Example sentences of "[prep] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's got ta be the kid on the sports day , your joking me |
| 2 | See they said righto , the employer has got ta be the Dock Commission . |
| 3 | because to me it 's , it 's something like that everything , it 's got ta be the C P U in n it ? |
| 4 | The winning nomination , sent in be the school 's assistant headteacher , Mrs. Brenda Hart , was a tongue-in-cheek statement that everyone worked together as a friendly and cheerful team to uphold school standards in spite of Government directives and the pressures of society ! |
| 5 | They have found that algae are thriving on nutrients from sewage , farm runoff and factory waste : when they die they drift to the bottom and consume the available oxygen ; water hyacinths clog the shallows , reducing the light and oxygen reaching the area where many of the native fish species live ; in the past the fish acted as a check on the algae , but more than 400 species have disappeared in recent years ; one culprit is considered to be the Nile perch , a large fish introduced in the 1950s . |
| 6 | I have to be the pilot . ’ |
| 7 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 8 | Janina 's family , Methodism and history turned out to be the answers . |
| 9 | The problem area 's going to be the yard because we did n't have enough people to count the yard . |
| 10 | ( Labour now claims to be the champion of ‘ modern manufacturing strength ’ . ) |
| 11 | For one who claims to be the champion of European unity , M. Delors is its worst advocate , having a unique capacity to raise the hackles of the British people . |
| 12 | Cos it , W W F , Paul Hogan used to be the champion |
| 13 | Well that seems to be the mood . |
| 14 | On the same day it was the opinion of every poll that Roy Jenkins had no chance at Hillhead and a slight fall in unemployment was said to be the herald of economic recovery . |
| 15 | A supernova , by contrast , would have been a ‘ one-off ’ phenomenon — and hence much more likely to be the herald of the arrival of someone of importance . |
| 16 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 17 | Within the chief engineer 's department the main responsibility for sorting things out fell on Group-Captain C. E. H. ( ‘ Charles ’ ) Verity , who came from one of the best pre-vesting undertakings ( the London Power Company ) , after a wartime spell of directing the bombing of German power stations , to be the headquarters Generation Construction Engineer . |
| 18 | The court may have ordered one party 's solicitor to conduct the conveyancing ; but if not so , it would seem appropriate ( assuming the husband to be the conveyancing or transferring party ) for the husband 's solicitors , if the house is in the sole name or even if it is in the joint names of the husband and wife , to deliver to the wife 's solicitors an epitome of title consisting of a copy of the last conveyance , copy of any mortgage , copies of any documents relating to " sales-off " or other transactions affecting the property and copies of any covenants affecting the same . |
| 19 | That is supposed to be the sprinkler system for wetting down the dust . |
| 20 | Gabriel thought they could be talking about Bathsheba , except that the woman they were discussing seemed to be the mistress of a farm . |
| 21 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 22 | He turned , bewildered , and saw a big man with spiky grey hair , a tanned skin and eyes that later always seemed to be the colour of phlegm . |
| 23 | But when the Sixties arrived , even elderly men starting sporting pink shirts ( pink ! — that just used to be the colour of their gin ) and sideburns . |
| 24 | Following an accident in the 1938 race , however , the Mille Miglia was banned in Italy the following year and a race purporting to be the Mille Miglia was held between Tobruk and Tripoli in north Africa and won by Ercole Boratto ( Ita ) , a former chauffeur of Mussolini . |
| 25 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 26 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 27 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 28 | ‘ Some women want the man to be the boss , they want him to be Daddy . |
| 29 | ‘ You have a desperate attempt by Prince Charles to be the boss . |
| 30 | ‘ I think a lot of supporters look for that because they all want to be leaders themselves — they want to be the boss , they do n't want to be the tea-boy . ’ |