Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just gon na say , some sometimes , I have n't been for a bit mind you , oh , well the last time I went , sometimes I go to Wales to Blaenau Ffestiniog or to congregation |
| 2 | First impressions are of a wine bar which also serves food . |
| 3 | You look as if you 've been in a concentration camp you do ! and that 's the truth . |
| 4 | Australia has neither and both countries are in a time zone which does not suit the world television audience . |
| 5 | The inference to be drawn from the first part of his letter is that once Roman Catholics are in a voting majority they will automatically vote for a United Ireland . |
| 6 | ‘ If you are in an office job you can usually go home and leave your job behind . |
| 7 | If you 've been to a puppy party you 'll know how much fun it can be to train your pup in a positive and natural way . |
| 8 | I have also been to a strip show which involved a woman , in a , in a club and it was a very different atmosphere . |
| 9 | The first question begs many others — but those of us who are familiar with some of the history of the disabled people 's movement will recognise that today 's ‘ disability professionals ’ are on a career path which has been carefully and painstakingly carved out by generations of their predecessors . |
| 10 | Being in a concert party whose members are buying shares is neither wrong nor against the law . |
| 11 | They were in a rock band something like that . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course we were always worried because when you were on a troop ship there 'd be 10 men for every space in the lifeboats . |
| 13 | Derek , of The Avenue , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough said : ‘ Death Of A Gasholder is about a poetry gang who get a grant from the local authority . |
| 14 | The film is about a getaway driver who decides to cast aside his criminal life , seeking refuge in the Suffolk countryside , where he falls in love , marries and starts a family , but his former associates do not want to lose him . |
| 15 | So it 's for a marketing company who are are helping . |
| 16 | ‘ The funniest request I have had so far is for a birthday cake which is made to look like a plate of steak and chips with cutlery on a tabletop setting . ’ |
| 17 | The choice is between a repayment mortgage which is a straightforward loan , an endowment mortgage which includes life assurance , and a pension mortgage . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's about an advertising man who gets disillusioned with the business , and who with the co-operation of his incredibly efficient and wonderful butler escapes to Provence . |
| 19 | The reason why facilities at Dounreay were offered is that the fuel is of a specialist type which the Dounreay plant can process . |
| 20 | because the work is of an executive nature which does not require ministers to be involved in day-to-day management ; |
| 21 | He 's like a country gentleman who insultingly dissimulates his wealth beneath ragged pullovers and patched elbows , while the rest of us are struggling to conceal our penury beneath well-cut suits we ca n't afford . |
| 22 | It 's like a toy town I 've put away in the cupboard because I 'm too old for it and here it is , still waiting for me . |
| 23 | That amazes me why people , it 's like a status symbol they have to have the best bloody machine ! |
| 24 | If your child is under a child psychiatrist who is totally unsympathetic to dietary ideas , then ask your family doctor to refer you to someone else — an allergist for example , or a more open-minded psychiatrist — who will be prepared to supervise an elimination diet . |
| 25 | Now obviously if it 's in a school laboratory it 's under closely controlled supervised conditions and that 's what we 're concerned about . |
| 26 | He 's in a sense living there is in indictment of an attitude and the love and the care that the church and a society that proclaims to be civilized has for itself , and I think we 'll have to leave it there . |
| 27 | home from Jack 's on a Sunday morning I have to walk as far |
| 28 | Oh yes , yes , very much so , yes , and with this new project that 's really exciting because it 's on an allotment site which has never actually happened before with a psychiatric rehabilitation project . |
| 29 | Intellectually , the appeal is to a morality structure which contrasts Christian asceticism with Satanic debauchery . |
| 30 | If the pointer is steady at 1½ dots then the aircraft is on a position line which is 5° less than track ( if the pointer is left ) , or 5° more than track ( if pointer is right ) . |