Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Employment Act will also make it unlawful for organisations to refuse to employ a job applicant on the grounds that he or she is not a union member . |
| 2 | Like the characters and indeed the reader he or she is simply a collection of codes : ‘ The ‘ I ’ which approaches the text is already itself a plurality of other texts , of codes which are infinite , or more precisely , lost ( whose origin is lost ) ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
| 3 | He or she is usually a well-known public figure , who need not have any connection with the academic world ( such as a member of the Royal Family ) . |
| 4 | Anyone who supposes this case to be exceptional should try to reconcile the community of which he or she is genuinely a member with the constituency in which he or she now votes , and then remember that an STV constituency would be three , four , five or more times larger . |
| 5 | Mandy Smith sacrificed the magic of her childhood to amuse an immature Bill Wyman , and she is now a very ill young woman . |
| 6 | For example , he has been married and is still on very good terms with his wife ; their divorce unlocked her true potential , and she is now a part-time feminist studies lecturer at SCU . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He is responsible for the Group 's taxation , UK trust and pension services and he is also a well known author of books and articles on taxation . |
| 10 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 11 | Because the ruler takes on such an exalted role , his power is unchallengeable and he is therefore a despot . |
| 12 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 13 | David Emanuel ( above ) is best known for his role in creating Princess Diana 's fairy tale wedding dress , and he is still a high-society favourite for his Ascot suits and Royal haute couture . |
| 14 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 15 | The value of professionality is that it focuses attention upon the activities of teachers in relation to pupils , each other and their organisations and it is thus a dynamic concept in opposition to the rather static ‘ characteristics ’ or ‘ descriptive ’ approach inherent in most studies of professionalism . |
| 16 | The hare and the hatter also decide to put the poor little dormouse into the teapot , which is rather cruel because he did n't do anything to them and it is rather a strange thing for his companions to do . |
| 17 | The Education Reform Act required college governing bodies to be dominated by employer interests , and it is normally a requirement that at least 50% of the attendance at any governing body meeting should be from the employer sector . |
| 18 | Formal paved areas in the garden provide a nice contrast to the freely curving growth of the plants but , however well laid the paving stones , tiles or bricks , sooner or later weeds sprout through the cracks , and it is either a case of weedkiller , not popular with organic gardeners , or constant weeding , which scrapes fingertips and breaks nails . |
| 19 | And it is partly a matter of organising paragraphs — how , for example , to organise a comparison . |
| 20 | And it is partly a matter of knowing where to find help : how to find examples and how to work out all the possibilities of a classification . |
| 21 | The use of hydrogen bonds , that is hydroxyl groups ( -OH ) ( see Appendix 1 ) to control adhesion at an interface is very common in living organisms and it is presumably a convenient method where the environment is continuously wet . |
| 22 | " I understand the position , and it is clearly a very difficult one , " he said . |
| 23 | One possible reason could be that in addition to a general sense of guilt associated with the organs of sex and reproduction , there is the added fact that most surrogate mothers belong to the economically disadvantaged classes ; and it is arguably a case of exploitation if a woman is driven to use her reproductive organs to escape from a state of poverty . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Its characteristic musculature is strongly marked in crossbred offspring , especially from the age of six weeks , and it is also a colour-marking breed : reds and blacks are diluted to salmon pink and a ‘ creamy soot ’ ( pale coffee to agouti ) while whites are often diluted to off-white , but the coat pattern of the dam is often transmitted and a white dorsal stripe is dominant , though ghostly . |
| 26 | We intend to place the money in our building fund and it is also a faith-building experience for us to see God blessing us in this way . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It helps if it is small , and it is also a great advantage if it can easily reach the next tree without having to climb down to the ground and then climb up again . |
| 29 | In part a history of this conflict , Hooper 's book is a useful English language reference ; and it is also a personal odyssey . |
| 30 | It can have a powerful emotional effect , and it is also a useful aide-mémoire . |