Example sentences of "is [adj] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food is scarce and more often than not they go hungry . |
| 2 | She is alive and just as attractive as ever , so please do n't lose touch with this thing of beauty that is certainly a joy forever . |
| 3 | The first and obvious need is to turn the knowledge that HIV is alive and all too well , from the outset of infection , into a workable assay of the progress of disease . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't worry , Mrs Atkins , your husband is alive and perfectly well . ’ |
| 5 | Negative power is destructive and potentially very damaging to organisational efficiency . |
| 6 | seems to be producing more than just cereals and soups at the moment … the baby business is booming and so far they are all boys . |
| 7 | The carpet has obviously been in the family for years , too , and the Rembrandt is unrestored and almost completely black . |
| 8 | Thromboxane A 2 spontaneously rearranges to form thromboxane B 2 which is stable and considerably less potent ( Friedman et al , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | Much of it is awful and yet so technically good . |
| 10 | The female tuxedo is leaner and more finely honed than the male version , with slim-fitting , narrow-shouldered jackets . |
| 11 | With a bank deposit it is relatively easy for the holder to recover the money balance , risk is low and so also is the rate of return . |
| 12 | ‘ The importance of maintenance as a specialist element within the sphere of building is undeniable and yet so often we are portrayed as unprofessional and given little credence . |
| 13 | It is sonorous and therefore very suitable for making bells . |
| 14 | The information on a modern laser disc ( often called ‘ compact disc ’ , which is a pity , because the name is uninformative and also usually mispronounced with the stress on the first syllable ) is digital , stored in a series of tiny pits , each of which is either definitely there or definitely not there : there are no half measures . |
| 15 | Likewise , increase on the family front is possible and most probably in the form of a marriage . |
| 16 | However , Mill was against a secret ballot , Mill thought votes ought to be cast publicly and the reason for this is that he thought people ought to be voting on their view of what is right and so therefore they ought to be publicly accountable . |
| 17 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 18 | It is not that the outlawing of all war apart from the overwhelming necessities of self-defence is unrealistic and therefore inevitably unefficacious as a means for controlling force , but rather that it runs counter to the sort of moral consensus on which the ethical authority of international law could be based . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |
| 20 | Recurrent and continuing education is unplanned and only spasmodically available . |
| 21 | a so and so , er maths is crap and so on and you know , that 's that 's going to make this into something that we would n't want |
| 22 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 23 | However , there are fluctuations superimposed on this ; i.e. the flow within the mean circulation is unsteady and probably essentially turbulent . |
| 24 | It is interesting and perhaps methodologically important that the Conversation Analytic approach tentatively provides support for the " we code " / " they code " distinction , independently of " given " notions of " we " and " they " . |
| 25 | However , there is another and potentially more important role which some of the clearinghouses are competent to assume , and this is to assess and evaluate the information and material that passes through their hands . |
| 26 | It is simple and rarely deeply moulded . |
| 27 | It is simple and less obviously buttressed than French counterparts . |
| 28 | If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) . |
| 29 | Design a message that is ambiguous and clearly so ; that is imprecise and precisely so . |
| 30 | The writing is straightforward and generally very accessible , although it is sometimes prone to metaphorical entanglements in discussions of the big picture , Spider lovers will enjoy an amazing abundance of spidery puns ; the title is only the beginning . |