Example sentences of "[pers pn] be a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a serious Windows user , you may prefer to wait and see how the Windows version of Dataease performs when it is released shortly . |
| 2 | However , unless you are a professional personnel officer , one of the proofs of your success will be in the fact that you do not have to exercise your interviewing skill too often , because you consistently choose the right people for the right jobs and they are therefore happy to stay . |
| 3 | For the accounts illiterate , it presents a very steep learning curve , and some re-learning if you 're an established Windows user . |
| 4 | You were a real rabbit-in-the-headlights job . ’ |
| 5 | As it was , she became more and more incensed as she tried to break out of his limpet-like hold , the result being that when she did manage to break free she was so outraged — just because she was a female contracts officer , the boss 's son thought he could do as he liked with her — that she verbally tore into him . |
| 6 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 7 | ‘ We are a sophisticated savings club and monies received will peak at £60m this year . ’ |
| 8 | We are an equal opportunities employer and are fully committed to Equal Opportunity policies . |
| 9 | They knew what they were doing and they were getting hits from it , whereas we are an experimental albums band . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Some people think we 're a black arts centre . |
| 11 | In those early days we were a real sub-Faces band , all Gibson guitars and plonking bass lines . |
| 12 | erm Do n't really know much about them at all erm they are an old boys side erm but erm we really do n't know too much about them . |
| 13 | It 's a well-founded Dales village , mentioned in the Domesday Book , with a fascinating and somewhat turbulent , if bizarre history Cotherstone Castle , which loomed over the confluence of the rivers Tees and Balder , is now just a heap of rubble . |
| 14 | Now in this particular game it 's a limited overs game ; fifty overs a side , one side will win tomorrow er so there will be a definite result , and we think we 've got a strong side . |
| 15 | Since , since Norwich , you just ca n't delegate like erm , you just ha , you do n't have any other management there , only section managers , and you delegate that job to er , supervisors , erm , it 's a very on-hands management situation . |
| 16 | it 's a repeated measures design . |
| 17 | It is a small police post with cells at the back . |
| 18 | As to placing cable patterns , there is no need to have them all over the garment , unless it is a classic sports sweater . |
| 19 | In fact , he 's a young acoustics engineer summoned last year from Paris to run the family hotel . |
| 20 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 21 | It was a real rags-to-riches story . |
| 22 | After all it was a legitimate weapons cargo , however much Britain might disapprove . |
| 23 | So it was a public relations effort ? |
| 24 | It was a resounding narcotics sensation that first threatened the film industry with obliteration back in 1920 when the handsome Wallace Reid , a public idol created by The Birth of a Nation , ran afoul of federal authorities . ’ |
| 25 | It was a big sports night . ’ |
| 26 | It was an armoured personnel carrier with a 20 mm weapon fit in a turret . |
| 27 | His early infatuation was with motor-cycles , and he was a successful trials rider . |
| 28 | He was a natural games player ; he had been a notable cricketer like several of his family , and had captained the school XI at Cheltenham . |