Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [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 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 .
7 He spent some time in the Navy , worked in light engineering and is a watchmaker to trade .
8 Which say have er retire in dignity and comfort , that 's the difference between being an old man and being a gentleman .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 ? ’
13 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 .
14 The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals .
15 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 .
16 He was always available to the press for an instant comment and was a politician in his own right .
17 He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn .
18 The series 3 , 2 , 1 is known as graphic form and is a time honoured layout for newsprint .
19 This lexicon contains over 70,000 words and is a combination of the Text710 dictionary and words from the ( training ) LOB corpus .
20 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 " .
21 She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’
22 He is married with three children and is a member of the Felixstowe Ferry golf club .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 " .
27 The Institute of Geological Sciences was formed by the incorporation of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology with the Overseas Geological Surveys and is a constituent body of the Natural Environment Research Council .
28 This is possibly the most difficult of all skills and is a lifetime 's study .
29 He had visited many nations and was a Greek not only in language , but in soul .
30 Erm and in due course , they are hoping , that body is hoping to extend not just to independent schools but to all schools and be a design and technology education association for all schools .
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