Example sentences of "[verb] be a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prices given are a guide line for the reader and are normally based on the cost of one person sharing a double or twin bedded room with breakfast included ( a single guest should expect to pay more ) . |
| 2 | Included are a water wheel , water float , his very own magnetic brave diver who dives from Bathtime Bear 's nose and slides down a shoot into the water . |
| 3 | Also included are a SCSI disk driver , NFS and TCP/IP protocols and an Ethernet driver . |
| 4 | Also included are a SCSI disk driver , Network File System and TCP/IP protocols and an Ethernet driver . |
| 5 | Where there has been a gang fight , as a result of which one of the participants is injured , it is sometimes impossible to prove who was responsible for causing the injury ( because of the general mêleé , and because of identification difficulties when the incident occurred at night ) . |
| 6 | Japan has been a problem area for E&Y since its merger in 1989 . |
| 7 | Mayotte , part of the Comoro archipelago , is administered by France and has been a collectivité territoriale since December 1976 [ see also above ] ; it has its own 17-member elected General Council , sends one deputy to the National Assembly in Paris and one member to the senate . |
| 8 | What they have combined with this has been a church growth philosophy that has been remarkably successful . |
| 9 | Britain has been a loser country in a manifestly unfair trade environment . |
| 10 | Handing them over to people outside government who know their local community has been a quantum leap in the delivery of Government policies in the important areas of training and skills . |
| 11 | There has been a quantum leap in the range and quality of wines marketed in the UK . |
| 12 | Christine has been a nursery school teacher for 27 years , which undoubtedly helped . |
| 13 | Indeed , each of the five times since 1915 that there has been a minority government in power it has been Labour , dependent either on the Liberals ' support , their abstentions , or on all the other parties not uniting to defeat them . |
| 14 | General practice research has been a minority activity and underfunded in the past |
| 15 | This has been a minority view for 15 years or more , but one kept alive by the persistent efforts of Chip Arp , of the California Institute of Technology , who has over the years produced a series of photographs which show objects with very different redshifts that are physically connected by streamers of material . |
| 16 | PC Coupland has been a country bobby for 20 years . |
| 17 | This was the first time there has been a flower show at Hampton Court Palace , and in my opinion it is a wonderful innovation which I hope will become an annual event . |
| 18 | When the door closed Harvey poured more coffee for us both , and said , ‘ This has been a spectator sport for you so far , but now you are going to join the men . ’ |
| 19 | Graeme Fowler , Gehan Mendis and the skipper Neil Fairbrother have all been ruled out with injuries , but there has been a plus side with the way young lads like Nick Speak , Graham Lloyd , Steve Titchard and Peter Martin have responded . |
| 20 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 21 | But death — specifically heroin-induced — has been a talking point amidst US underground circles recently . |
| 22 | As the Regional Library Bureau for Scotland , Lending Services , in common with the other Regional Library Services in the UK , has been a Founder Member of the Library and Information Co-operation Council since its inception in 1988 . |
| 23 | In the recent past Stephen has been a rebel hero , and despite his good intentions he is pressurised into rejoining the terrorist cause . |
| 24 | My wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years . |
| 25 | Almost from the start he has been a university teacher who has , so to speak , a ‘ hard hat and a pair of stout wellington boots constantly in his car ’ . |
| 26 | It 's just that if there has been a price increase , then the end date wants changing as well . . . |
| 27 | Noel Hayes , a stockbroker who in his time has been a building analyst and up until the beginnig of this year was head of sales at Citicorp-Scrimgeour Vickers , becomes chief executive and Sam Oxford , the former chairman of Magnet & Southerns , joins as a non-executive director . |
| 28 | It has been a public relations exercise for this week 's by-elections . |
| 29 | This may be the case where there has been a separation order , a decree nisi for divorce , a non-molestation order , or a separation agreement between the parties . |
| 30 | Alameda has been a navy town since the second world war . |