Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not get to attend client meetings , but this depends on whether you were employed as an experienced but young professional or are a new entrant who is just beginning . |
| 2 | He was in his 30s and was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment . |
| 3 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 4 | The adjacent campanile is also interesting and is a combination of Norman and Byzantine work . |
| 5 | The Bell 's food is always fresh and is a lot nicer . |
| 6 | Today the business holds its head high and is a world leader in its specialized fields . |
| 7 | It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle . |
| 8 | The oldest rock of all is 4600 Ma old and is a silicate type called dunite . |
| 9 | For the elderly , and especially for students , it is a better deal than was offered by any previous alternative system of local government finance , and it is much fairer and is a better deal than what would be imposed by the Labour party . |
| 10 | The GHS has been running since 1972 and is a large-scale survey designed to meet the information needs of a variety of different government departments . |
| 11 | Lloyd , who was born in Essex , emigrated to South Africa as an 11-year-old and is a graduate from the same riding academy as Roberts . |
| 12 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 13 | She has been a member of the board of the British Council since 1985 and is a vice president of the NSPCC . |
| 14 | It is due to be heard in the Chancery Division of the High Court , in The Strand , London , on March 22 and is a separate action from the eviction order . |
| 15 | It is sometimes a question whether a particular confession is the unaided work of an accused or is a fabrication of a police officer . |
| 16 | As Mr Urban says : ‘ Everyone wants to look colourful and be a leader but I am afraid of it . |
| 17 | The main façade was built from 1621 and is a strange concoction of northern Mannerism and Italian Baroque . |
| 18 | For example , is the division between academic and pastoral functions appropriate and is a departmental structure appropriate to managing cross-curricular factors , especially when the pupil experience is not divided into compartments ? |
| 19 | He said that credit costs had been rising partly as a reaction to global inflationary fears , but that the current high interest rates were necessary and appropriate and were a way of keeping inflation in check . |
| 20 | He makes training look easy and is a man with a terrific future . ’ |
| 21 | Considerable effort by senior management needs to be devoted to refining information so that it is related to local units , uses easily understood concepts and yardsticks , has illustrations and examples , is consistent and is a careful balance between mentioning failures and successes . |
| 22 | A decisive break with realist conceptions of the curriculum is long overdue and is a precondition for genuinely pluralist forms of radicalization of the curriculum ( Alvarado and Ferguson , 1983 ; Wexler , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Does he further agree that , sooner or later , the talks will have to develop into meaningful discussions about constitutional change on an all-Ireland basis because the status quo is untenable and is a recipe for continuing conflict ? |
| 24 | Barbara Coleman was proficient but being a full-time artist required more than that and Rain judged that she had no more to give . |
| 25 | But when the woman she had given Cara 's card to hove into view her heartbeats steadied , for the person who accompanied her was not male but was a pinafore-clad woman of about the same age who , duster in hand , had obviously been brought away from her cleaning duties . |
| 26 | HCFC22 is not perfect but is a lot better than CFC 11 and 12 . |
| 27 | " Article " is undefined but is a broad term . |
| 28 | The blessing of the boats , which takes place at Whitby , was started in 1948 and is a much later version of the crop blessing tradition . |
| 29 | Precociously talented pianist Hancock ( b. 1940 ) played Mozart 's D major Concerto with the Chicago SO at the age of eleven and was a key member of the Miles Davis Quintet at 23 . |
| 30 | The experiment gave every indication that this would be possible and was a great technical success — but when the elected representatives were asked to agree a city-wide scheme , they voted against it . |