Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 2 | JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 4 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 5 | Hey , I 've been in a Streaks and Tips recovery programme for many years . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 7 | Since then the pickup has been in a police pound near Cheltenham . |
| 8 | Needless to say , she had never been in a sports car before , and to be speeding and curving through the streets with the top open and the balmy August breeze combing silkily through her fine hair was sheer heaven . |
| 9 | He had been in a children 's home |
| 10 | She had never been in a cuttings library before . |
| 11 | Q I have bought a pair ( ? ) of Green Terrors ( Aequidens rivulatus ) which are in a 36″ × 12″ × 18″ tank with undergravel filtration . |
| 12 | They are in a 24″ x 15″ x 12″ tank with a large and small cave and a Swordplant . |
| 13 | Well what I 'm , we 'll go to a sp how much they are in a sports shop . |
| 14 | I 'm like a corgi — I keep smiling while my teeth are firmly dug in . |
| 15 | Well I , well I 'm on a weeks ' holiday are n't I , at Easter ? |
| 16 | Has to be on a runners on the side as well otherwise it would just fall down . |
| 17 | Within the Conservative party , aspiring candidates have to be on a candidates list maintained by the party 's national headquarters . |
| 18 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 19 | Been to a cattle market . |
| 20 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 21 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 22 | Asprey , 5p higher at 290p , is flush with cash and has been on an acquisitions spree in the last 15 months . |
| 23 | It was just happened to be spotted by Richard , fortunately , whilst he was erm , between jobs and actually being up a steps , walked in a saw the smoke coming out of one of the er , main switch areas . |
| 24 | She remembers being in a kids ' dance troupe called the Wee Winkies when she was a seven-year-old in Chicago , she enjoyed a run of successes on the TV talent show Star Search , and she was eventually spotted by Prince dancing in a Los Angeles nightclub . |
| 25 | You can place graphs and suchlike exactly where you want on-screen ( just as if you were in a Windows program ! ) , and the bundled Bitstream fonts ensure that everything looks identical on-screen to how it will eventually print . |
| 26 | We were in an ASUTRAMES meeting . |
| 27 | A being on a telecommunications base and the actual software associated with that as well . |
| 28 | Like being at a gravediggers ' convention , I thought , when one had marked out one 's first plot . |
| 29 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 30 | Mr Murphy was released yesterday after statements were produced in court from witnesses who said he had been at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Uxbridge , west London , at the time of the bombing . |