Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] [is] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is our SW regional buyer and is a school teacher . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He spent some time in the Navy , worked in light engineering and is a watchmaker to trade . |
| 4 | Each of those subjects is , in fact , a willing volunteer and is an extrovert by nature , and so allows himself to become part of the entertainment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The exponent n is the Avrami exponent and is an integer which can provide information on the geometric form of the growth . |
| 7 | He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn . |
| 8 | The series 3 , 2 , 1 is known as graphic form and is a time honoured layout for newsprint . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 14 | ‘ Languages of Ireland ’ , which runs from October 12 to 16 , takes as its theme the centenary of the founding of the Gaelic league and is a celebration of the rich diversity that currently exist in Irish writing . |
| 15 | A church was first consecrated there in AD 649 , but the present cathedral dates from the thirteenth century and is a monument to the Split school of architects who gave new life to the Romanesque style in Dalmatia . |
| 16 | If on the other hand residential accommodation is granted for a term at a rent with exclusive possession , the landlord providing neither attendance nor services , the grant is a tenancy ; any express reservation to the landlord of limited rights to enter and view the state of the premises and to repair and maintain the premises only serves to emphasise the fact that the grantee is entitled to exclusive possession and is a tenant . |
| 17 | Here the reward or payoff acts in a negative way and is a form of punishment . |
| 18 | He is a good entertainer and is a chance to see if he can use that as a springboard for a new career . |
| 19 | The second fee is known as the initial contribution and is a payment towards the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund . |
| 20 | The difference in alteration between tissue type plasminogen activator antigen and activity , and urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen and activity in columnar epithelial carcinomas has been seen before in colonic neoplasia and is a consequence of the complex regulation mechanism of the activity of both proteases . |
| 21 | The α subunit carries a binding site for cholinergic ligand and is a target for pathogenic autoantibodies in the neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis ( MG ) ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ) . |
| 22 | In other words , time does not exist in its own right but is a characteristic of the universe . |
| 23 | As we saw in Chapter III , that a person does a particular job , lives in a particular town or is a vegetarian is usually regarded as a contingent fact about them . |
| 24 | But this statement is an oversimplification : the phrase ‘ having the force of law ’ has no precise meaning but is an amalgam of features which different rules may possess to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 25 | He knows our manuscript room like the palm of his own hand and is a peritus , an expert in Arthurian life . ’ |
| 26 | Fitness was , as ever , a big problem and is a deficiency which will not be easily made up during the Championship . |
| 27 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 28 | Personally , I respect his view and at the same time am glad of his enthusiasm for church planting : ‘ I am convinced that Church Planting is a mark of vigorous and outgoing Christianity and is a sign of hope for the future ’ , he says . |
| 29 | The first is taken from Mark 's Gospel and involves the cure of a single leper ; the second is from his own source and is a story about ten lepers. –any scholars believe that the story of the ten lepers is a development of the miracle of the one leper . |
| 30 | He is a keen footballer and is a member of the Douglas Reyburn Golf Club . |