Example sentences of "[be] [adj] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An instructor Karen Gardner , 21 , was said to be stable and the other instructor , Anthony Mann , 23 , stable and comfortable . |
| 2 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 3 | With video the setting has to be thought about , the appearance of the characters has to be right and the plain fact of seeing as well as hearing means that it is much more difficult to establish credibility . |
| 4 | It is easy to debate in this House and reveal inherent contradictions between one side and the other and to make simplistic points about how one side must be right and the other wrong . |
| 5 | because I do n't speak to at all now and that ca n't be right and the reason I do n't is because I know the response I 'm gon na get , blank look |
| 6 | They have the talent to make an impact but the game has to be right and the circumstances have to be right to bring them in . |
| 7 | The advantages of unity over diversity , or collectivism over individualism , are assumed to be self-evident and the obvious totalitarian overtones are ignored . |
| 8 | The subject of the letter will not be technical and the assignment will involve writing as a private individual to an organisation . |
| 9 | It follows , then , that in an exchange rate union , in contrast to a currency union , monetary integration may not be complete and the conditions for the creation of monetary union may not be satisfied because of the persistence of uncertainty regarding intra-union exchange rates . |
| 10 | But ultimately it should be possible and the ‘ mysterious cat ’ will be mysterious no more . |
| 11 | Many variants will be possible and the level of detail will depend on the nature of the courses involved . |
| 12 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
| 13 | Half the patients at the centre will be private and the others will be contracted from local health authorities . |
| 14 | here 's hoping your birthday will be unfrogettable and the frog hopping about on it . |
| 15 | When a project researching into the cause of this disease carefully examined a group of men in London , recording their way of life and following their subsequent history for twenty years or until they died , the strongest risk factor for coronary heart disease was found to be smoking and the strongest protective factor the intake of cereal fibre . |
| 16 | In The Art Newspaper No. 16 March 1992 p. 6 we published the fears of some art historians that this exhibition might have been infiltrated by fakes ; in the event these fears have proved to be groundless and the show has been enjoying great success . |
| 17 | You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question . |
| 18 | Mr Edwards said : ‘ There was a time when bonuses would be generous and the person might work several months notice . |
| 19 | The main cloud base should be at least 2000 feet above the highest ground in the region , the freezing level must be high and the visibility should be good . |
| 20 | Some who are still young enough plan a baby without a husband , but the cost to the mother will be high and the cost to the child , who has no choice in the matter , may be even higher . |
| 21 | Midday temperatures can be high and the major causes of chick mortality are sunstroke and overheating . |
| 22 | Of the two tables nearby , one was occupied by a mixed group of men and women , all young and casually clad , the other by two men , one with a beard and guernsey sweater in which , in this warm room , he must be sweltering and the other with thinning hair , bespectacled and somehow familiar . |
| 23 | this area should be light and the richest possible golden brown . |
| 24 | Its eradication would inevitably be painful and the miseries of the people would be intense ; but they would even so be light compared with the miseries of eternal enslavement at the wheel of poverty and relief works . |
| 25 | Although the test is claimed to be culture-fair and the instructions were presented in BSL , performance was lower , giving weight to the view of Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) that deaf people are subject to a test effect which generally depresses scores . |
| 26 | For a moment that might have lasted hours she seemed to see herself , old and weak , and knew that now she could be free and the burden of life leave her wings for ever . |
| 27 | For an advance disclosure in a customer agreement to suffice it would probably , particularly in the case of an inexperienced customer , have to explain the circumstances in which the firm might receive and withhold information , for example , because it is behind a Chinese wall , the fact that the information will be price-sensitive and the consequences of non-disclosure for A. It would be difficult to draft a general clause predicting in advance all the possible eventualities , and whatever type of clause is used , further disclosure might be necessary as particular conflicts come to light . |
| 28 | Parent-child stimulation may be adequate and the relationship will be normal . |
| 29 | The Profitboss is reluctant to make judgements , knowing that his judgement could be wrong and the other person 's right . |
| 30 | With this approach the vocabulary can be infinite and the system requires significantly less training . |