Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain Laughland , for one , has gone on from being a long-serving cap from London Scottish to be the exiles ' representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee and , ex officio , chairman of the Anglo-Scots ' committee . |
| 2 | ‘ Sometimes it 's not so easy to be the teacher 's pet ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes it 's not so easy to be the teacher 's pet ! ’ |
| 4 | On another occasion he publicly told the wife of Britain 's ambassador to France that she was ‘ not fit to be an ambassador 's wife ’ . |
| 5 | Solaris 2.0 was only supposed to be a developers ' release in the first place . |
| 6 | There was supposed to be a ship 's doctor aboard but no-one below decks had set eyes on him . |
| 7 | The question was , did the student teacher have the right to compel Nicky Wragg to do something he did not want to do during what was supposed to be the boy 's free time ? |
| 8 | Seemed proud of himself for having found out , because he said it 's supposed to be the planet 's big secret . |
| 9 | He was supposed to be the paper 's foreign correspondent but instead of filing everyday reports like the other journalists he became obsessed with chasing after so-called spies and spent most of the time commuting between East and West Germany hoping to land the big scoop . ’ |
| 10 | When things went wrong the early warning system was supposed to be the authority 's inspectorate . |
| 11 | But since on this occasion the words were dictated to the child it is more likely to be the child 's efforts to repeat the sound to herself and to write down her idea of a phonic equivalent . |
| 12 | More selective collections on specific topics are likely to be the student 's most convenient first references in searching this class of material . |
| 13 | ‘ I have to be quick , ’ I told Eric , and explained why he would not be able to be the principessa 's gardener . |
| 14 | For most of its life , and certainly for its early years , it was either too outspoken to be a children 's show , but not high-brow enough to be considered as adult entertainment . |