Example sentences of "[noun] be a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No vanity here : the result is a warts-and-all publication intended as salutary reading during management training . |
| 2 | The road blocks were a police response to criminal action , a counter to terrorist attacks in this area , he said . |
| 3 | ‘ Spielberg is a games fanatic himself and has a hands-on involvement to ensure the final result is as faithful as possible to his original idea . |
| 4 | Like Tom Boyd , who took advantage of a Youth Training Scheme place at Motherwell to launch a successful career , McQuilken is a YTS lad . |
| 5 | Mrs. Millings was doubly lucky , in that she ran into one such gap , and the approaching vehicle was a police car , with an extremely good driver . |
| 6 | Magrath was a police psychologist , and they had met in Rome at an international conference on violent crime . |
| 7 | The Spanish victory of Bailén ( July 1808 ) was the inevitable consequence of Napoleon 's belief that the conquest of Spain was a police operation that could be entrusted to inferior troops . |
| 8 | So there 's a good year and a half at Southwell so I know the area , in fact I was over at Southwell when Simon was a police officer , covering the area . |
| 9 | My husband and I bought Millie as a companion for Mac , my Standard Poodle , and for my peace of mind , as my husband is a police officer who frequently works nights . |
| 10 | A few years ago Saunderson was a tele-communications student at the local East Michigan University . |
| 11 | He preached the importance of youth ( ‘ Everyone over 25 should be shot ’ ) when he was himself about to enter his late twenties ; he said his band was a singles band with a short life span ( ‘ We 'll made four great records and retire ’ ) ; and he said Wedding Present songs and sets would always be very short ( sets now last an hour and songs like ‘ Take Me ’ , for over eight minutes ) . |
| 12 | ‘ This gentleman is a police inspector , ’ said Mr Utterson . |
| 13 | Then , since this did n't appear to be enough either he hurried on , ‘ Her nephew is a police cadet . |
| 14 | Because BoP is a Windows application , you have access to all the fonts you 've got in your Windows system . |
| 15 | One thing 's for certain , Horton is a bollocks manager who could n't inspire fish to swim . |
| 16 | " The only person likely to use one of the old codes is a police officer . " |
| 17 | Technalysis is a services company developing applications , products and systems on mainframe , mid-range and microcomputers ; Compuware wants it to expand its presence in the US mid-west . |
| 18 | Toney 's friend was a police superintendent who played at Birkdale . |
| 19 | In fact , the second person was a police officer . |
| 20 | Madrid-based Sistelcom is a telecommunications consortium belonging to the Central Hispano Group , which was set up in 1991 to design and operate advanced telecommunications services within the framework marked out by the government 's liberalisation of the telecommunications market . |
| 21 | At the corner of Fore Street and St Marychurch is a Bygones replica of a Victorian street , ‘ now with authentic smells ’ , in a former cinema , open every day and complete with militaria and railway collections , coffee and souvenir shops . |
| 22 | The school library is a materials center , an instructional materials center , or any of the equivalent terms now springing into existence . |
| 23 | In like manner , the school librarian is a materials specialist , or an instructional resources consultant … |
| 24 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 25 | His father was a police constable in the borough police at Helston , but the family emigrated to New Zealand , probably in 1872 , and settled at Timaru , South Island , where most of the settlers were of Cornish descent , and James Fitzsimmons set up as a blacksmith . |
| 26 | The only described white man is a police man from Brooklyn who works with his black partner to try and extract information from a black boy , Imamu , after the daughter of the family he is living with goes missing . |
| 27 | G Lawrence of Great Barr , Birmingham is a police dog handler with 10 years ' experience of owning German Shepherd dogs . |
| 28 | By day this means that the sun terrace around the pool is a sun-worshippers paradise — the only occasional movement being the trip to the poolside bar for a little light refreshment or a game of pool . |
| 29 | Albanian hotels are a travellers nightmare , but the country shares the same climate as Greece and Italy . |
| 30 | Old school is a back-to-basics reaction to the sportswear industry 's increasing reliance on pink and pastel , splash and spray , an apparent brainstorm which has forced people who have no desire to look like an explosion in a paint factory to search in discount stores and back-of-beyond sports shops for the design classics of the recent past — nylon Adidas track tops with the simple three-stripe design on each arm , or a pair of shell-toed trainers . |