Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is used figuratively , it can mean to soar or to lift oneself up , and so to be arrogant in spirit . |
| 2 | And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field . |
| 3 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |
| 4 | Parties , on the other hand , are the indispensable means for achieving or retaining power and thus for being able to implement and administer , over long periods , complex social policies . |
| 5 | It was felt that high concentrations would be more likely to cause direct stimulation of the enteric endocrine cells and thus to be effective . |
| 6 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |
| 7 | On the other side of the Strada Stirbei Voda in the west of central Bucharest which has been converted from a charming street into a new boulevard , almost opposite the old and soon to be redundant opera-house , lies the huge shell of the new National Museum of Romanian History . |
| 8 | While this sort of dissatisfaction was being aired , the Manpower Services Commission , established in 1974 as an offshoot of the Department of Trade and Industry , was becoming increasingly important in the training of the young unemployed : the education service seemed more and more to be poor , mean and irrelevant when contrasted with the up-to-date and positively useful service of training . |
| 9 | Pray that God would inspire leaders to be bold and also to be flexible in the area of finances . |
| 10 | Canon Elvy encourages the churches to respect European values and also to be careful in distinguishing between the terms ‘ communication ’ , ‘ publicity ’ , ‘ image-building ’ and ‘ information ’ . |
| 11 | Staff need to be especially sensitive at such a time and also to be aware of legal formalities . |
| 12 | So this notion of the evidence of one 's senses is held by empiricists to be basic in epistemology , and also to be basic in the theory of meaning . |
| 13 | Although I had n't had as many fish as the bait fishers I was very pleased with the success and the quality and also with being afloat at sea in such idyllic circumstances . |
| 14 | And as is now widely recognised ( see Thomas Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ) , scientists , like other thinkers , tend to get stuck in particular conceptual frameworks , and hence to be blind to possible alternatives . |
| 15 | In fact , the skin is the body 's largest eliminating organ weighing about 3 kilograms , and far from being delicate , it is dynamically hard-working . |
| 16 | Far from being inclined towards self-righteousness , the Pharisees taught ‘ Be humble before all men ’ , and revered their teacher Hillel for his extreme humility ; and far from being judgemental , they urged ‘ Do not judge your fellow man until you are in his position ’ and ‘ Always judge others by the scale of merit ( that is , charitably ) ’ . |
| 17 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 18 | And far from being luxurious , it had all the style and panache of a Formica worktop . |
| 19 | They are fairly small , usually flat against the head , and far from being able to swivel or cock them , we can barely move them . |
| 20 | It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record . |
| 21 | It specifies this biological normality further , by linking it explicitly with marriage , lack of employment outside the home , and being in your twenties or thirties ; and implicitly with being heterosexual , middle class , and white . |
| 22 | You learn to be middle aged and then to be old aged . |
| 23 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 24 | Perhaps for lack of alternatives , the left in both countries is gambling on being allowed to fight fair elections , to take power if they win , and then to be able to implement real reforms in government . |
| 25 | You want me to be angry , which I ca n't be , and then to be soothing , which I can be . |
| 26 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 27 | They were er anybody that knows about moleskin , and there very heavy material er and apart from being hard-wearing , I suppose they , in the winter time , they gave them a wee bit of warmth in their legs etcetera . |
| 28 | The Government has invested £1.1m to make CD-Rom technology available in schools and apart from being available in many North-East schools our CD-Rom is widely used in schools as far afield as St Albans and London . |
| 29 | The content of the new journalism was appalling but at least it indicated that the masses could read and apart from being useful that offered the prospect that readers might move on to better things . |
| 30 | Clearly , this is not a desirable state of affairs , and apart from being unfair , will also prove upsetting to your dog . |