Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Magrath was a police psychologist , and they had met in Rome at an international conference on violent crime . |
| 4 | Sitting on the next barstool was an antiques dealer called James ; he discussed his feelings with Clare for the next two hours and then took her to dinner at the Ox on the Roof , where she chose the most filling dishes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ This gentleman is a police inspector , ’ said Mr Utterson . |
| 8 | Then , since this did n't appear to be enough either he hurried on , ‘ Her nephew is a police cadet . |
| 9 | It is therefore possible to say that any economic policy is an incomes policy , and in particular that any economic policy designed to prevent or reduce the rate of inflation is an incomes policy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Toney 's friend was a police superintendent who played at Birkdale . |
| 12 | In fact , the second person was a police officer . |
| 13 | An equally spirited occasion was an all-ranks Christmas dinner in England when an unliked commanding officer of the battalion rashly made a speech of greeting in Welsh . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is therefore possible to say that any economic policy is an incomes policy , and in particular that any economic policy designed to prevent or reduce the rate of inflation is an incomes policy . |
| 16 | The school library is a materials center , an instructional materials center , or any of the equivalent terms now springing into existence . |
| 17 | In like manner , the school librarian is a materials specialist , or an instructional resources consultant … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To take two able junior ministers at random , no-one could claim that Peter Lilley , the son of a personnel officer , or John Redwood , whose father was an accounts clerk , belonged in the patrician old Tory party . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | although his dad 's er , you know his dad 's a police surgeon ? |
| 26 | Minimum entry qualification is an Honours degree in Chemistry or its approved equivalent . |
| 27 | Aft of the pilots ' cockpit was an officers ward room , navigator 's table , two bunks and , further aft again , engineer 's station , wireless operator 's position , bunks for the crew and a baggage compartment . |
| 28 | SeaGen is an applications generator with its own virtual machine architecture . |
| 29 | Compare the way that his brother may be part of the " given " starting situation , or part of the allegation in : ( 77 ) Wally says that his brother is an arms dealer Does this imply that there is a possible interpretation of ( 76 ) where red-haired is the " given " and her the item that is not solidly established ? |
| 30 | Mr Mummery at the time was a police dog trainer . |