Example sentences of "and [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former can not be defined by any objective criteria and are largely a matter of personal taste , although if you wish to guarantee a reasonable resale value , it is crucial to make sure that your tastes coincide with more universally held views on aesthetic appeal . |
| 2 | Market loans account for some 26 per cent of banks ' sterling assets and are thus a major source of liquidity to individual banks . |
| 3 | Cover-up sticks or creams and lighteners are too heavy and are invariably a different colour from the foundation . |
| 4 | These people and their children differ from the so-called mixed race children only in terms of time , and are only a few generations removed from the point at which the mixture occurred . |
| 5 | They were first developed on seaplanes to encourage them to take off at lower speeds and are now a common feature on speedboats . |
| 6 | Nectarines are a smooth skinned variety of the fuzzy peach , and are usually a deeper , red-orange colour . |
| 7 | Publishers ' blurbs — i.e. the brief descriptions of books on the insides of dust covers — may sometimes be used as selection information by librarians , and are certainly a very important factor for readers selecting from library shelves , though they constitute at best a dubious selection instrument for librarians and readers alike . |
| 8 | Sir , it 's our submission and the evidence of what you have heard and what you will see , that the two sites proposed to be excluded from the greenbelt are functionally part of the village , and distinct from the land the open agricultural land to the north , and are visually a part of the village , unrelated to the open countryside to the north . |
| 9 | Patterns for these are readily available and are basically a petal of one double crochet , one half treble , and a few trebles , one half treble and one double crochet all into a chain loop behind the previous row of petals . |
| 10 | In shape , such apertures were roughly square , although circular openings began to appear in the early nineteenth century and are often a conspicuous feature of the brick-built Victorian estate barns of Cheshire . |
| 11 | Parent governors and those parents that help around the school are well motivated and are often a great source of feedback on how well the school is doing in the eyes of its adult audience . |
| 12 | The historical associations of the object of art noted by Benjamin ( 1973 ) pertain almost inevitably to any object which can be said to have passed through the hands of the ancestors , and are often a pivot around which social identity is constructed . |
| 13 | The big , dark backs slice the water and are often a sign that feeding will begin . |
| 14 | Bradshaw and Morgan demonstrate that children whose parents are in receipt of supplementary benefit suffer from deficiencies of iron and calcium and are below a basic clothing standard . |
| 15 | Vine fruits — that is , currants , sultanas and raisins — are full of invert sugars which are readily absorbed and assimilated by the body and are therefore a good supply of immediate energy . |
| 16 | Students , because their money is not tied up in big items such as mortgages , spend a lot on goods such as jeans , beer and cheap travel , and are therefore a target group . |
| 17 | We could go up there and be there a week . |
| 18 | If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised . |
| 19 | In this discussion , Poulantzas relies on a counterfactual claim to defend his view that the peasantry had a pertinent effect at the political level — namely Bonapartism — and were thus a distinct class . |
| 20 | Among other things , they had no fixed income , which was a definite stipulation , and were thus a definite threat to the older orders . |
| 21 | They would be repairing the skylight , I guessed correctly , and were probably a firm Nassim had shares in so he could fiddle the invoices for the insurance company . |
| 22 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 23 | People who were ‘ chronically sick ’ , on the other hand , were familiar : they had failed to benefit from medical treatment and were therefore a problem , usually best left to themselves or to others to cope with . |
| 24 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 25 | Like the ‘ Führer myth ’ , they had outlived their purpose even before the end of the Third Reich and were now a liability . |
| 26 | The Americans had already displaced the British in Saudi-Arabia and were now a major force in Iran . |
| 27 | I remember there was a period when no-one was speaking to anyone and I recall going to the island of Mustique and being there a few weeks just before the final split . |
| 28 | This architectural monstrosity was built of red brick in 1882 , and is over a hundred feet high . |
| 29 | The tunnel was extended in the nineteenth century , and is over a thousand yards long . |
| 30 | It occupies a long trench caused by a geological fault and is over a thousand feet deep , a much greater depth than the sea into which it debouches . |