Example sentences of "to be a [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The source alleged that in the recording — said to be a phone conversation during 1989 — the man called Di ‘ darling ’ and gave her the nickname ‘ Squidgy . ’ |
| 2 | I figured there were a whole lot of answers inside that building and I figured that like or not there had to be a back entrance to it somewhere . |
| 3 | Party Politics looked to be a back number after having won the National last year but he was then tubed for his wind and ran a storming race to take the Greenall Chase at Haydock at the end of February . |
| 4 | My green cord trousers came next , followed by my fawn Kickers boots , lables removed as from everything I wear because I refuse to be a walking advertisement for anybody . |
| 5 | It will have to be a crash course as the Rugby World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield are less than five weeks away . |
| 6 | To be a Capellan princess in exile , I mean . |
| 7 | One of these was said to be a £5m loan to Raper 's master company , the Hong Kong and Netherlands based Gasco Group . |
| 8 | The day before his TV appearance around Peter Sissons ' round table , Lilley was in the North-East for what turned out to be a dress rehearsal of his election strategy . |
| 9 | However this vision was also one of tidiness , he advised : " An adjoining room to be a dressing room in which you can dress and undress . |
| 10 | There is also to be a pensions ombudsman with statutory backing . |
| 11 | And , as mentioned colleagues , there is to be a bucket collection for Swan Hunters at lunch time . |
| 12 | I want to be a cadet officer in the Guards — Grenadiers , Coldstream sort of thing . |
| 13 | The EC is producing a regulation intended to be a management tool for the evaluation and improvement of environmental performance with the provision of relevant information to the public . |
| 14 | This is a position which requires the researcher to adopt a false role , for example , pretending to be an author looking for atmosphere for a book or pretending to be a management trainee with a firm . |
| 15 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 16 | There is unlikely to be a consensus view amongst the parents or even in the staff room about standards in these matters . |
| 17 | There is unlikely to be a consensus definition of the boundaries between background knowledge and the specific issues addressed in individual papers . |
| 18 | ‘ The first product release is likely to be a Windows version of ‘ Oilwat/Gaswat ’ which is awaited by many existing and potential users of the package . |
| 19 | Someone had told them there was to be a memorial service for Evangeline Booth that evening in the Regent Hall , which had once been a skating rink . |
| 20 | Ann 's wants to be a stress attack at the minute Ooh . |
| 21 | 2.2 Secondly , the implementation of the National Curriculum through the nineties will mean that the ‘ horizontal ’ extension of school language teaching across the ability range will be followed by a ‘ vertical ’ extension up the age range , since a foreign language is to be a foundation subject for all pupils between the ages of 11 and 16 . |
| 22 | These include the introduction of a Northern Ireland curriculum for all children of compulsory school age in grant-aided schools , and a pattern of assessment criteria and attainment testing much as in England and Wales ( though the first key stage is to end at the age of 8 , not 7 , and Irish is to be a foundation subject in Irish-speaking schools ) . |
| 23 | For a songwriter/artist who the music publisher believes has a good chance of success , it is quite usual for there to be a royalty split of 70:30 in favour of the writer . |
| 24 | In fact — he wants to leave school after O-levels. £6,000 a year down the drain ! ’ rather a loud voice ) ‘ If he wants to be a sheep farmer in Australia ? |
| 25 | While making no claim to be a specialist retailer of classical CDs , in recent years Woolworths performed a great service to collectors as the exclusive distributors of the much-acclaimed Naxos label . |
| 26 | You can train to be a Navy Cook without any particular previous formal qualifications , although any knowledge you bring from a technical college will give you an advantage . |
| 27 | Can it be demonstrated that what at first sight appears to be a paradigm case of indigenous , national forces dispossessing transnational corporations , is in fact a clear illustration of the emergence of the transnational capitalist class in Nigeria ? |
| 28 | The interior design of the TARDIS proved to be a text-book illustration of Cusick 's rule-of-thumb about seeking impressions as a guide to inspiration . |
| 29 | What may seem to be a work group to an observer may be a friendship group to the members . |
| 30 | THE husband of a heavily-pregnant woman found hanging in a garage told one of her friends that he used to be a backing guitarist for Eric Clapton , a court heard yesterday . |