Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [prep] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , Mary is scarcely a woman whom women today might be expected to find to be a symbol who represents them . |
| 2 | Forgetting where your car is parked seems to be an example of impaired memory for a relatively complex event at the tactical level . |
| 3 | He had decided to train to be a reciter . |
| 4 | The problem arises particularly when the data collected seems to be a product of the research method used rather than of what is being studied . |
| 5 | But suppose we think that everything that is said purports to be a statement of fact , and suppose we think that for someone to be justified in saying what he says he must say it on the basis of something he has observed . |
| 6 | I 've got to pretend to be a reporter Dan . |
| 7 | Nastiest : ‘ Used to pretend to be a heroin addict . ’ |
| 8 | You 've got to learn to be a toddler from a baby , you 've got to learn to be a child and then a teenager . |
| 9 | You 've got to learn to be a toddler from a baby , you 've got to learn to be a child and then a teenager . |
| 10 | Finally , after the first order system , the unit on which analysis is based ceases to be a material unit present to the senses ( as words , seen or heard ) but becomes an ideal , abstract unit created within the mind of the interpretive analyst . |
| 11 | The single-case double lid was a more expensive version of the single-case type , though what service the additional lid rendered appears to be a mystery . |
| 12 | Ion deposition has never laid claim to be a quality method but for high volume work it 's the way to go as it is a virtually indestructible technology . |
| 13 | If an SFA member which has private customers is itself asked to agree to be a market counterparty of another SFA member , it can agree only if it reasonably believes that its own customers will still be protected . |