Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I felt we had to find and develop talk personalities who could be entertaining as well as erudite . |
| 32 | Porter then develops the argument that the presence of interrelationships between SBUs implies that strategies must be broader than simply build , hold or divest . |
| 33 | The teachers tried to put life into our lessons and some of the people in my form were trying to be funny as well . |
| 34 | But the good news is , with the aid of these space age products , it 's possible to be prettier than ever before . |
| 35 | Ieuan Evans , as Scots know to their cost , can be elusive as well as opportunist and quick . |
| 36 | We thought … well , maybe you 'd be interested as well . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Hmm , ’ Janice in a tone that suggested that she was really trying to be interested as well as sound it . |
| 38 | ‘ An electric sports car whose exciting styling , 80mph top speed and 6secs 0–60mph time prove that battery power can be exciting as well as green ’ |
| 39 | The true state of affairs is unlikely to be clear until more and better quality deep seismic data become available . |
| 40 | You 'd sit at the gate for ages in , in the hope that the road would be clear as well . |
| 41 | While the table shows that the worst graduate unemployment in 1984 was among the arts ( other than languages ) group , it also shows that scientists were more likely to be unemployed than either social studies or language graduates ( social studies here includes business , accountancy and law ) . |
| 42 | It would be foolish as well as useless , he said , to worry about how to cope with tomorrow when there is quite enough to cope with today . |
| 43 | revolution 's got ta be violent as well . |
| 44 | You have to get angry , you have to be violent because otherwise what 's the point ? |
| 45 | It 's got to be consistent as well |
| 46 | The management of innovation efforts , particularly in terminating activities that do not make business sense , can be delicate as well as time-consuming — the more so since administrative fiat is not an acceptable solution . |
| 47 | If the players really impress you with their heckling and barracking of the puppets ( and they 'll have to be witty as well as abusive ) , the puppets will eventually break off their performance , perhaps concluding with an important tip about a major location within the dungeons ( if the players did exceptionally well ) . |
| 48 | It would be bigger than both of them . |
| 49 | WELLINGTON — The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica threatens to be bigger than ever this year , according to New Zealand scientists , writes David Barber . |
| 50 | The greatest mass a white dwarf can have is 1–44 times the Sun 's mass ; neutron stars can not be heavier than about two solar masses . |
| 51 | Well that 's all gon na be extra as well . |
| 52 | Over-zealous expansion may be counter-productive as well as burdensome : a good school may cease to be a good school if its classes are overflowing and its playgrounds full of makeshift accommodation . |
| 53 | If , if as I understand it , it 's a matter of law , and the practice will be much as just suggested , is that a correct er , interpretation . |
| 54 | A particularly difficult problem is the passage of fragments down the cystic duct ; provided these fragments pass into the common bile duct endoscopic sphincterotomy successfully manages the situation ( patient VII , XI ) , but if the stone remains in the cystic duct removal can be impossible as even the smallest scope or basket will not dislodge the stone ( patient XII ) . |
| 55 | They also claimed that a national referendum would be impossible when so much of the country was under rebel control . |
| 56 | ‘ You are asking me to be clairvoyant as well as indiscreet . |
| 57 | But this irony can be playful as well as belittling ; it can be critically constructive as well as destructive . |
| 58 | There is in many societies a strong economic , political and psychic advantage in having male children , so the proposition of preventing any births , precludes that possibility , and those benefits are perceived to be real as soon as the ( male ) child is born . |
| 59 | I 'll be fine as soon as I 've had some breakfast . ’ |
| 60 | Well that 'd be fine because then it means that you 've got either you 've got your back in |