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 | Abrashes are usually found in monadic and village items , where only small amounts of yarn can be dyed at any one time , and are not a sign of inadequate craftsmanship . |
| 4 | The United Arab Emirates that I coached play in the Holtons Sonic Welding Intermediate League ( North ) and are not a national side at all . |
| 5 | The faecal pellets are very small , 200 x 100 Um ( Fretter & Graham , 1985 ) , and are not a useful indication of the food ingested . |
| 6 | Cost accounts are only prepared at the discretion of the directors of the company and are not a legal requirement . |
| 7 | And are not a desirable way to shop in the long run . |
| 8 | They represent the oesophageal body component of phase 3 of the migrating motor complex and are not a sign of oesophageal motor abnormalities . |
| 9 | Thus , reflux symptoms reflect poorly prolonged exposure of the oesophagus to acid and are not a reliable guide to acid injury of the oesophagus in PSS . |
| 10 | There are of course the court of protection costs which are to be calculated and are not a source of disagreement . |
| 11 | Plants are not necessary and are n't a natural occurrence in Lake Tanganyika , but if you do feel you want plant life in your tank try Java Fern and Anubias . |
| 12 | Cover-up sticks or creams and lighteners are too heavy and are invariably a different colour from the foundation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were first developed on seaplanes to encourage them to take off at lower speeds and are now a common feature on speedboats . |
| 15 | Nectarines are a smooth skinned variety of the fuzzy peach , and are usually a deeper , red-orange colour . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The big , dark backs slice the water and are often a sign that feeding will begin . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It will be clear from what I have already said that I myself do not have a Christology and am not a Christian . |
| 27 | ‘ I always stick to the limits and am not a boy racer , ’ he said . |
| 28 | We could go up there and be there a week . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |