Example sentences of "[adj] and [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in his 30s and was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The adjacent campanile is also interesting and is a combination of Norman and Byzantine work . |
| 4 | The Bell 's food is always fresh and is a lot nicer . |
| 5 | Today the business holds its head high and is a world leader in its specialized fields . |
| 6 | It is found mainly in timbers less than fifty years old and is a much larger insect than the furniture beetle . |
| 7 | The oldest rock of all is 4600 Ma old and is a silicate type called dunite . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 12 | She has been a member of the board of the British Council since 1985 and is a vice president of the NSPCC . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As Mr Urban says : ‘ Everyone wants to look colourful and be a leader but I am afraid of it . |
| 15 | The main façade was built from 1621 and is a strange concoction of northern Mannerism and Italian Baroque . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He makes training look easy and is a man with a terrific future . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Stephen has been with Clover Leaf since 1986 and is a full time-served apprentice and MoT tester . |
| 26 | Thus , if the taxpayer created a discretionary trust before 18 March 1986 and is a beneficiary thereunder , the reservation of benefit provisions can not apply . |
| 27 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 28 | The MINIS system was introduced in 1980 and is a management information system designed to identify resources consumed on specified activities by organizational units . |
| 29 | His strength is unbelievable and is a crucial asset in close-quarter exchanges . |
| 30 | State censorship is abhorrent and unthinkable in a democratic country , but censorship carried out along party lines is equally abhorrent and is a significant move towards state censorship . |