Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It would have been simpler and more effective , he wrote , to lock the doors and seal up the entrances , simpler and more effective and cheaper than manning the whole building . |
| 6 | Maintaining your new figure has never been simpler or more effective . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , as Taylor goes on to point out , there are cogent and even forbidding explanations for the apparent neglect . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 13 | These are hollow and therefore light . |
| 14 | Because workers are unemployed , their incomes are low and so aggregate demand for goods is depressed . |
| 15 | They are strong and reasonably easy to work with but do n't always produce natural looking ponds . |
| 16 | But beyond this , other methods are possible and perhaps valuable . |
| 17 | The new law also provides a simple and straightforward legal framework for the foundation of postgraduate courses , which have so far been weak and virtually non-existent . |
| 18 | However , this , of necessity , raises questions about issues which are controversial and politically sensitive ; it is these issues which will confront the future citizen . |
| 19 | It is perhaps fair to say that while the balances are maintained , we are on the whole more conscious of evil as an objective power and of good as a subjective impulse ; Mordor and ‘ the Shadow ’ are nearer and more visible than the Valar or ‘ luck ’ . |
| 20 | As a consequence , such people are weak and potentially exploitable recipients of service . |
| 21 | As a result , many actions that presidents allow to happen are covert and frequently illegal , usually concealed under a cover of wanting to help another country defeat Communism . |
| 22 | The European Court has stated that the concept of abuse is to be assessed by determining whether an undertaking in a dominant position ‘ has made use of the opportunities arising out of its dominant position in such a way as to reap trading benefits which it would not have reaped if there had been normal and sufficiently effective competition ’ . |
| 23 | However , the very fact that they are mass-produced and relatively cheap means that they are too frequently seen . |
| 24 | Clean sounds are rich and very varied . |
| 25 | London 's capital markets and financial services have grown vigorously because they are innovative and highly competitive . |
| 26 | Those at Rye Harbour and Northpoint Beach , Rye are extensive and largely undisturbed , although again there is strong pressure for recreational use ; that at Northpoint Beach is to be connected to the River Rother and used as a yacht basin . |
| 27 | The wooden gates to Drachenfels are solid and slightly ajar . |
| 28 | Electronics are simpler and more reliable . |
| 29 | More and more people are turning to tablets to help them improve the quality of their sleep but , as you will see , there are simpler and more natural methods which are , at the same time , far more effective . |
| 30 | Points to make in the context of this table are , again , the very large turnover involved and the fact that profit margins are healthier and more stable than in the tour operator case . |