Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're a pest and a danger and will have to be destroyed . |
| 2 | ‘ Silver , ’ he said , ‘ you 're a scoundrel and a murderer , but I 'm told that I must save you from the law . ’ |
| 3 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And you really think someone like Chief Inspector Kuhlmann of the German Federal Police is going to swallow this absurd idea that you 're a murderer and a rapist ? ’ |
| 5 | " You 're a liar and a thief , too . " |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | He does n't like the label : ‘ I am a writer and a Catholic , ’ he explains , not a Mauriac or a Bernanos . |
| 8 | Now I am a Klansman and a politician . |
| 9 | ‘ I am a prostitute and a drug addict and not many people believe people like me . |
| 10 | ‘ I am a Franciscan and a Maillotin . ’ |
| 11 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 12 | For the BBC , the Pilkington inquiry had been a vindication and a triumph , confirming the superiority of its own service over the commercial values of ITV , which was moving rapidly into surplus . |
| 13 | Throughout her life she had been a realist and a coper . |
| 14 | Obviously their kiss had been a mistake and a fiasco from the start , and her own wariness about her naïve feelings for him had rung warning bells in her mind since his first mention of a ‘ private nursing job ’ . |
| 15 | Sanders had been a Whip and a specialist in franchise matters before the war , so his return to Westminster gave an added impetus to the party campaign against the Bill ; he became a sort of unofficial party Whip against a government that the party supported , cooperated closely with George Younger , by this time Party Chairman , and eventually became deputy chairman of the party himself in 1918 . |
| 16 | Steven Rich , Peter H. Tillou , London ( a relatively recent presence in London ) : Peter Tillou has been a dealer and a collector for over thirty-five years from his home in Connecticut . |
| 17 | His parents , Abraham and Beattie , were ordinary , respectable , middle-class Jews who owned an electrical-goods store in the town ; his grandfather , who left Russia in the 1920s , had been a peddler and a shoemaker . |
| 18 | In the darkness before morning and the first shock of discovering that Fiver was gone , Bigwig had been a comfort and a stand-by . |
| 19 | Fergus had been so intensely aware of every separate part of her that it had been a pain and a torment . |
| 20 | When he asked about his father , his mother told him he had been a drunkard and a scoundrel . |
| 21 | By pre-arrangement the debate was limited to foreign and defence matters , which Mr Ford considered his strong suit because he had been a congressman and a vice-president while his opponent , Jimmy Carter , had been a mere governor of Georgia and a peanut farmer . |
| 22 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 23 | There has been a petition and a lot of signatures collected , so on behalf of Grey Street residents , please keep the 11.17 running . |
| 24 | Admittedly , another aspect of the whole thing , as you rightly say , is that there 's been a burgeoning and a lot of different schools , and of course different schools give emphasis to different , different kinds of things . |
| 25 | There might have been a rug and a sheet missing from the bedroom a picture gone from the wall an incomplete rack of spice jars . |
| 26 | I think it would have been a disaster and a recipe for disaster because practically if you know what the situation is in the Moat Centre and the Highfields youth and community centre then people would have never resisted to that change . |
| 27 | " " El-ahrairah , " replied Prince Rainbow , " all the animals know that you are a thief and a trickster . |
| 28 | You are a gentleman and a knight . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You are a scholar and a gentleman . |
| 30 | ‘ To put it in words of one syllable , ’ he said , each word encased in ice , ‘ we are a man and a woman shut up together alone in a house , separated from all other humans by a stretch of Atlantic . |