Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He spent some time in the Navy , worked in light engineering and is a watchmaker to trade . |
| 7 | Which say have er retire in dignity and comfort , that 's the difference between being an old man and being a gentleman . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was always available to the press for an instant comment and was a politician in his own right . |
| 14 | He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn . |
| 15 | The series 3 , 2 , 1 is known as graphic form and is a time honoured layout for newsprint . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | It may , however , be a useful tool where certain establishments ( e.g. a local club or bar ) hold overcrowded late-night ‘ parties ’ which occur on a regular basis and are a nuisance to occupiers in the residential area where the establishment is situated . |
| 22 | With the introduction of the Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician magazine in 1898 he became a regular contributor and was a founder-member of the Society of Model Engineers . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On this , consideration should be given to the position of the Chairman of the Committee : to the desirability that he or she should be full-time , with a more critical and independent role ; and , in recognition of the Committee 's independence in operation from the Government Departments principally constituting it , to the Chairman 's being appointed by the Prime Minister and being a member of the Cabinet Office . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Here the reward or payoff acts in a negative way and is a form of punishment . |
| 28 | He is a good entertainer and is a chance to see if he can use that as a springboard for a new career . |
| 29 | Among these were Eric Taylor and Ted Wood who entered into a collaboration with Basil Rose , who specialised in rather different areas of low energy nuclear physics and was a member of the cyclotron group at the lab . |
| 30 | Bulleid was closely involved with innovations and developments in locomotives and rolling stock and was a pioneer in the application of welding , including its use for boilers . |