Example sentences of "be [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 2 | The rooms are spacious and light with large windows . |
| 3 | The rooms are spacious and light with refreshing colour schemes . |
| 4 | The public rooms are spacious and light include lounge area , cocktail bar complete with piano , Café Barbizon where you can obtain tempting snacks and afternoon tea and cakes whilst their restaurant offers a high standard of service and cuisine specialising in both local and international dishes . |
| 5 | The price on his head is high — higher than ever , currently at a cool three million dollars — and the hit squads are alert and patient . |
| 6 | ‘ The economic circumstances are right and recovery is on the way . |
| 7 | 5.3 PSD methods are student-centred and activity based and in relation to programme design , centres should arrange groups which are small enough to allow for practical activity . |
| 8 | Remains are scanty and conjecture has to take the place of evidence . |
| 9 | Two typical para-relations are para-hyponymy and para-incompatibility . |
| 10 | Their oxygen requirements are normal and blood systems are similar to those of other fish , except that the heart is larger and gill blood vessels are comparatively wide , allowing a faster circulation of blood . |
| 11 | He moves on , deeper , deeper , creeping down the greasy , slippery ladders to lower levels where luminous shamen weave and sway within the oily smoke of sulky fires , and vaults are low and crumbling . |
| 12 | When tariffs on imports are low and transport costs are moderate , domestic producers may face severe international competition . |
| 13 | If only it were possible to avoid these difficulties , and go island-hopping where they speak English , where the controllers are friendly and helpful , where all kinds of services are readily available , taxes are low and fuel plentiful . |
| 14 | If confidence is low , firms will not invest even if interest rates are low and borrowing is cheap . |
| 15 | Presently , growth forecasts are strong and inflation falling . |
| 16 | why is it important that the thighs are strong and light ? |
| 17 | The Nubian sandstones forming the plateau are permeable and water sinking into the sandstone may have been thrown out at the foot of its escarpments . |
| 18 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 19 | Yet democracy , both in ancient Greece and in the politics of the past two centuries , has never been achieved without a struggle , and that struggle has always been , in good part , a type of class struggle , even if it is very simply characterized , as it was by many Greeks , as a struggle of the many poor against the few who are rich and well-born . |
| 20 | In 1907 Sidney Webb , in a tract entitled ( significantly ) The Decline in the Birth Rate , wrote : ‘ In order that the population may be recruited from the self-controlled and foreseeing members of each class , rather than those who are feckless and improvident , we must alter the balance of remuneration in favour of the child-producing family ’ , and therefore he concluded that ‘ we shall indeed have to face the problem of the systematic ‘ endowment of motherhood ’ and place this most indispensable of all professions upon an honourable economic basis ’ ( Webb , 1907 ) . |
| 21 | the board are executive and decision making |
| 22 | Third , even where priorities are clear and performance is relatively unambiguous , what sanctions are available in the event of ‘ poor ’ performance ? |
| 23 | Bulls stand about 157cm and weigh on average 1,200kg ; cows are 136–140cm and 750–850kg . |
| 24 | Examining what is left provides reasonably firm evidence that long-term treatments with procaine are tonic and anti-depressant , and can produce beneficial skin changes . |
| 25 | In all this , there are perhaps a couple of things which look plausible when we compare the philosopher 's child with our mental picture ; Aristotle 's observation that children are immature and Mill 's suggestion that they might need protection . |
| 26 | Tariffs are high and credit facilities for vendors are normally controlled by the administration . |
| 27 | Rates of weathering are potentially highest where temperatures are high and rainfall is abundant . |
| 28 | Conversely , in an economy where energy costs are high and fuel conservation is the fashion , the expensive motor car with a high petrol consumption will tend to have a short life cycle , but the economy car will continue for years . |
| 29 | In Europe Christians everywhere know that they are in trouble because their churches are empty and attendance continues to decline . |
| 30 | In Class II species the centers perturb each other but the sites remain distinct , while in Class III species the sites are indistinguishable and electron delocalization is effectively complete . |