Example sentences of "[be] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Right , erm So compounding this effect of asset fixity may be erm , the case where a number of similar products , or competing products er , their , their prices fall simultaneously , so if you 're , you know , if you 're wheat , if you 're a cereals farmer in the south east of England , alright , and the prices of wheat , barley , and virtually all , sort of , oil seed rape , anything else that you can use the land for , if they all fall , you know , there 's no point in switching production , alright , so you may continue to , to produce , even though the price of the product has fallen , alright , because the prices of all other competing products has fallen . |
| 4 | Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . |
| 5 | But also because you 're a police officer as well , you 've got the usual warrant card . |
| 6 | And the E I and the J and the P are if you like sort of part of the bodywork which decides whether you 're a sports car or a heavy goods |
| 7 | " Here mate , " one of them said in a puzzled voice , " You 're a customs officer , what the hell were you doing in there ? |
| 8 | ‘ I am a Spurs supporter and my kids would never forgive me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ My name is Deacon Billingsley — ’ he paused as though I should recognise the name , ‘ and I am a police officer . ’ |
| 10 | I am a police officer and he is my prisoner . |
| 11 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) in uniform ’ This point can be proved by starting the officer 's or the warden 's evidence by ‘ I am a police constable ( or traffic warden ) in such and such a police force and I was in uniform ’ . |
| 12 | I am a veterans visitor for JS and so come into contact with veterans who have served many years with the company . |
| 13 | Well I think it 's been a mans world , they , they 've had a wonderful time ! |
| 14 | There should n't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass . |
| 15 | IF it had been a Companies Act prospectus , it would have landed the entire Cabinet in jail . |
| 16 | For 15 years he 's been a warbirds enthusiast and would n't fly anything else … |
| 17 | Mr in December nineteen eighty eight , how long had you been a firearms officer , or tactical advisor ? |
| 18 | And excuse me , for how long had you been a firearms officer ? |
| 19 | And how long had you been a firearms officer ? |
| 20 | Indeed no one who is , or has been a police officer can be appointed . |
| 21 | Bracewell has been a three-times loser in FA Cup finals , but this season his vault of knowledge has been a key factor — especially in the recovery at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea . |
| 22 | The Oxford and been a parts donor in the restoration of the RAF Museum 's Oxford l MP425 ( G–AITB ) which is now on show at the Newark Air Museum . |
| 23 | Saudi Arabia remained the only Arab state without diplomatic relations with China , but China had been a weapons supplier to Saudi Arabia since 1985 ; in addition the move was expected to open new links between Saudi Arabia and the Moslem minority in China . |
| 24 | Other things USL could usefully address , they say , are a systems management solution and a distributed security environment for Tuxedo . |
| 25 | If you are a Windows user who wants to be able to use your dBASE format files ( and applications ) under Windows , you will not find it very easy . |
| 26 | Albanian hotels are a travellers nightmare , but the country shares the same climate as Greece and Italy . |
| 27 | ‘ No ! … you can not do this to me … you are a police officer … you dare not … no ! … my God , no ! … ’ |
| 28 | Er , John work for Management Services , I 'm a Systems Analyst and been with C U for just over three years now . |
| 29 | I 'm a Customs officer and I arrest him ! ’ |
| 30 | I 'm a police officer . ’ |