Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought , if I tell the driver I 'm a real archbishop and I 'll pay him the other end he 'll just say , ‘ Oh , stuff it , mate ! ' ’ |
| 2 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |
| 3 | ‘ I have played alongside internationals wherever I have been , so of course I am a better player , ’ he said . |
| 4 | By the end of the afternoon I was a nervous wreck . |
| 5 | But once at university I was an apt student . |
| 6 | In your mind I was a scarlet woman and could be nothing else . |
| 7 | By the way just for the tape she 's a right fuck . |
| 8 | Five B status is going to bring in two to three million a year over the next five years , the total cost of running the scheme is one point three million pounds , in effect we 're a net contributor |
| 9 | Cabinet colleague on Chris Patten , scriptwriter to the PM We are an easy target , just 14 defenceless women with no expertise . |
| 10 | In the public mind they 're a single entity . |
| 11 | It is learning about religion it 's an educational process and it has an importance , whether it 's learning about religion and whether its learning it as a cultural , historical and a religious er tradition of the country and that is what is important . |
| 12 | Bradley Star is a very nice horse he 's a classy performer this one , Josh Gifford 's horses are in tremendous form and I was talking to the man who who rides him Deckland Murphy he 's my next door neighbour he thinks he 'll run a big race . |
| 13 | Play allowed to continue , forwards towards , he 's had a good game tonight if it 's even if it 's not his regular position he 's been pushed there by and as a result it 's a free kick to Shrewsbury Town . |
| 14 | Soon as he gets behind the wheel of a car he 's an absolute dickhead . |
| 15 | The species will take the usual foods but bear in mind it is a robust fish and needs an appropriate diet — earthworms , beef heart , mussels , prawns and bits of chicken are ideal . |
| 16 | I do n't disagree I mean I I again it 's a key it 's a key element to actually formalizing the training in that I mean , if you 're going to do it properly , it all fits into you know |
| 17 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 18 | he 's a reject he 's a real reject . |
| 19 | I once watched a film on the telly it was a pretty crap film really ! |
| 20 | When you take notes during the interview it is a good idea to do so a short while after the relevant moment has passed so that the candidate is not aware of what prompted you to write . |
| 21 | In practice it was a straightforward piece of CIA terrorism designed to overthrow by force a legitimately elected government that America did not like . |
| 22 | For additional effect it is a good idea to have a large pair of sunglasses and a summer type holiday hat . |
| 23 | He says in effect it is a new machine — the parts are the latest available , and the original machine they were going to buy is now obsolete . |
| 24 | In effect it was a simple slap at both the school system and the way in which the system actually provokes bullying from pupils or teachers . |
| 25 | In a second condition it was an unlikely completion of the sentence , while remaining both syntactically and semantically consistent with the context . |
| 26 | Teaching does indeed take time , but in the long term it is a great time saver . |
| 27 | To use an educational term it 's an active model it 's an active model of , model of partnership and of sharing . |
| 28 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 29 | If the embryos have taken so much trouble to have so well-defined patterns of cleavage it is a reasonable expectation that the cleavage pattern may be involved in specifying cell fate . |
| 30 | ‘ If there 's no wind it 's a fine day ! ’ is a Shetland expression , and to me it is especially relevant because not only does it affect the movements of birds and animals , but it makes them so much easier to see on the water . |