Example sentences of "be [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emptiness can be devastating and very stressful . |
| 2 | The beam of electrons can only pass through a vacuum so the specimen(s) must be dry and therefore not alive . |
| 3 | I have long , naturally curly hair which always seems to be dry and often goes frizzy . |
| 4 | Discussing the implementation of partnership in validation , the Sociological Studies Board , for example , heard concern about the ‘ apparent lack of sympathy which may exist in institutions ’ internal monitoring and validation procedures to academic developments in sociology , in that the views expressed may be harsher and more inhibiting than those expressed by the Board' . |
| 5 | Though she could never let him know it , he already possessed her heart ; if she were to give herself to him body and soul , at least the memories would be rich and ultimately fulfilling . |
| 6 | Would they be tidier and more accessible hung on pegboards ? |
| 7 | Not only will the fish be happier , more colourful and likely to breed , but it will be healthier and less disease-prone if kept in its natural state . |
| 8 | Women in the trade unions are advising that unless 15 years of trade-union equality policies are negotiated into practice , any market-led advantages are likely to be short-term and easily reversible . |
| 9 | ‘ At times he can be shy and perhaps … ’ |
| 10 | And the sponges had been known to move and not be right and even today they 've when they 've had this er what is it , this er operation for it they 've conceived after have n't they ? |
| 11 | So far as the main thrust of the honourable gentleman 's question is concerned er he will know that we believe it to be right and indeed in the interests of all the people in Northern Ireland that the British and Irish government should work closely together . |
| 12 | It offered the chance to be melodic and even funky within the context of the group , but still powerful and aggressive . ’ |
| 13 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
| 14 | As a result of these measures , the river dolphin population now appears to be stabilising and even increasing , but the dolphin is still extremely vulnerable and needs continued surveillance at both national and international levels . |
| 15 | Being a forward-thinking ‘ man of science ’ it seems highly probable that our present-day Darwin would be computer-literate and certainly a user of word processors . |
| 16 | It has not proved straightforward to obtain the services of appropriate staff , and although work has now commenced in each of the areas mentioned , it is difficult to predict when development will be complete and thus give a firm date as to when information will be available to allow colleges to plan for the introduction of new courses in session 1989–90 . |
| 17 | After all , of course , negotiations would be possible and already the French claimed that with an estimated eight to ten thousand dead , Vietminh resistance was weakening . |
| 18 | They enable the text of bills to be much shorter than would otherwise be possible and so much time is saved on the discussions of new legislation . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'll be happy to be alive and perhaps he 'll help me to escape . ’ |
| 20 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 21 | More generally , prices could be sticky and yet the major implication of the flexible-price model developed in chapter 4 could still be true . |
| 22 | So a hurt child will be moody and often intensively provocative , testing out the validity of the proffered affection and expressing some of the pent-up anger and agony from the past . |
| 23 | The panel notes that ‘ it would be simpler and much more satisfactory if the procedure provided for the ‘ contrary case ’ to be presented'' . |
| 24 | Such a hybrid theory will almost certainly be simpler and more principled than a single amorphous and heterogeneous theory of semantics . |
| 25 | Summers drops hints about murder , or suicide , but the truth may be simpler and more terrible : Hoover was not a breath more than his job . |
| 26 | This document put forward the now stereotypical view that a population with a decreasing number of young people in it would be unprogressive and less vigorous than other nations . |
| 27 | But relations between masters and men could be friendly and mutually regarding even under the putting-out system . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'll be weak and easily tired at this stage , having just recovered consciousness . ’ |
| 29 | In section 4.3 you will see that there is some evidence that Venus is not as geologically active as the Earth , which could indicate a cool interior right down to any iron core , which could largely be solid and thus explain the small dipole moment . |
| 30 | However , nothing can be crueller and more oppressive than one without love . |