Example sentences of "[verb] and be [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sutton rectory was sold and is now an hotel and restaurant . |
| 2 | Under chairman Sir Ron Brierley and new management , GPG has been restructured and is now an investment holding company with a diversified range of strategic interests in a number of businesses . |
| 3 | But gripped , gripped and is now a cenotaph . |
| 4 | Fund raising , as we know , is here to stay and is now a way of life . |
| 5 | Picasso had never shown publicly at the big Salons , but Braque 's Cubist works exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1909 were widely discussed and were undoubtedly an influence on some painters , while they must have helped others to interpret Cézanne in a more intellectual , objective way . |
| 6 | Micky Stewart has since kept him involved in international get togethers and is clearly an admirer . |
| 7 | She looked Italian , was well dressed and was probably a secretary at the United Nations . |
| 8 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |