Example sentences of "[adj] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparisons with page 32 are inevitable ! |
| 2 | For students who have no second language , beginners ' courses in German and Spanish are available . |
| 3 | Second Language for Business units in French , German , Italian , Russian and Spanish are available at three levels ( beginners , intermediate and advanced ) . |
| 4 | Spanish are nice w nice girls |
| 5 | Brief details like that are meaningless ! |
| 6 | If , despite that , there is very little direct democracy in most contemporary societies , the reasons for that are political rather than practical or technical : those who occupy positions of power and authority simply do not want it , and actively resist any attempt to bring it into being . |
| 7 | Well as I 've said signs like that are illegal . |
| 8 | And I think problems like that are due to human irresponsibility ! |
| 9 | Er , associated with that are certain behaviours , typically vomiting , laxative abuse , erm , use of diuretics which are water tablets or excessive exercising . |
| 10 | But Britain 's latest ‘ fab five ’ Take That are proud of the squeaky-clean image that has won the hearts of millions of teenagers — and parents too . |
| 11 | I think , yeah , I think you need to be sometimes like that are awful . |
| 12 | The units make the forms of the diagrams effectively independent of B , and since C is assumed to be about 4B they can be used to include variations in C. Tanabe-Sugano diagrams can be used to assign spectra empirically ; they lead to the identification of allowed transitions , and very often the fit of the observed transition energies gives values of Δ/B; that are unambiguous . |
| 13 | Feelings like that are instinctive . |
| 14 | Every weekend now , tens of thousands , perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are taking tablets containing unknown substances , and God alone knows what the real long-term consequences of that are likely to be . |
| 15 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 16 | Draw up a list of 20 things you have never done that are silly but do n't cost much money and work your way down the list by doing one each day ( eg leave your car in the garage and hitch a lift , turn the daily newspaper into papier mâché , go to the shops wearing a funny hat , shake hands with the next 10 people you meet ) . |
| 17 | Now what happens here is that erm normally , you 'll have a , a er an endowment attached which erm has got a sum assured and that sum assured may be about six thousand say , and onto that are added bonuses . |
| 18 | All the boys in Take That are careful with money , three of them still live at home with mum — and their parents make cups of tea for the adoring fans who wait outside their homes . |
| 19 | ‘ Gestures like that are magnificent when you are out of work . ’ |
| 20 | The problem in terms purely of resourcing is if , if one does n't look after the not so seriously mentally ill they very rapidly c become the very seriously mentally ill with considerable financial resourcing problems and also enormous manpower problems because they do then tend to need twenty four hour close supervision nursing and not care in the community which can be done on a part-time basis and the implications of that are frightening . |
| 21 | Figures for 1971 are available on both bases and are given to indicate the potential disparity . |
| 22 | The Nigerian Curriculum Conference and the National Workshop on Primary Education which followed it in 1971 are important for a number of reasons : |
| 23 | The censuses of 1911 , 1951 , 1961 , and 1971 are basic sources on social class patterns of fertility . |
| 24 | Will he do what he can to ensure that as many Government services as possible are available at post offices ? |
| 25 | The RSC is keen that as many chemists as possible are familiar with communication techniques and that the profession is well represented in the ranks of the media . |
| 26 | The plants from countries with hot dry summers tend to put their roots down very deeply into the soil , especially if they are growing in rocky soil on exposed " hillsides , so containers with as much depth as possible are advisable . |
| 27 | Estimates of the size of this underclass vary hugely from about 5% to 50% of all the poor — 2m-15m people , of whom some two-thirds are black , a tenth Hispanic . |
| 28 | He found that only two-thirds are true circles : the rest are flattened circles , ellipses and egg-shapes , all made with relatively simple geometric construction and clearly deliberate . |
| 29 | An Invective against France , probably written around 1347 , opened with these words : As Dr Barnie points out , such lampoons show how ancient and persistent are national stereotypes : the English accused the French of sexual promiscuity , while the French assiduously propagated the idea that the English were violent and gluttonous drunkards , and that they all had tails . |
| 30 | Being smart and persistent are vital qualities in pursuing change , because whatever you want , you can be sure that someone , usually someone higher up the tree , is going to be against it , and is going to try to force their solution on you instead . |