Example sentences of "be a [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite difficult to , to get at erm , the other , all the other costs because they 're a myriad of tiny things . |
| 2 | You 're a fool in some ways when you 're too smart for your own good . |
| 3 | They 're a couple of big 'uns and no mistake . |
| 4 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 5 | They 're a lot of idle beggars and there are too many people in the world anyway . " |
| 6 | Stevenson , you 're a cure for dull aches , you really are . ’ |
| 7 | I think they 're a load of pompous gits ! |
| 8 | They 're a bunch of mean guys — the worst kids . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 're a bunch of fat bastards now , we 're inundated with things to eat . |
| 10 | Yeah , but they 're looking at this tape and they 're saying cor they 're a bunch of fucking thickos are n't they ? |
| 11 | They 're a nation of super brats . |
| 12 | Now they 're a reminder of other times |
| 13 | " You 're a receiver of stolen goods , " Tilda replied . |
| 14 | ‘ As you know , I am a man of few words . |
| 15 | As well might I have risen and said , ‘ I will tell you what really happened , for this trial and the real issues involved will one day become the subject of a great novel , and I am a man from two centuries into your future who read that book as a lad … ’ |
| 16 | I am a male of 49 years living on my own in rented accommodation , I spent a year on E.T . |
| 17 | I am a stranger to such matters . |
| 18 | I enjoy movies but am a sucker for sad endings . |
| 19 | I am a mother of four children |
| 20 | I am a hobbyist of some years standing and I have had my Hatchetfish for over two years since they were no bigger than ½ pieces . |
| 21 | For years it had been a dream of Methodist leaders like Hughes , Sir Robert Perks MP and Sir Henry Lunn to have a ‘ monumental Connexional building ’ worthy of Wesleyanism . |
| 22 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 23 | If there has been a history of such problems , an industrial tribunal may accept that eventually you became entitled to say ‘ enough is enough ’ and leave . |
| 24 | Upper Ribblesdale has long been a magnet for experienced cavers , potholers and geologists . |
| 25 | ‘ He had been a prosecutor for eight years . ’ |
| 26 | There 's been a misunderstanding about those photographs . ’ |
| 27 | He 's been a hillwalker for 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 28 | David Moore had been a pilot for 25 years , flying with the Fleet Air Arm before joining Rolls Royce . |
| 29 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 30 | There has n't been a longbow on those walls for two days . |