Example sentences of "be a [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a long and rather pointless debate on this question . |
| 2 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
| 3 | Peter clearly took to heart what must have been a challenging and potentially testing message . |
| 4 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been a good and very practical learning experience for the class . ’ |
| 6 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 7 | The Evergreens had been a large and comfortably rustic dwelling , too big and rambling to be a house but too small and unpretentious to be a mansion . |
| 8 | Teldec have provided the work with a particularly spacious and powerful recording and the Frankfurt players seem determined to end in royal style what has been a fine and unusually wide-ranging cycle of Bruckner symphony recordings . |
| 9 | After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise . |
| 10 | Frame had since 1961 been a dynamic and highly successful liaison officer , and could reasonably have been expected to serve the BDDA for several more years . |
| 11 | Once again , our ignorance is very great ; but wherever we go in Europe , we find traces of what seems to have been a widespread and quite accepted practice , before the papal reform and the insistence on celibacy . |
| 12 | The advent of Edna into the household had been a miraculous and totally unexpected blessing , if such a word could be applied to what had become a devastating situation . |
| 13 | While on the part of the state there has been a continual and almost unlimited welcome for the mining multinationals , there has been an increasing sophistication in the response by communities confronted by them . |
| 14 | In our case I believe this stems both from the traditions of our company and also from the fact that we are a technical and scientifically based company : we therefore have the respect for the individual and the respect for novel ideas emanating from others that is a feature of the scientific method . |
| 15 | The other argument says that we are a higher and more socialised form of beast and that our urges are informed by something more subtle than base instinct . |
| 16 | Management buyouts are a new and rapidly growing means of company takeover and new firm formation . |
| 17 | ( First Edition ) LOAN SHARKS enticing people into debt , then inflicting violence on them when they fail to pay 100 per cent interest rates , are a growing and deeply disturbing aspect of inner-city poverty , a conference was told yesterday . |
| 18 | ( Adopts sarcastic tone ) The Levellers are a crusty and so are we . |
| 19 | Although they are a larger and less tightly-knit group , this might well also apply to agency secretarial workers . |
| 20 | Although pupils with little or no sight will , with training , be able to cope with a variety of environmental situations and even obstacles such as odd chairs , waste-paper baskets or sharp-cornered pieces of furniture scattered or left about in unexpected places , these are an unnecessary and possibly harmful source of trouble for those with visual problems . |
| 21 | Whereas the recruitment of comfort women — some of whom had been as young as 12 years of age — had previously been acknowledged by Japan , no proof had previously been uncovered that the practice had been an official and systematically imposed policy . |
| 22 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 23 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 24 | There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position . |
| 25 | On the political left a journal like Marxism Today claims that there has been an underlying and probably permanent shift to anti-socialist values . |
| 26 | Mehmed II , however , angered because Molla Yegan had been an active and very vocal opponent of the siege , retorted that it was his sword , not Molla Yegan 's prayers , which had achieved the victory . |
| 27 | It will be appreciated that something less than the sanctity which attaches to completion in England exists in France … to resort to the courts to enforce a contract would be a rare and tediously long process and is hardly considered in textbooks as a remedy . |
| 28 | It might be felt that this is not perhaps the set of circumstances in which ignoring ail Continental experience would seem to be a logical and easily justified decision . |
| 29 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 30 | But this must be a cautious and overly optimistic conclusion . |