Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vera , office supervisor in the Enrichment Projects Design Department , has combined her career with service as an officer of the CPSA and has also been a long-serving member of the Benevolent Fund management committee . |
| 2 | Steve Kember is a Croydon lad and has always been a great favourite at his local Football League Club , for which he signed as an apprentice in 1963 and full professional in 1965 . |
| 3 | The discreet field of African art , which escaped art market speculation and has always been a strong point at the fair , will be better represented than ever this year by six dealers , two of them newcomers — Meyer and Ratton , both from Paris . |
| 4 | The pentatonic major scale is and has always been a pre-eminent part of the rock guitarist 's vocabulary . |
| 5 | Mind you , it looks as if they did quite a bit of homework and know kelly is a converted winger … |
| 6 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |
| 7 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |