Example sentences of "[pron] be [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly I have not read this but I am such a fan of the author and he is so well connected that he gets reviews everywhere , and I just wanted to slip it in . |
| 2 | Not mega yet , but I am such a fan I 'm pushing him high . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have told Perdita years ago , but I 'm such a drip I funked it . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm such a fool . ’ |
| 5 | It 's inside my head , Ruth thought ; I 'm such a coward , I hear things that are n't there . |
| 6 | I 'm such a bore ; do you forgive me ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm such a disappointment to you , Nahum . ’ |
| 8 | I mean , I 'm sure my mother does but I never believed her , I was always afraid of being like her and I 'm such a disappointment to her , so hopeless and not beautiful , not like my grandmother . |
| 9 | I have n't noticed I 've lost any weight only that me clothes have gone a bit loose , it must be only a couple of pounds literally but on Mrs scales I 'm half a stone lighter , but I do n't think so by tomorrow night I 'll be about eleven , ten |
| 10 | I was such a misery that by the end of the first week Elise asked a friend to help out in the shop , and packed me off to join him . ’ |
| 11 | And to think I was such a fool as to let it happen when I was thirty-five ! ’ ’ |
| 12 | I was such a party animal at the |
| 13 | Someone was half a length behind her on her outside but Kelly sensed that she had more in hand than he did . |
| 14 | These other departments are situated on two sites which are each a mile or so from the Main Library , and about two miles from each other . |
| 15 | Although fixed gill-nets may drown more tucuxi , they generally avoid shallow inshore areas , and are therefore rarely caught in the beach seines which are such a hazard for the boto . |
| 16 | LLNL is working with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory to try out the process on polychlorinated biphenyls , which are such a problem for conventional incineration . |
| 17 | The Tans were international traders , in partnership with family members based in Dobu in the Aru Islands , of mother-of-pearl shell and " tripang " — the highly priced sea-slugs which are such a delicacy for the Chinese . |
| 18 | A large percentage of recent spring birds have been recorded in parties flying up the Channel during the offshore movements of ducks , waders and terns , which are such a feature of spring migration in Sussex . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was all drowned out by the howling dogs which are such a feature of the district . |
| 20 | A large part of this was destroyed in the 1990 gales , but fortunately we had underplanted wherever possible and the magnolias which are such a feature of the garden survived remarkably well . |
| 21 | The man endued with the Holy Spirit is more than a match for the unclean spirits which are such a feature in Mark 's account . |
| 22 | And not just the C&P quality Awards which were such a success in their inaugural year . |
| 23 | In purely military terms it was an amazing success reflecting great credit on Britain 's small but all-professional armed forces — which were such a contrast to the much bigger conscript forces I remembered from the 1950s . |
| 24 | It was largely this greater efficacy in the treatment of epidemic infections which were such a scourge in those days that allowed homoeopathy to spread so quickly . |
| 25 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 26 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
| 27 | But how can land use planners reconcile this with the protection of the historic City with its scale and unique environment which is such a magnet to international service firms . |
| 28 | The Department of the Environment has circulated a small leaflet : ‘ How to help prevent it ’ dealing with the winter-time pollution which is such a threat to road usage . |
| 29 | I know how much thought and care you have expended on this wonderful work of art which is such a joy to look at , and I , as the proud possessor of this house , can never be sufficiently grateful to you for having given so much of your time in order to give me pleasure . |
| 30 | The criteria will ensure that the National Certificate 's flexibility , which is such a strength of the system , is not lost and will establish the ground-rules for negotiations with industry bodies . |