Example sentences of "[be] [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entrance and main public areas are spacious and tastefully furnished , and in the gardens are located a large outdoor swimming pool , snack bar and tennis courts . |
| 2 | It is full air-conditioned ( at the management 's discretion ) and its public rooms are spacious and tastefully furnished in typical Italian style . |
| 3 | The apartments were built only two years ago , and are spacious and attractively furnished . |
| 4 | All bedrooms are spacious and impeccably decorated , and the hotel 's swift and efficient service is renowned . |
| 5 | All bedrooms are twin bedded with a private loo and bath or shower , are spacious and therefore suitable for families and have a balcony and lake view . |
| 6 | In spite of Virtues 's dogma , cleanliness is neither essential nor effective against an established infestation , and gamma-benzene hexachloride or benzyl benzoate are preferable and more effective than either carbolic acid or tobacco . |
| 7 | The children who have gone to the country are much taller , stronger and better fed , they sleep longer and in every way they are alert and more easy to teach . |
| 8 | Since then it has turned up in Kenyan tobacco plantations where safety precautions are impractical and widely ignored . |
| 9 | Because these are short-term and rather non-specific behavioural changes , they must be regarded as forms of non-associative learning , but important to Kandel 's argument is that classical conditioning is also possible ; in this the unconditioned stimulus is a shock to the tail , and the conditioned stimulus a mild tactile stimulus to the siphon . |
| 10 | The results are terse and sharply etched , like the best line drawings . |
| 11 | World Bank and EC assistance has encouraged the expansion of ranching into areas which are unsuitable and easily degraded , the study found . |
| 12 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 13 | The truckle-bed had been narrow and hard , and she was profoundly unwilling to surrender herself to sleep . |
| 14 | Once recognised , they can claim , as they did in response to The Satanic Verses , that their world view and their power are divine and therefore unassailable . |
| 15 | Edith had been pregnant and alone , the salesman abandoning her when she had told him her condition . |
| 16 | ‘ I cry , sometimes I am strong and sometimes I burst into tears . |
| 17 | However , as Taylor goes on to point out , there are cogent and even forbidding explanations for the apparent neglect . |
| 18 | The songs are tuneful and well crafted , sometimes delicate in expression . |
| 19 | Critics treat male and female artists in a different way — as if women are emotional and highly strung and men are dour and tortured artists ! |
| 20 | People in some parts of the world assume that their basic human rights are inherent and seldom pause to question what they are or how to ensure that they will be available to future generations . |
| 21 | Melancholic : these are timid and easily frightened . |
| 22 | They are being sold as ‘ wolf fur ’ for about £400 in German shops , but are actually imported from the Far East where thousands of dogs are purpose-bred and then slaughtered , says the Animal Protection League . |
| 23 | Some of these can be expressed as a distance-decay function and indeed costs of migration may largely be a matter of distance as in the case of outmigration from island economies such as are found in the Caribbean or Oceania ; others are political and virtually insurmountable , such as national frontiers . |
| 24 | That should please the farmers — and Iris ; for a couple of weeks or more it had been dry and unusually mild and the land was thirsty . |
| 25 | performance will improve if goals are specific and jointly set |
| 26 | What these sounds mean is : I am alive and so are you . ’ |
| 27 | What these sounds mean , he thought , is : I am alive and so are you . |
| 28 | These are hollow and therefore light . |
| 29 | Those near the centre of the distribution are long and relatively narrow whereas those towards the tails are low and proportionately broader ( Fig. 3.7 ) . |
| 30 | Because workers are unemployed , their incomes are low and so aggregate demand for goods is depressed . |