Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , regulatory agencies should be strengthened , particularly in their legal departments , so that it would be possible to nurture a pool of state lawyers sufficiently specialized and experienced to be a fair match for corporate lawyers . |
| 2 | It was nearly 20 years before Cade 's discovery was reinvestigated and found to be a useful treatment for maniacal patients . |
| 3 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , the offence had fallen into desuetude , but it was resurrected and found to be a handy prosecutorial weapon against gang fights , because it enabled the prosecutor to circumvent the limitations imposed by the laws of complicity . |
| 4 | Super Mario Bros directed by husband and wife team Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel opens nationwide next month and looks like being a big attraction with young audiences . |
| 5 | They all look the same , in cut-off jeans , tee-shirt , unwashed hair , and appear to be a motley collection of idle college students . |
| 6 | A relative tachycardia was seen during the procedure in many patients , and seemed to be a normal physiological response to the gastroscopy . |
| 7 | They interest a wide range of scholars and lay users and deserve to be a standard reference for subject and local historians . |
| 8 | The results are pleasing to both hand and eye and seem to be a satisfying way of leaving something of lasting beauty and worth to posterity . |
| 9 | This kinase has been purified and shown to be a multicomponent complex consisting of an approximately 350 kDa catalytic subunit and a heterodimeric DNA-binding subunit ( 6 , 10 , 11 ) . |
| 10 | If you have four GCSEs [ waived for those over 25 ] you can become a student member of the Institute of Legal Executives and train to be a legal executive . |
| 11 | This , defined as sinus rhythm with a rate of greater than 100 beats per minute , was present in many of our patients with or without oxygen and seems to be a normal physiological response . |
| 12 | The diagnosis was easy to make and seems to be a safe one . |
| 13 | Spain is a Euro-enthusiast partly because the EC gives it lots of regional aid , and partly because its policy of ‘ convergence ’ reassures foreign investors that Spain will get richer and continue to be a good home for investment . |
| 14 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 15 | And from then on Duncan ate grass and leaves and grew to be a real , big dinosaur . |
| 16 | But he looks to follow Mark Glazebrook who closed the Albemarle Gallery three weeks ago and reverts to being a private dealer and exhibition curator working from his home in Pont Street . |
| 17 | This was , though , only in a small section of the ground and appeared to be a token gesture . |
| 18 | The company with whom she had been playing tennis and swimming and was now sitting , were an old friend she had known since Pony Club days , and her newly acquired husband , and David Fairfax , Junior , son of the house , spectacled and earnest and studying to be a chartered accountant . |
| 19 | John 's brother Cecil — father of the present Liverpool chairman — joined him to lend support and proved to be a brilliant organiser . |
| 20 | Undeniably , the Board 's regulations of 1924 and 1932 exerted a powerful beneficial influence on the nature and extent of provision for liberal adult education throughout the period and proved to be a major factor in facilitating the rapid increase in the scale of activity . |
| 21 | When in New Zealand , Ofahengaue made his Test debut and proved to be a dynamic forward whose powerful running and block-busting defence earned instant attention from the wealthy league clubs . |
| 22 | Elisha was a gentler person than his master and proved to be a wise adviser to the kings of Israel , with the result that the danger from the Syrians was outwitted and avoided . |
| 23 | Unlike Laurie Connell who formed an instant collection in a couple of years , Bond 's collection was still in the making and aimed to be a balanced historical survey . |
| 24 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 25 | His list of 400 healing plants , described and detailed in four books , is probably the most famous materia medica of all , and continued to be a standard reference for European medicine for the next 1,500 years . |
| 26 | In the first place , they had lent vital paramilitary support to the rising and continued to be a crucial source of committed volunteers on the battle fronts . |
| 27 | She went to a special school , and continued to be a voluntary helper at the school where I taught when I left . |
| 28 | Lively , graceful and an under-rated beauty , the Firetail Rasbora Rasbora borapetensis is invariably inexpensive to buy , and proves to be a hardy aquarium fish . |
| 29 | Big brother was staying in Islington , making a living from TV comedy shows by being one of the twenty or so names that zip up the screen under where it says Additional Material By : , and trying to be a stand-up comic . |
| 30 | Such poor quality teaching has been described in similar terms in a range of reports by the HMI on different age sectors within the education service — on primary and middle schools , for instance — and continues to be a consistent feature of their ongoing commentary on the quality of the present teaching force . |