Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is also a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 2 | He is not new to the museum world , as he is on the visiting committees of the Metropolitan and of the Freer Art gallery , and he is also a collector , of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art , and of Chinese archaic jades and bronzes . |
| 3 | The film gives peace of mind to the potentially vulnerable , such as the elderly , and to the parents of young children , and it is also a deterrent to the intending intruder . |
| 4 | The lifeworld both provides the basis of meaning on which communicative action can draw and it is also a product of the exchange of meaning that constitutes communicative action . |
| 5 | Mother Hilary may well be the one to shed those tears , but she is also a realist who realises that for her daughter to achieve at the sport she loves , she needed to leave home . |
| 6 | But she is also a mother : she has a baby at her feet , and a further child , a three-year-old girl , whose hips we have decided to destroy . |
| 7 | But he is also a writer of remarkable ability who has managed to capture and to keep the readership he has bewildered and delighted and offended , and whose work is strong in an intelligent and generous-hearted awareness of public matters , some of them quite remote from the Family Roth : The Counterlife , for instance , carries a telling serio-comic critique of the hard line in Israel , the Israeli toughness , that refuses to ‘ give ground ’ . |
| 8 | Not only is starting a new career in accounting , but he is also a lead singer in a group called ‘ Cellardwellers ’ and will be starting a tour of 30 dates this summer , including Hamburg and America . |
| 9 | He is head of the judiciary , but he is also a politician and a member of the Cabinet . |
| 10 | The overall effect of the boogification technique is , of course , sexy , but it is also a bit jittery and absurd ; the sensuality seems almost out of control . |
| 11 | This is largely a matter of narrative voice , but it is also a question of accounting for subjectivity . |
| 12 | This is potentially very strong language but it is also a plea to God to remove her from her misery . |
| 13 | This gas is better known to dental patients as laughing gas , but it is also a mainstay in the operating theatres of many hospitals . |
| 14 | But it is also a hotel which actively looks forward to the future . |
| 15 | But it is also a procedure which can be taught . |
| 16 | But it is also a technique that is ‘ parodic ’ in the Bakhtinian sense , or ‘ subversively mimetic ’ in the sense that Luce Irigaray uses this concept . |
| 17 | But it is also a vindication of the creative manipulation of language and a revalorization of the traditional relation between women and fiction . |
| 18 | Aintree says puckishly that this arrangement is reliable because it depends on people 's judgement , but it is also a hoaxer 's charter . |
| 19 | Its fearsome appearance strikes terror into the hearts of the Elves ' enemies , but it is also a memorial to the countless Elf warriors who have died defending it . |
| 20 | But it is also a saga of human avarice and the abuse of power . |
| 21 | Christianity is a religion , but it is also a faith and magic is not at the root of faith . ’ |
| 22 | Capital is thus not only a political critique of society but it is also a criticism of the terms in which the economy was discussed at the time when he wrote , and a demonstration that these terms are moulded to the purposes of the system they pretend to analyse . |
| 23 | But it is also a history which tries to take account of the whole range of factors that shape human societies , from the character of their physical environments to sporadic peasant rebellions . |
| 24 | The Green Book claims universality , and so names no names ; but it is also a book written in the first instance for Libyans , to encourage them to create popular democracy . |
| 25 | But it is also a consequence of the academic stagnation over the last few years of much that is called industrial archaeology in England . |
| 26 | HORSE racing may be the sport of kings , or more recently sheiks , but it is also a business — and it is remarkably unprofitable . |
| 27 | But it is also a difference of a fundamental nature , similar to that between Old and New Testaments . |
| 28 | Twentieth-century archive film is direct evidence , but it is also a producer 's or director 's creation , sometimes biased , and often an interpretation of events . |
| 29 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 30 | But it is also a lesson that Yucatan 's businessmen and its state government have been trying to impress on investors from the United States — with controversial results . |