Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you 're a dick lover anyway ! |
| 2 | We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance . |
| 3 | I thought when I was looking at her talking and I thought , you 're a school mistress . |
| 4 | If you 're a school governor or a member of a P T A or just a parent , you must demand that the real facts of life and death are part of sex and hygiene education . |
| 5 | Thank you , Ellie , you 're a kind girl . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Aye , you 're a kind lass . |
| 7 | We 're a bio-technology company and in a sense we 're going to the Mecca of bio-technology . |
| 8 | ‘ You did n't miss much , unless you 're a sex maniac . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a sex object to me at this moment , ’ said Surkov . |
| 10 | ‘ On the other hand , if you 're a character actress you 're allowed much more freedom to question the role you 've been given , and to go more deeply into it to find a means of playing the part . |
| 11 | Even the interview system is not an ideal one — once again you 're having to sell yourself — and if you 're a character actor like I am I can not show myself without being somebody else . |
| 12 | And we do offer them a service , but they 're a specialist college , everybody |
| 13 | They can beef up your status if you 're a society hostess . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're a bit earl Randy You puttin' the clock forward ? , |
| 15 | We 're a little bit topsy and turvy cos er our programme researcher Sophie er is er is not with us today and as a result we 're a bit topsy and turvy and I have n't got all the papers associated with Foster and Allen but we 'll get all the details from F two lads when they come in . |
| 16 | Well real ones they 're a bit sort of do n't really go . |
| 17 | according to this , these excerpts from Judith Oakley 's book , they 're a bit sort of flexible in the definition of these |
| 18 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Besides , if you 're a drugs syndicate and want to murder someone who knows a bit too much , you do n't do it in the victim 's office , do you ? |
| 20 | They either automatically assume we 're just backing singers or we 're a folk outfit just because we use harmonies and acoustic guitars . ’ |
| 21 | The furthest section of the aquarium is a mass of caves and rockwork and there 's so much activity that you could n't fail to be entranced , whether you 're a cichlid fan or not . |
| 22 | Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ? |
| 23 | In that Mel and Kim song we wrote ’ We 're a dancing nation ’ , and that 's what the British are . |
| 24 | If you 're a financial institution that might be or data , and if you 're a manufacturing plant it might be process control information on P L Cs on the shop floor . |
| 25 | Now if you 're a majority party you can instruct officers to come up with a specially paid reduction pol you pay for the policy , so you can then structure the system or look at the service and come up with a reduction , come up with an expansion |
| 26 | You 're a night person , like me . |
| 27 | So got a special pass because you 're a firearms officer which is essentially deals with your authorisation to have a gun and reminds you of the law . |
| 28 | YOU 'RE A PLONKER VINNY ! |
| 29 | If you 're a DOS user , you learn the technique on DOS , and then if you move to Windows at some point the icons are the same . ’ |
| 30 | You 're a ski expert , I understand ? |