Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Camargue of the Rhône delta is quite unlike other French cattle : it is black or brown and is bred in feral herds known as manades . |
| 2 | All have sponsored rail investment in one form or another and are continuing to do so . |
| 3 | Affecting fibrous tissues and joints , especially of ankles when parts feel cold or numb and are better ( > ) cold applications . |
| 4 | Electrode pullers may be either electromagnetically or gravity-operated and are commercially available from a number of suppliers , Minor modification may be necessary in order to fit tubing of 1.0 mm diameter because most pullers are designed to accommodate the slightly larger , standard microelectrode capillary tubing . |
| 5 | This benefit can be direct or indirect and is sometimes referred to by lawyers as ‘ consideration ’ . |
| 6 | can be green or black and are a collection of aromatic seeds contained in a pod which must be split to release the full flavour . |
| 7 | The modern apartments consist of one bedroom which sleep 2–3 or 4 and are comfortably and attractively furnished , with private facilities . |
| 8 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 9 | This foundered in 1688 or 1689 and was also recently designated a protected wreck . |
| 10 | Secondly you must consider the environment within which the work is done ; is it based on PCs or is there a free choice of machines , will data files come from one program or many and are they the same type are just some of the immediate questions here . |
| 11 | Geometric in design , it is available in black/white , as shown here , or maroon/white and is height adjustable . |
| 12 | Since married men were normally exempt , youths in some areas might for this reason marry as young as fourteen or fifteen and be given a small piece of land by their parents to maintain themselves : the proliferation of very small peasant holdings in Denmark has been attributed to this factor . |
| 13 | Metro Saverstrip — only for journeys in West Yorkshire ; Metro DayRover — you can get as far as Manchester with this if you 're elderly or disabled and are permitted to take a dog or other authorized companion . |
| 14 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |
| 15 | Strategies in negotiation can be offensive or defensive and are likely to take account of previous strategies adopted by both sides . |
| 16 | Tumours were assessed as benign or malignant and were graded by degree of dysplasia ( benign ) or differentiation ( malignant ) . |
| 17 | The rural population must be low or dwindling and be extensively dependent on agricultural activity . |
| 18 | Such dosserets are cushion or cubiform and are often carved with a cross in the centre of each face or by a monogram ( 177 , 179 , 182 , 184 , 186 and PLATES 28 , 29 , 30 ) . |
| 19 | Casein joints set hard in a day or two and are more or less waterproof . |
| 20 | Each isolated farm has electricity , a newish car or two and is full of gadgets and gizmos . |
| 21 | Shildon said he would probably change his mind in a day or two and be itching to talk . |
| 22 | In this sense , everyone belongs to a culture or sub-culture and is ‘ acculturated ’ ; any distinction between ‘ cultured ’ and ‘ uncultured ’ represents a particular value-judgement within that culture . |
| 23 | getting intoxicated is always potentially dangerous : people may become more reckless than usual and be less able to deal with danger |
| 24 | Square planar and square pyramidal methane geometries are much less stable than tetrahedral and are in energy terms incapable of existence , and can only be ‘ examined ’ by calculation . |
| 25 | Frequently , the newer and more expensive designs prove , after a few years of use ( and a few hundred hapless patients ) , to give results substantially worse than this and are quietly withdrawn from the market despite initial optimism over their theoretical advantages . |
| 26 | But there must have been other reactive effects which were more subtly marked than this and were concealed from the fieldworker . |
| 27 | They rate their performance as a lot better than average and are particularly interested in giving as well as receiving pleasure . |
| 28 | a set of capital letters which are smaller than standard and are equal in size to the lower case letters for that typesize . |
| 29 | is milder than black and is best used with fish , white meats and delicate sauces , where both the flavour and appearance of black pepper would be inappropriate . |
| 30 | The Left of the Party held that the government was little better than fascist and was encouraging Germany and Italy . |