Example sentences of "[Wh pn] is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These village-based health workers are helped to carry out their functions by a mobile team leader ( the second tier of the system ) who is generally a nurse , physician , or social worker . |
| 2 | Robinson , who is primarily a one-day opener but who scored two fifties when going in first in the final game of last year at Old Trafford , may press Alikhan , as could Paul Atkins and Ally Brown , a gifted striker of the ball who has tightened up his game . |
| 3 | Er there 's none of them left now except an old M Mrs in who is over a hundred . |
| 4 | For the woman who is already a mother , the challenges are now those of coping with growing children and seeing them leave home ; the challenges are always somehow different from how you have imagined them . |
| 5 | Yet at the moment there is a feeling in many of the schools I visit ( both in this country and abroad ) that to give attention to the child who is already a ‘ high flier ’ is difficult and somehow immoral . |
| 6 | Service of an interlocutory process out of England and Wales is permissible with the leave of the court on a person who is already a party to the proceedings and who in the case of a defendant , respondent or third party , has been served with the originating process but leave shall not be required for such service in any proceedings in which the originating process may by these rules or under any Act be served out of England and Wales without leave , ( Ord 8 , rr 1 and 4 ) . |
| 7 | He is a hero , with a hero 's faults : an achiever and an adventurer who is also a victim and an outcast , a shameful man and a faithful family man . |
| 8 | Maitre Binoche , the auctioneer , says the picture belongs to a Swedish collector who is also a collector of contemporary paintings . |
| 9 | If elected , Mr Dunlop , who is also a past chief executive of Commercial Union , says he would question whether the services offered by Lloyd 's are efficient and cost effective . |
| 10 | The songwriter who is also a performer , and has acquired a recording contract , could hope to receive a firm one-year deal with options covering the next three years . |
| 11 | The writer who is also a performer is n't the only one who gets help . |
| 12 | Therefore , why should n't a rational person be able to head a company , just the same as a figures man , who is also a rational person ? ’ |
| 13 | Alistair Borthwick , vice-chairman of the East Anglia Divisional committee , who is also a farmer and member of the National Farmers Union ( NFU ) , said the name change would help to improve membership . |
| 14 | How does a son live his own life in the shadow of an overpowering father who is also a worldwide star ? |
| 15 | Mr Granin , who is also a much-respected parliamentary deputy and a war veteran , made his remarks in an open letter to his ‘ Czechoslovak friends and readers ’ . |
| 16 | With the existing ethnic balance between Czechs and Slovaks in senior positions , the new president has to be a Czech , thus ruling out Mr Alexander Dubcek , the leader of the Prague Spring of 1968 , who is also a Slovak . |
| 17 | Mr Coates appears to have carried the can for a strategy that had the enthusiasm of some of those at the top of Barclays Bank , as well as of David Band , BZW 's chief executive , and of Sir Martin , who is also a deputy chairman of the parent bank . |
| 18 | Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes Faber , £18.99 A VERY large book about Shakespeare , who was a good poet , by the incumbent Poet Laureate , who is also a good poet , should prove something of an event . |
| 19 | A FRENCH director of Eurotunnel who is also a close member of president Franois Mitterrand 's ruling elite has emerged as Robert Maxwell 's partner in la Grande Arche de la Defense , a Parisian property company part-owned by Maxwell Communication Corporation . |
| 20 | Donna Haber , from ASTMS who is also a member of an OECD expert group looking at safety in the biotechnology industry , says that the key to safety in biotechnology is planning in advance . |
| 21 | Perhaps surprisingly for a conductor who is also a singer , Jacob 's direction tends towards the fast and furious style of Handel interpretation , with dramatically accentuated rhythms and strongly articulated bass lines . |
| 22 | Wendy , who is also a keep fit specialist , is overwhelmed by her new pupils ' enthusiasm and thrilled at the progress they have made in a short time . |
| 23 | A friend who is also a fishkeeper should be ideal , of course . |
| 24 | His absurdly romantic fixation with Broadway is not shared by Lush Life , a Puerto Rican transvestite and junkie ( born Geraldo Cruz ) who is also a long-term resident of the flea-bag hotel that Cohn checks into near Times Square . |
| 25 | Last night , Llanelli coach Gareth Jenkins , who is also a Welsh selector , admitted : ‘ It could be that Emyr will not go to Lanzorote . |
| 26 | At a reception for Benn at the British Embassy , several of the Romanian ministers turned up including ‘ Dragonescu , the Minister of Electricity , who is also a great computer king , a tall , angular , intellectual man . |
| 27 | His brother Roy , who is also a haemophiliac , was accused earlier this year of deliberately infecting women with the virus . |
| 28 | In the evening I consulted a friend who is also a local head teacher . |
| 29 | But the only clearly better captain in the country is Crowe 's elder brother Jeff , who is also a better slip than anyone currently in the national team , and this season 's leading first-class run-getter with 970 at 64.67 . |
| 30 | Of special note is Miller-Nordenhake 's exhibition of Los Angeles artist and Documenta participant Charles Ray , who is also a veteran of the spring show , ‘ Helter Skelter ’ , at the L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art . |