Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is also a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In part a history of this conflict , Hooper 's book is a useful English language reference ; and it is also a personal odyssey . |
| 10 | It can have a powerful emotional effect , and it is also a useful aide-mémoire . |
| 11 | It is a pleasure in itself , and it is also a psychological event . |
| 12 | Now if you 're gon na be writing in software you do n't actually look at it like that maybe and it is also a useful way to generalize these decoders . |
| 13 | The van is maintained by the company , but the representative pays for the petrol ( on the premise that it can be offset against tax and it is also a bigger inducement to make a sale ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But she is also a keen listener . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Dante is a political poet but he is also a great deal more than that . |
| 19 | Volkmar is a zealous preacher utterly devoted to the destruction of Chaos , but he is also a mighty warrior who is not afraid to face the peril of battle . |
| 20 | He is head of the judiciary , but he is also a politician and a member of the Cabinet . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it is also a more general process describing the interactive skills of policemen and women : the knowledge of when and in what situations it is appropriate to show sympathy , tolerance , and understanding rather than aggression and force . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This gas is better known to dental patients as laughing gas , but it is also a mainstay in the operating theatres of many hospitals . |
| 25 | This feeling owes a lot to all the novels and films and to actual practice with condemned men being ‘ granted their last wish before they die ’ , but it is also a strong expression of trying to anticipate impending loss . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | HORSE racing may be the sport of kings , or more recently sheiks , but it is also a business — and it is remarkably unprofitable . |
| 28 | Thus the affective is deeply embedded in everything a scientist does , but it is also a process of ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 29 | This is a horrifying story , but it is also a moving testament to the courage of the child who grew up to become a man surprisingly free from bitterness or hatred . |
| 30 | But it is also a saga of human avarice and the abuse of power . |