Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Jim Payne of the SSGA said : ‘ The continued use of a formula based on the end price of a product , whether this price is profitable or loss-making is fundamentally flawed . |
| 2 | In Israel , by sharp contrast , anything suggesting the sexual or sensual is strictly banned from the worship of God — as this chapter and chapter 15 make plain . |
| 3 | We 're not likely to experience such treacherous driving conditions many more times this year , but the benefits of all-wheel drive in the wet or dry are still undeniable . |
| 4 | Twenty-five years ago , during a period of full employment , employers may sometimes have been right to assume that those who were unemployed or redundant were less effective than those who held down a job . |
| 5 | But the difficulties the Eritreans face in educating both old and young are still formidable . |
| 6 | THE BATTLE FOR MARKET SHARE To attract new investment , tax havens old and new are increasingly aiming to offer users specific tailored benefits |
| 7 | I 'd say it was a dog but it 's very , very old and that 's as much as I can tell . |
| 8 | The old and lonely are very vulnerable , and if you have sounded detached , preoccupied , or hurried during the conversation they can easily feel hurt and rejected ; and that hurt can be like an emotional graze that will remain painful until you are able to see them again and heal it . |
| 9 | That individuals and groups should feel free and unintimidated is certainly a necessary condition of free discussion , free decision-making and free consent ; but it is not a sufficient condition . |
| 10 | Of Weber 's four types of action , only zweckrational and wertrational were characteristically modern . |
| 11 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |
| 12 | In another sense , the boundaries between public and private are increasingly difficult to maintain . |
| 13 | So if public and private are increasingly converging in institutional form and environmental challenges , and many of the tasks are similar , what is the analytical distinction between the two forms of management ? |
| 14 | But the division between public and private is very ambiguous and can not be drawn simply by examining the size of the public sector in the economy and assuming this defines the limit of state influence . |
| 15 | While the outcome of the battle between public and private is far off , there is no doubt that during the phase of conflict the viewer is the winner . |
| 16 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 17 | That means the difference between leaded and unleaded is now ( 22p ) twenty two pence a gallon . |
| 18 | The systems , , graphical user interfaces , the concept of database management systems , repositories of information which are accessible and shareable are really taken for granted in many organizations . |
| 19 | ‘ How come , ’ he asks , ‘ that human beings whose contacts with the world are brief and personal and limited are nevertheless able to know as much as they do ? ’ |
| 20 | As the outside and upper are also designed with weight rather than durability in mind , unless you are exceptionally light on your feet you would have to be either foolish or wealthy to train in a pair of racers . |
| 21 | The first on its own would have been near-ideal — its Mozart-connection as real and fruitful was fatally abstract . |
| 22 | For a long period real property was only liable to certain of the debts of its deceased owner : chattels real and personal were always liable to all the debts of a deceased person which survived his death . |
| 23 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 24 | Their laboratory is tiny and that 's always the mark of a good brewery . ’ |
| 25 | But each station is autonomous and some are more music-oriented than others . |
| 26 | Nowadays the island is more developed but this is still a favourite and convenient ‘ watering hole ’ . |
| 27 | In some cultures , older people are deprived of esteem , suffer severe neglect and , in extreme cases , the frail and weak are simply left to die . |
| 28 | That is when we realised that the materialistic gap between the rich and poor was indeed nothing compared to the wide gulf in understanding , and that the understanding of health problems in this country would take a long painstaking process of re-accumulating the evidence . |
| 29 | A study by an informal Majlis committee , reported in the Guardian of Aug. 5 , found that the gulf between rich and poor was almost as wide as before the 1979 revolution . |
| 30 | For comparison , in Britain , at the end of the 1970s , the gap between rich and poor was considerably wider than that in Hungary or Poland , and has widened further since . |