Example sentences of "[vb base] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now ISDN is a reality , the focus is moving away from the technology to its uses . |
| 2 | Now ISDN is a reality the focus is moving away from the technology to its uses |
| 3 | Ikonize is a screen capture utility specifically designed to allow you to cut up pieces of displayed graphics and use them for Windows icons . |
| 4 | All I want 's a bit of cooperation . |
| 5 | Want 's a transfer , there was hundred 's of people on the list to try and get this way , I mean it 's like this women who took Jane 's house , to swop Jane , she did n't even come and look at Jane , she said yes I 'll have it |
| 6 | Who want 's a game of golf ? |
| 7 | A small group demonstrators have staged a protest outside the U N Headquarters in New York calling for an end to what they say is a cover up over the existence of U F Os . |
| 8 | Mr Clinton occasionally lost his temper , but through all the flak he showed remarkable staying power , which his supporters say is a mark of his fitness to occupy the White House 's Oval Office . |
| 9 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 10 | Now the only thing I would criticize that for is that , quite often , your councillors , and you all know , think they are all wonderful words and I think they all think that they 're the Churchills of of of of our local council , but actually what they say is a load of boring old twaddle . |
| 11 | The last thing we want is a fight now . " |
| 12 | What you want is a location that is always comfortably filled . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ What I want is a country of real opportunity where everyone is free to choose . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , what the Government want is a symbol of unity . |
| 15 | Mr Maclean said : ‘ You have big companies here who are trying to compete and the one thing these companies want is a level playing field . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ All I want is a bed for a few days . ’ |
| 17 | The last thing you want is a chill . |
| 18 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 19 | The last thing that we want is a return to the spend , spend , spend — tax , tax , tax policies of the Labour party . |
| 20 | Yeah all we want is a turkey . |
| 21 | But all I want is a knob to say right film tonight |
| 22 | ‘ But what I want is a bit of time to myself . |
| 23 | Only when you 've got brothers like mine , what you want is a bit of peace . |
| 24 | So all you want is a bit of erm |
| 25 | All I want is a chance to prove myself . |
| 26 | Yeah , right I 've decided what I really want is a dick that , that , that drags on the floor . |
| 27 | What they want is a change in the structure of society much more radical than political adjustment . |
| 28 | All I , all I want is a carrier bag . |
| 29 | What the RFU want is a period of experimentation rather than a four-year moratorium , a view shared by the Irish RFU technical director George Spotswood , the WRU director of refereeing Ken Rowlands and even one of the leading advocates of reform — NZRFU chairman Eddie Tonks . |
| 30 | What we want is a dictatorship . |