Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [be] a [noun sg] " 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 | The oldest rock of all is 4600 Ma old and is a silicate type called dunite . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 9 | An acidified lake looks very still and clear but is an animal and plant graveyard . |
| 10 | It is sometimes a question whether a particular confession is the unaided work of an accused or is a fabrication of a police officer . |
| 11 | Mr Roach stressed yesterday that his views were personal and were an attempt to defend the status quo in the police service . |
| 12 | As Mr Urban says : ‘ Everyone wants to look colourful and be a leader but I am afraid of it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He makes training look easy and is a man with a terrific future . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | HCFC22 is not perfect but is a lot better than CFC 11 and 12 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The MINIS system was introduced in 1980 and is a management information system designed to identify resources consumed on specified activities by organizational units . |
| 21 | pearce is another overrated player — i cant see why he is always prefered for tony — yeah pearce is tough and shoots hard and is a fighting guy — — so what — — dorigo is a much more — international — type — coming forward more often and when in form seems to be a good friend with the ball … |
| 22 | They would think he was bound to get ill and be a trouble to them . |
| 23 | Headship and submission are caricatured by the world as authoritarian and being a doormat . |
| 24 | Lines like 41–2 , ‘ turned the thistles of a curse/To types beneficent ’ , are quite remarkable and are an example of what I mean by ‘ experimental ’ . |
| 25 | The taxpayer was incorporated in Hong Kong on 17 June 1975 and is a subsidiary of another Hong Kong company , HK-TVB Ltd . |
| 26 | We all know that the privatised monopolies have become virtually unaccountable and are an embarrassment to Ministers , who try to put a bold front on enormous salary increases . |
| 27 | This shift is proportional to the distance d from Earth : where H is the Hubble constant and is a measure of the rate of expansion of the Universe . |
| 28 | Prof Montgomery graduated MD with honours in 1946 and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow , the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Pathologists . |
| 29 | He is chairman of Emerson Electric and is a director of Anheuser-Busch , Southwestern Bell Corporation , Caterpillar and Baxter International |
| 30 | For Whitehouse , Neville 's avowed ‘ revolutionary ’ stance was aimed particularly at the young and innocent and was a form of ‘ ideological warfare ’ from which they needed to be protected . |