Example sentences of "and [adj] be [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they erm kid themselves on that they do because they understand figures and money and that is n't business . |
| 2 | And that is why Misery is alive in the world today . |
| 3 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 4 | And that is why fashion at any level needs to capture the imagination , most particularly in a time of economic recession when the consumer is likely to have priorities more urgent than a new frock . |
| 5 | And that is why democracy is to be understood as a practice before it is conceived as a set of abstractions ; why it is a system of checks and balances before it is a set of principles ; why , as has been said , it is worth just two cheers , and no more . |
| 6 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 7 | And that is where time-out may prove useful — especially in tense , angry situations . |
| 8 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 9 | ‘ And that is usually club coach Chris Bailes 's car . |
| 10 | would like to say er er and that is though councillor urges us to be more totally er which went on the housing committee I think it would be very wrong of us to do that , leaving that er the vote at the end of that particular debate was unrelated to and er these democracy that 's er situation . |
| 11 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 12 | And that 's not repetition , it 's two different things . |
| 13 | ‘ The sheriff obviously wanted to set an example and that 's not justice . |
| 14 | Government policy we do n't build any housing , and therefore we 've got five thousand on the waiting list , and that 's why health is a major problem for a lot of people in this city , because we 're not building any houses , she knows that , and she and her party do nothing about it . |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody will listen , except the converted , the communists and that 's nae use . ’ |
| 16 | And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job . |
| 17 | It 's like , ‘ I luuurve you , I love you forever ’ ; and that 's just bullshit . |
| 18 | And that 's purely expression of opinion off the top of my head . |
| 19 | ‘ We wo n't , and that 's only part of what I want to tell you . |
| 20 | Yeah and that 's only wall |
| 21 | ‘ And that 's only hearsay ! |
| 22 | And that 's how Pelican managed to boost profits by an astonishing 173% to £357,000 in the six months to end September , despite a more pedestrian 35% rise in turnover to £3.83m . |
| 23 | And that was just birthday |
| 24 | I had a real tan to show off to everyone , when I got home , and that was tomorrow morning at 4.00am . |
| 25 | If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer . |
| 26 | ‘ For sheer joy , however , nothing beats devising your own programs … ’ he says , and this is not hyperbole . |
| 27 | It can end in silence , this being considered preferable to choosing an incorrect word or phrase , and this is clearly nonsense . |
| 28 | " And this is n't war ? |
| 29 | L3 increase markedly from mid-summer onwards and this is when disease appears . |
| 30 | Merely using stronger chemical bonds will have a small effect upon the strength of a cracked material by comparison with the stress concentrating effect of the crack and this is why diamond and sapphire are brittle and usually not especially strong , in spite of their hardness and high chemical bond energies . |