Example sentences of "[to-vb] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the projects to benefit are a creche and health care bursaries . |
| 2 | This is because the need to reform was felt to arise from the normal attitude of aristocrats in the Germanic world that churches which they had helped to establish were a part of their material property . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm giving myself a chance to behave like a decent guy , and you a chance to try being a waitress , since for some unfathomable reason it meant enough to you to lie to get the job . |
| 4 | The most important thing to obtain is a recommendation . |
| 5 | I can illustrate County councils a dot blank here in eighty four eighty five an election year for county councils I E Essex County Council dot dot dot eighty nine an election year dot dot dot and ninety three you 'll all be er happy and delirious to know is a county council election year so next May Thursday county council elections will be held . |
| 6 | Whether they have a right to squat is an argument that will doubtless run and run . |
| 7 | However , as with other renewables the lack of control over the matching of electrical output to demand is a disadvantage . |
| 8 | If you 're small and the thing you evade is big ( have you ever had this dream ? ) , then the only place to hide is a place where the big thing ca n't fit . |
| 9 | In fact what he really wanted to meet was a dragon , but an elf would do . |
| 10 | I am old enough to remember being an underdog . |
| 11 | Nor was it in 1967 , when decisions to disenfranchise as well as to enfranchise were a possibility . |
| 12 | You may be able to fake being a grunge rock hero , a techno guru , or a new age ambient space cadet , but you can not fake being a pop star . |
| 13 | The power to evaluate is a power to control . |
| 14 | What we should try to create is a flagship of the labour movement . |
| 15 | First , it will have a preliminary question to decide which is whether the question it is asked to answer is a question it is empowered to answer . |
| 16 | The exquisite fragrance we like to remember is a product of the ripened maturity of their faith and not of its earlier stages . |
| 17 | ‘ The constant battle to remember 's a bit draining . ’ |
| 18 | The fact that he has also been of service to AIM is a bonus . |
| 19 | Arguably the urge to dichotomise is a product of indoctrination and not a native habit . |
| 20 | To put it another way the obligation to deposit is an obligation of the tenant assumed by him qua tenant and it follows that the correlative obligation of the landlord is an obligation assumed by him qua landlord … |
| 21 | The right to buy with a duty to replace is a good housing policy , but the right to buy without a duty to replace is a housing disaster . |
| 22 | The ability to lead was a characteristic once associated with nobility , an attribute of social rank . |
| 23 | All you need to play are a group of live-in couples , a New Year 's Eve party , a blindfold … and a sense of smell . |
| 24 | Those people will always find bad in what you do , but I 'm certainly not going to go out of my way to avoid being a subject for them to beat down on . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You know I 've never been able to combine being a father with analysis . |
| 26 | Cos all I 'd have to buy is a starter microphone then I 've got an instant dictaphone . |
| 27 | To find out how a word behaves the obvious place to look is a dictionary . |
| 28 | ‘ Fifty to win is a lot of money to lay out on an untried filly . ’ |
| 29 | So choose an opponent and prepare to play five-card poker : the incentive to win is a sequence of ( very blurry ) digitised photos of your chose model in various states of undress . |
| 30 | In between acting class and all-night parties at one of the homes of one or another of the inmates , Nicholson slotted in some compulsory service as a fireman , attached to an air-crash fire-fighting crew , which some have used to suggest was a draft dodge on his part . |