Example sentences of "be [adj] and [adv] [verb] " 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 | Since then it has turned up in Kenyan tobacco plantations where safety precautions are impractical and widely ignored . |
| 6 | The results are terse and sharply etched , like the best line drawings . |
| 7 | World Bank and EC assistance has encouraged the expansion of ranching into areas which are unsuitable and easily degraded , the study found . |
| 8 | The songs are tuneful and well crafted , sometimes delicate in expression . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Melancholic : these are timid and easily frightened . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | performance will improve if goals are specific and jointly set |
| 14 | By contrast iron bodies are strong and usually do not fragment until they penetrate to 10km of the ground . |
| 15 | ‘ They will tell neighbours they are pregnant and even visit doctors with fake symptoms . |
| 16 | Tighten all the bulbs in their lampholders , and check that these are intact and fully enclose all metallic parts . |
| 17 | The questions are concise and well worded so as to avoid endless lists of fact gathering queries . |
| 18 | They are broad and slightly flattened with blunt tips , some may have a small distal directed hook at the tip . |
| 19 | Short repeating ostinatos can be very efficient in creating widely varying atmospheres according to whether they are placid and regularly moving or agitated , with an irregular rhythmic shape . |
| 20 | The fences start off small but are solid and brightly coloured , with lots of fillers , and the school is big enough for the largest horses . |
| 21 | When I visited Roehampton to prepare an article for the Times Educational Supplement , Dr Shipman expressed his hopes that the scheme would ‘ lead to an initial preparation for teaching that blends theory and practice in courses that are coherent and intellectually stretching ’ . |
| 22 | The graphics are clear and well defined with some excellent backgrounds , while the sound is suitably atmospheric . |
| 23 | to update provision to take account of SCOTVEC requirements for writing module descriptors as detailed in the document The National Certificate — Guidelines for Module Writers , to ensure that statements of national standards are clear and well formed . |
| 24 | Still pictures in freeze frame are clear and sharply defined . |
| 25 | Studies from the community are few and predominantly based on single practices . |
| 26 | The many types of mycobacteria vary in their pathogenicity ; some are saprophytic and rarely cause disease , while others are potentially pathogenic , particularly in immunocompromised patients . |
| 27 | In the diagrams the applied forces are linear and uniformly distributed for simplicity 's sake ; however this need not be the case . |
| 28 | The pig 's range is usually given as Java , Madura and Bawean , but you can subtract Madura now , since that 's been deforested and thus depigged ( de-everythinged , in fact ) . |
| 29 | However , as we have seen , these are non-renewable and rapidly running out . |
| 30 | Country houses that have lost their contents and are empty and even abandoned . |