Example sentences of "[prep] be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 2 | Your stepson has to get used to a whole new family , which is a big shock for him after being an only child . |
| 3 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 4 | Oh I yeah , he got this , this er must of been a good metal detector you know |
| 5 | Oh I can , I can understand what must be going through her mind , it must still of been a terrible time . |
| 6 | I suppose I can understand it now , I mean it must of been a lovely place , and then to have all these new houses going up you know , but erm , I mean there was some lovely , lovely lanes |
| 7 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 8 | The first form talked about it more than any one else , of course they squealed with laughter when they saw the poor Mary Lou Manselle and Gwendoline , all falling victims to the same spider , jolly clever spider said Irene , it means the only three people in the form that it that would be scared of it , I take my hat off to that spider , ca n't think why it chose my desk said Mary Lou , no , that was a shame said Gwendoline , poor Mary Lou it must of been an awful shock for you when you saw it , I wonder who put it there ? |
| 9 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 10 | the laws of that could of been an important element of competition |
| 11 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 12 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 13 | In fact , the whole discipline will become more applied in the sense that the emphasis will be shifted from laboratory studies , which seek to isolate variables in the abstract , towards being a social science , which examines socially shared beliefs , or social representations , in their actual social context . |
| 14 | Unikix , acquired back in January by Bull 's US systems integration arm , Integris , is expected to boost the group 's drive towards being an out-and-out systems integrator . |
| 15 | Yet if she had she would have imagined for him someone like Mrs Pascoe , someone who gave an instant impression of being a first-class housekeeper ( the house was immaculate , everything well chosen and highly polished ) and combined energetic work for her local community with a modest reticence about herself . |
| 16 | 3 years ago , Karin Anyon decided she 'd had enough of being a diving widow ; her husband Nick was always away diving with the Milton Keynes Diving Club . |
| 17 | The idea of a triangle is made up from the ideas of being a closed figure , and having three straight sides ; the idea of gold from those of yellowness , malleability , and fusibility . |
| 18 | Posidonius has the reputation , to a certain extent justified , of being a religious soul . |
| 19 | The other is the emergence of new , third world competitors that deploy their resources in innovative ways that sometimes can minimise the handicaps of being a late entrant into established markets . |
| 20 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 21 | But beyond all this , Malham goes about its business of being a living Dales village , with its farms and farmers , its village hall and little shops , very much in the way it has always done . |
| 22 | His parallels are drawn not from primates , but from his own work on the advertising art of New Guinea bowerbirds , and the handicap of being a male bird of paradise with a three-foot tail . |
| 23 | There is no dispute that that boundary is capable of being a suitable greenbelt boundary . |
| 24 | But I believe from the written evidence that there is equally no dispute that the boundary which has existed for ten years , the tight boundary , is also capable of being a suitable greenbelt boundary if indeed there is to be an inset . |
| 25 | For 42-year-old Julie all the usual conflicts of being a working mother are heightened by her daughter 's illness . |
| 26 | Mr Branson has no intention of being a Classic FM , which as a classical-music channel has limited appeal . |
| 27 | One of the benefits of being a progressive organisation is that Abbey National is able to recruit senior financial sector professionals to roles which truly reflect their status . |
| 28 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
| 29 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
| 30 | At the age of 44 , Keith Cardwell is now in his thirteenth year of being a professional photographer . |