Example sentences of "to [be] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth was revealed only by chance , when a journalist for the US magazine Sports Illustrated happened to be aboard a boat when it hauled up seven dead porpoises , caught in a single set . |
| 2 | But it was to be over a month before Dad ‘ turned up ’ again . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , they appear to be of a type that would be used in the manufacture of bulk chemicals . ’ |
| 4 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 5 | So you 've got to take the initiative and be firm where you need to be with a company or with a farmer … and consider his needs , if they be economical , impracticable . |
| 6 | You need to be on a diet that is healthy , well-balanced , and that you enjoy and makes you feel good . |
| 7 | In Scotland , by contrast , one felt oneself to be on a periphery and , in some way , helpless . |
| 8 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 9 | The law says that a dog does n't have to be on a lead but it does have to be under control . |
| 10 | I 'd half-expected the door to be on a chain or to be asked to push some ID through the letter-box before she opened up . |
| 11 | But er , any acquisition has to fit extremely well strategically and it has to be at a price that we consider to be a , a , a good price . |
| 12 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 13 | Older workers tend to be at an advantage when applying for jobs in today 's labour market simply because they belong to a generation which had fewer years of schooling . |
| 14 | My father , who 's also an actor , once wanted me to be in a play that he was in , and just being asked made me cry . |
| 15 | To Wilson , they all seemed to be in a fever and like any good nurse she waited anxiously for the point of crisis , more concerned about the fate of Mrs Browning than about that of Italy . |
| 16 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 17 | sort of erm nobody seems to be in a flap and it |
| 18 | You do n't grasp it when you 're young , and if you 're born , obviously as a lot of the population now are , much younger , and have n't really been either touched or involved in a war , it 's very difficult , it 's something which we 've all seen on television , we 've all seen it at the films and you tend if you 're not careful , to pick up the glamorous side of it , you do n't realise I do n't think and in fact I keep saying this — I do n't think you can ever realise what it must be like to be in a battle until you 've actually been there . |
| 19 | They could see the train , but it seemed to be in a haze or a glowing flame . |
| 20 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 21 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 22 | I saw what she was — what she was to me — not what she seemed or would have appeared to be in a photograph or common portrait . |
| 23 | Mm , like , her dad says to her why do n't you be a doctor and she , but she do n't want to , you know , she wants to be in a hospital and that , she do n't want to end up in general practice |
| 24 | In fact , if I can time my travel to be in a place when a beer festival is on , I attend it . |
| 25 | On the other hand we are fortunate indeed if we happen to be in a business that is so secure that it is enough for us to make effortless decisions that never require us to do more than flow along with established patterns . |
| 26 | Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and Elinor took their places on the platform with Jeremiah Scrape and Swire Sugden , who appeared to be in a hurry and frequently consulted his watch . |
| 27 | It is wonderful to be in a town when there is a festival on . |
| 28 | There were five informal carers who said at their first interviews they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in an institution but who had not had that preference fulfilled a year later ( Table 5.6 : three in the action samples , two in control ; four in Ipswich , one in Newham ) . |
| 29 | You have to learn to be like a doctor or a nurse , detached , is n't it ? " |
| 30 | This suggests that our results are not solely due to being in a group but depend upon some ‘ active ingredients ’ for effective change inherent in the Cognitive–Behavioural approach . |