Example sentences of "[prep] be a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it might of been a women that was . |
| 2 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |
| 3 | Eddie McDermid tackles the administration side of being a salesmen using his car as a mobile office . |
| 4 | This is more obviously the case with the Devil 's Pulpit , at Tealby , Lincolnshire , which is a natural rock outcrop with the tradition of being a witches ’ meeting place . |
| 5 | The Doctor marched towards a Georgian building which bore all the signs of being a sailors ' brothel . |
| 6 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 7 | the whole business looks like being a swings-and-roundabouts affair ; but the worst should be known by about March unless there are any further hold-ups . |
| 8 | ‘ I am too frail to be a moors walker . |
| 9 | Unknown to him , the stump on which he was standing happened to be a car-parts plant owned by Italians . |
| 10 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 11 | It is the Crown case the club was run as a business , yet for compensation purposes during a redevelopment scheme , was said to be a members club entitled to a higher rate of compensation . |
| 12 | There is also to be a pensions ombudsman with statutory backing . |
| 13 | added : ‘ There seems to be a skills gap , a lack of basic management training for managers . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | A few Labour Councillors , a Labour M P , two or three Trade Union representatives , a G P a G P who happens to be a Councillors , Labour Councillor 's wife and one or two others |
| 16 | But to be a Naulls , formed out of the same genes as Uncle Stanley , mouthing platitudes in the council chamber , or weedy , weak-eyed Uncle Leonard , that was intolerable . |
| 17 | There 's soon to be a beginners ' wall as well , but the most impressive construction is an immense leading wall built by DR Climbing Walls . |
| 18 | The central question , however , is : what does it feel like to be a humanities student ? |
| 19 | Will he tell them why , if there is to be a days-at-sea restriction , he can not pay fishermen the same financial support that farmers get when their land goes awry ? |
| 20 | It happened to be a goods ' entrance , and as she pushed open the heavy doors and slipped inside the deafening noise hit her — of hammering and drilling and the drone of the hydraulic pumps that operated the floor levels together with the shouts of the men operating the overhead cranes . |
| 21 | I think it 's difficult to be a women in that way . ’ |
| 22 | Do you think it 's harder to be a women than a man in today 's world ? |
| 23 | in favour er in his pursuit of er deregulation in scrapping all regulations er er about fraud , attempts to stop fraud , controls on fraud and is like this , is deregulation going to be a fraudsters fun day ? |
| 24 | ‘ Have to be a stewards ’ enquiry , ’ he said painfully . |
| 25 | A journey in a camper shades into a lift with a driver who turns out to be a narcotics agent ; the former episode is then repeated , with sado-masochistic variations , until that too shades into a bus journey . |
| 26 | ‘ Train In Vain ’ is n't listed on the sleeve for ‘ London Calling ’ because it was originally going to be a flexi give-away with NME . |
| 27 | Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name . |
| 28 | ‘ Usually , ’ he went on , ‘ when there 's to be a police raid of any sort we know about it before it happens . |
| 29 | Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway . |
| 30 | Next word , is it going to be a sports park , a field |