Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is our SW regional buyer and is a school teacher . |
| 2 | They form the backbone of his historical research and are a joy in themselves . |
| 3 | But this conclusion would be quite misleading , since the pattern described is typical of all British sites and is a reflection of the coins circulating in Britain throughout its occupation by the Romans ( fig. 25 ) . |
| 4 | He was a long way from being an alcoholic , but he was vulnerable to heavy social drinking and was a sucker for the old Scottish adage ‘ One For The Road ’ . |
| 5 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 6 | The section enables a licensing board to suspend a licence on the ground that the licence-holder is no longer a fit and proper person , or that the premises cause undue public nuisance or are a threat to public order or safety ( subs . |
| 7 | Born deaf , and now aged 30 , Shaw holds diplomas in chemical and electronic engineering and is a person with many hobbies including computer programming , car maintenance , photography squash , travel and reading . |
| 8 | He spent some time in the Navy , worked in light engineering and is a watchmaker to trade . |
| 9 | Which say have er retire in dignity and comfort , that 's the difference between being an old man and being a gentleman . |
| 10 | The lecturer 's task is not to act in the medieval sense and be a reader of scarce books , but to explain the difficult parts of an abstruse subject . |
| 11 | In addition , Peter Wood , who founded Direct Line and is a director of Royal Bank , is believed to be keen to see the company floated on the stock market . |
| 12 | He decided that for him to sit back and imagine , to follow a Bensonian way and be a dilettante among refined ideas , was an actual temptation . |
| 13 | How am I going to manage this house and be a wife you can be proud of , when I 've been brought up a different way , and everybody in the place knows it ? ’ |
| 14 | He is chairman of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland Association of the Institution of Civil Engineers and is a member of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry . |
| 15 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |
| 16 | Wilson , the son of a crofter , became one of the leading photographers of the Victorian era and was a pioneer in capturing the lives of ordinary men and women on camera . |
| 17 | He was always available to the press for an instant comment and was a politician in his own right . |
| 18 | He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn . |
| 19 | The series 3 , 2 , 1 is known as graphic form and is a time honoured layout for newsprint . |
| 20 | This lexicon contains over 70,000 words and is a combination of the Text710 dictionary and words from the ( training ) LOB corpus . |
| 21 | Utopian thought has often been denigrated for its idealism , yet I would argue that , unlike religion , " the sigh of the oppressed creature , the heart of a heartless world … the spirit of a spiritless situation … the opium of the people " ( Marx , Contribution to the Critique of Hegel 's philosophy of Right ) — Utopian thinking represents a conscious attempt to pose historical goals for human action and is a stimulant for action and change " the amphetamine of the people " . |
| 22 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 23 | This gender difference in mortality is not specific to later life but is a pattern which is observable at all ages ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 24 | He is married with three children and is a member of the Felixstowe Ferry golf club . |
| 25 | This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period . |
| 26 | Essentially CAFFE was a device that presented a diagnostic flow chart to a tradesman in the manner of a programmed book and was a form of computer-assisted learning . |
| 27 | At the consultation a leading psychiatrist , who was from the Society of Friends , insisted that the Devil had no objective reality but was a projection of our fears and insecurities . |
| 28 | Whether this abnormal response to the meal in these morbidly obese subjects is as a result of an intrinsic abnormality or is a consequence of pancreatic hypofunction seen in the morbidly obese is unclear . |
| 29 | A modest and kindly man , he took a great interest in technical education and was a governor of Owens College , Manchester , where in 1873 he endowed the Ramsbottom scholarship for young men in the locomotive department of LNWR . |
| 30 | Another myth preserved in magical papyri emphasised the power of the divine name and was a tale about Isis and Re , usually called " The Secret Name of Re " . |