too was the dance of the Earth in her bloody red dress — rapacious and , equally , hunted . |
| 7 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 8 | And this really was the basis therefore of the first films , they were really demonstrations that pictures could move , and this was sufficient for people to pay a few pence to come in erm and look at the films . |
| 9 | And perfect too is the reception committee that tumbles out of the door as our tyres rasp on the gravel : two golden-haired children , two golden retrievers , and one golden wife . |
| 10 | The only feature of the city shared by rich and poor alike was the atmosphere , and as time went on the manufacturers stopped living next to their mills , as Robert Thornton does , and retreated further and further into the suburbs . |
| 11 | Besides the circular helix , much the best known naturally occurring helix and also the most interesting and beautiful mathematically is the concho-spiral , adopted in all coiled gastropod shells and some others such as the group of protozoans known as Foramenifera . |
| 12 | ‘ Point the hour hand at the sun , then halfway between the hand and twelve o'clock is the north — south line . ’ |