Example sentences of "[det] is [adv] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn is not sure whether this is wonderfully modern and liberated of them , or rather depraved . |
| 2 | Any attempt to dodge this is professionally demeaning and destructive of a trustful caring relationship with the client . |
| 3 | This is thoroughly enjoyable and could not be more informative . |
| 4 | This is particularly paradoxical and revealing in the case of notions . |
| 5 | This is both anti-social and impractical . |
| 6 | A particularly effective dense white smoke is produced by exposing titanium tetrachloride to the atmosphere , but this is both toxic and corrosive . |
| 7 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |
| 8 | Although this is both extensive and varied by the standards of most of the human sciences , though perhaps not of history , what it illustrates is the difficulty of specifying what is to count as data beyond saying that it is whatever material that researchers need to work with in order to pursue their inquiries . |
| 9 | When auditors give qualified reports , they should refer to all material matters about which they have reservations , giving their reasons in each case together with a quantification of its effect on the financial statements if this is both relevant and practicable . |
| 10 | This is both true and irrelevant . |
| 11 | And this is both true and untrue . |
| 12 | This is both unpleasant and , in my view suspect , — who are these people and did they say everything that appears in print ? |
| 13 | Like Iris Murdoch with laughs , this is both profound and painfully funny — a perfect novel for the Nineties . |
| 14 | This is both unjust and totally immoral . |
| 15 | All of this is both sensible and encouraging . |
| 16 | This is both convenient and desirable ; it is part of the process of the whittling down of state power and interference , a cardinal item on the Thatcherite agenda . |
| 17 | This is completely true and I do n't deny a thing . |
| 18 | Now , of course , it may well be that er all this is completely crazy and it does n't work that way , and that my hypothesis about these things erm are , are quite wrong . |
| 19 | This is partially tissue-typed and the details are entered onto a central computer . |
| 20 | Currently the main source of permanent employment for women in West Belfast ‘ lucky ’ enough to get a job is public sector employment and this is generally part-time and low-paid . |
| 21 | This is partly philanthropic and partly economic — it may cost more to process the bill and collect the money than to write off the charge ! |
| 22 | But the sociological approach argues that this is inherently abstract and artificial , as if decisions taken within the negotiating arena somehow independently shape the course of events . |
| 23 | The goal of a local authority may be expressed as ‘ Serving the public ’ but this is rather vague and can be interpreted in any number of different ways ; |
| 24 | It is possible to use the arrow keys if you do not have a mouse but this is rather slow and tedious . |
| 25 | As a formal procedure , this is today rare and serves mainly to attract publicity to the cause in question . |
| 26 | Though this is probably fanciful and certainly without basis in contemporary record , Jaenberht 's alienation from Offa may have been very real , because of the suppression of Kentish independence after 784–5 and now the partition of his province . |
| 27 | But this is most unnecessary and cruel too . |
| 28 | They must ascertain the child 's wishes with regard to the provision of accommodation so far as this is reasonably practicable and consistent with his welfare ( s20(6) ) . |
| 29 | This is commendably democratic and can work perfectly well , but sometimes the intimacy of one-to-one conversation yields more interesting results for both parties . |
| 30 | This is wholly wrong and dangerous , because a faulty attribution leads to an unjust retribution ! |