Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my experience , the marriage bed was uncomfortable , even distasteful , and invariably boring , whereas sex with my lover had been a revelation . |
| 2 | I have to conclude that my work has been a failure ’ Labour MP Clare Short . |
| 3 | The pub offered snacks at the bar , and as my lunch had been a sandwich I was quite hungry . |
| 4 | At the same time I knew that my marriage had been a facade and in a way , by leaving , I felt I was doing the only honourable thing . |
| 5 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 6 | My wife 's been a couple of times si since then but not me . |
| 7 | My wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years . |
| 8 | My father had been a Christian . |
| 9 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 10 | Now I know that all my life has been a flight |
| 11 | Some of my players have been a bit naive over what they have said . ’ |
| 12 | Those people will always find bad in what you do , but I 'm certainly not going to go out of my way to avoid being a subject for them to beat down on . ’ |
| 13 | Aunt Louise was the last survivor of the family of which my mother had been a member . |
| 14 | ‘ The last thing my mother wanted was a child underfoot while she was dealing with a baby . |
| 15 | Her response had been a spate of anxious letters which he had let accumulate in his locker . |
| 16 | Many of those whose names appeared on the lists also complained , arguing that their overdrafts had been a product of the chronic inefficiency of the bank and its slack accounting procedures . |
| 17 | Simon was convinced , or persuaded himself , that he 'd been ill used by Constanza , that their marriage had been a mistake , a youthful mistake , the kind of thing one did in a war . |
| 18 | A feature of the NHS since its inception has been a combination of central responsibility for the Service and authorities responsible for local decision-making . |
| 19 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 20 | ‘ The machine has a great potential for use at the centre and its restoration has been a project that we have all been working towards for some while . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Something like that , ’ Now was not the time to suggest to this woman that her husband had been a blackmailer as well as a thief . |
| 22 | Said her husband had been a member for years . ’ |
| 23 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 24 | If central actors have not been literally squalid , the results of their actions have been a mess through their failure to comprehend the differentiated nature of the system ’ ( 1985 , p. 55 ) . |
| 25 | Obviously their kiss had been a mistake and a fiasco from the start , and her own wariness about her naïve feelings for him had rung warning bells in her mind since his first mention of a ‘ private nursing job ’ . |
| 26 | Her father had been a history master at the local grammar school and Dotty had kept house for the old man until his death , when she sold their home , bringing some of the furniture , all the books , four cats , two dogs and a collection of medicinal herbs to her new home . |
| 27 | He had been a violent man and her father had been a man even more violent , it was a pity they had ever met . |
| 28 | Her Father had been a District Officer in N. Nigeria in the 1920's , and she gave us letters ; a diary ; some amazing old photographs and a telegram ; and , perhaps best of all , the mementoes of Piccin , the baby leopard reared by the family and then given to Edinburgh Zoo in 1929 . |
| 29 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 30 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |