Example sentences of "be [adv] and [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years .
2 These will increase in efficiency , and with strong belief in hard work and more education , and with the organisation and money provided by Japan , and helped by cheaper labour , will be more and more a threat to all Western economies .
3 A ‘ good ’ book is basically and essentially a good story .
4 For Gramsci , law reflects economic relations , and it is eternally and generally a weapon of class domination , a classical Marxist position .
5 To argue that this is always and necessarily a result of ‘ conditioning ’ sounds like a feminist version of ‘ I do n't know what you housewives do all day ’ .
6 It is more and more a high tech event where the general public and even the family concerned have little , if any , role .
7 ‘ It is purely and simply a hospital , dedicated to healing and the relief of suffering , ’ Mr Brooke said .
8 Rather , like the rest of the Musgrave Park complex , it is purely and simply a hospital dedicated to healing and the relief of suffering .
9 It is simply and solely a political problem which politicians , political parties and Governments must set about solving through the political process .
10 Failure to pay moneys owed to the firm This is invariably and obviously a ground for expulsion .
11 The second view is that since we are always part of the knowledge equation , we can never know if there is a ‘ real ’ world , and hence knowledge is everywhere and always a human and social construction of , or placed upon , reality , whose form will vary ; the organization of knowledge is therefore artificial and relative .
12 But what happens if work is demonstrably and objectively a bad experience ?
13 Citizenship was obviously and visually a life , your whole life , with common dangers , common responsibilities , common enjoyments , and common ambitions …
14 By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ .
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