Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | At heart I 'm just a reporter , out on the road with a film crew . " |
2 | ‘ At least , I could n't fault him , but of course I 'm only a beginner . ’ |
3 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
4 | ( In Artillery Lane , nearby , there is a warehouse which was originally a Huguenot chapel . ) |
5 | Past Hut 3 , turn to the left , past the gate and Administration which was now a darkened hulk , past where the roof of the camp 's prison peeped over the fences , turn to the left , past Hut 4 , past the old Kitchen which was now a sleeping hut , past the Bath house and then Hut 6 , past the Store , turn to the left , past the Guard Room , turn to the left , past Hut 1 … three hundred and eighty-five paces … |
6 | For example , when choosing a carpet for the bedroom which is obviously a light wearing area , bright colours or pastel shades are idea . |
7 | This underscores the paradoxical nature of these investments : while they invest in notoriously volatile markets , the returns they produce are extremely solid , as befits an investment which is also a hedge . |
8 | If the Secretary of State believes that he can get rid of tariffs , why does he support the Common Market , now known as the European Community — that big business club which is essentially a conspiracy against the working class and is certainly not wholeheartedly supported on this side of the House ? |
9 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |
10 | Craig had fielded twice as many candidates and won fewer seats ; a result which was probably a combination of public reaction to Vanguard 's lack of clear policy and a lack of enthusiasm for some of the Vanguard candidates . |
11 | They wanted this colossal rent which was just a recipe for bankruptcy , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
12 | Mick Ronson : ‘ After the tour , we recorded the album , ‘ Pin-Ups ’ , an album which was just a collection of songs that David really liked from the 60's period , and shortly afterwards , we went to Italy for a holiday . |
13 | If the seller commits any breach ( even a minor one ) of a term which is clearly a condition , the buyer will be entitled not only to damages but also to reject the goods and treat himself as discharged from his obligations . |
14 | Reinscription is an oppositional practice which is also a perspective and language ( sensibility ? ) constantly interpreting and re-presenting all sections of a culture including its dominant and subordinate fractions , its conventional ( e.g. heterosexual ) as well as deviant ( e.g. homosexual ) identities . |
15 | But erm , you know , there 's a wonderful picture , I do n't know if you 've seen it , by Salvador Dali , called Sleep , which is a kind of head-like figure , it 's a figure which is mainly a head with a kind of sheet draped over it , supported on crutches , lots of crutches , and this kind of represents this , and the idea that if one of the crutches were to move , the figure would wake up . |
16 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |
17 | It 's a mister you 're just a snowman . |
18 | Anyone entitled to free legal aid who is then a party to an appeal against a care or supervision order will qualify for non-means tested legal aid in respect of the appeal subject to a merits test . |
19 | They could n't hold one with a defendant who was just a mangled lump of flesh . ’ |
20 | Therefore , the historian to my mind who is really a lively and stimulating historian is going to be interested in the future as well as in the past . |
21 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
22 | — instructing an expert witness who was previously a client albeit in a matter totally unrelated . |
23 | If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil . |
24 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
25 | Is it because he 's a bear who is also a white European ? |
26 | The only woman in Tim 's early life who anyone can remember is Gillian Malpass — a tall , good-looking brunette who is now a senior editor at the London office of prestigious US publisher Yale University Press . |
27 | Klimt 's Jurisprudence , a ceiling painting for the University of Vienna , showed , not a belief in legality , but portrayed a central figure who was instead a helpless victim of the law . |
28 | In this condition she was hardly a siren , she thought with an ironic little smile . |
29 | ( According to the Japan Industrial Robot Association there was only a 10% increase during 1991 . ) |
30 | I think on this side there 's also a degree of corporate confusion at North Yorkshire about the what exactly the what exactly we we we 're trying to establish during this current round of er . |