Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . |
| 3 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 4 | They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s . |
| 5 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 6 | For those who prefer something a little more energetic , there 's also a darts board and a pool table . |
| 7 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 8 | There 's even a poisons database . |
| 9 | There is also a games room with table tennis , pool and video games and normally some sort of activity or entertainment going on . |
| 10 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
| 11 | The Scots language is taught in a full first-year course as well as in English Language 1 and 2 , and there is also an honours course devoted entirely to it . |
| 12 | First , for many assets ( such as stock market indices ) there is either a futures market or a forward market , but not both , and so a direct comparison is not possible . |
| 13 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 14 | As many retired Rentokil folk are probably aware there is now a Rentokilonians society based in East Grinstead . |
| 15 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 16 | I think it 's only a Windows thing . |
| 17 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 18 | It is significant that during the second and third centuries B.C. what was probably a customs post at Begram , Afghanistan , on the route between China and the west was handling ivory as well as glass and bronzes from the west in addition to lacquer bowls from China . |