Example sentences of "and [is] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come under the microscope of German giants Bayern Munich and is clearly a man the Crues will have to watch carefully as well . |
| 2 | The percentage frequency is the number of 10-minute samples in which a species was recorded , expressed as a percentage of the total number of samples , and is thus a measure of distribution . |
| 3 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
| 4 | When it came to make-believe , he preferred opera , for in opera a knave in disguise is quickly discovered , and is unambiguously a knave , nor is the matter of a song a lie from start to finish . |
| 5 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 6 | He is a member of the new SCOTVEC Board , and has been appointed Chairman of the new Qualifications and Marketing Committee , and is presently a member of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum . |
| 7 | It was described in a Greek herbal written in the third century B.C. and is probably a native of the eastern Mediterranean area , though it is now so widespread it is difficult to be certain of its origin . |
| 8 | In Amblyseius , diapause takes the form of a temporary blockage of reproduction and is probably a device for preventing breeding in adverse conditions . |
| 9 | However , although ‘ multiculturalism , as an educational movement dates from the 1970s and is primarily a response to the post-Second World War migration of black communities to Britain , it is important to recognize that multiculturalism is a perennial social issue , for all but the simplest of societies are characterized by cultural diversity . |
| 10 | The expression for dva can be written compactly as where is defined by All the vectors v , da , and db appearing in ( 7.2 ) are quite arbitrary ; dv is the difference between local vectors at the same place and is also a vector . |
| 11 | He has since become involved in various other businesses and is also a racehorse trainer with a string of horses at Wilmslow , Cheshire . |
| 12 | Jonathan Lear is professor of philosophy at Yale , and is also a psychoanalyst . |
| 13 | He holds a diploma in land economics from Paisley College and is also a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . |
| 14 | Professor Alan Leadbetter , the principal guest , is Director of the SERC Nuclear Physics Laboratory at Daresbury and is also a victim of governmentally inspired underfunding . |
| 15 | Although this might appear unfriendly — and is also a gesture of warning to other males — the female will usually stand her ground , letting the male know she means serious business . |
| 16 | Stukeley 's claim for All Saints ' College at Wothorpe is based on Speed 's early seventeenth-century map , and is just a misreading of an entry in Valor Ecclesiasticus , Henry VIII 's survey of the value of ecclesiastical property . |
| 17 | The mail will come through to the secretary , and most of the time if it is n't a tape and is just a letter , the A&R person 's morning mail will include your gig information . |
| 18 | Whether gossip , bickering and family feuds were or were not a more prevalent feature than a wholesome communion of the population could vary from village to village and is ultimately a matter of subjective judgement . |
| 19 | The MSDOS variant ( which is , numerically , at least , the most popular ) is called SMARTDRV , and is almost a necessity if you 're looking for faster hard disk performance . |
| 20 | Lambeth — whose leader , Joan Twelves , resigned this week — has been run notoriously badly by a Labour-controlled council and is almost a byword for filth and incompetence . |
| 21 | The oral shield is arrow shaped or light-bulb shaped and is about a quarter of the disk radius in length . |
| 22 | The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else . |
| 23 | Ambache has always supported BASW and is still a member . |
| 24 | He was a member of the President 's Advisory Committee of the Confederation of British Industry from 1982 to 1988 and is currently a member of the Takeover Panel . |
| 25 | He retired as Chief Scientist for the Welsh Water Authority at the time of its privatisation , and is currently a member of the NRA 's Welsh Regional Rivers Committee , among a host of other things . |
| 26 | He was an Examiner with SCOTVEC from 1978 to 1981 , a member of the SCOTVEC Equivalences Committee during the introduction of Action Plan , served on the HND Revisions Committee in 1986 , the HNC Pilot Committee in 1987 and is currently a member of the HCIMA Education and Development Committee . |
| 27 | His accompanist Maria Noller-Namitscheva was born in Bulgaria and is currently a member of the chamber ensemble of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra . |
| 28 | In 1992 Kenyon left the journal to become Controller of BBC Radio 3 ( more Oxford English ) ; the delegates of Oxford University Press ( note the publisher ) then appointed as his successor Tess Knighton , who is a graduate in music from Clare College , Cambridge , was subsequently a research fellow of Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford , and is currently a lecturer at King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 29 | He worked at the British Museum for more than five years ; and is currently a research assistant in the Imperial War Museum 's Dept of Exhibits and Firearms . |
| 30 | As far as personalities are concerned , the second type of employer is frequently the sort of man who forms the backbone of the ultra-right in Britain and is usually a racist in the most extreme and overt sense . |