Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then you 've got your two prominent teeth , they could of been the tiger 's two teeth |
| 2 | Dustin played a timid bank clerk who dreams of being a ladies ' man , although he does not seem to be short of girlfriends . |
| 3 | The market must hope , however , that its business units do not emulate the mistakes which occurred after the City 's Big Bang and that the risky business of being a Lloyd 's investor becomes no more precarious . |
| 4 | The market must hope , however , that its business units do not emulate the mistakes which occurred after the City 's Big Bang and that the risky business of being a Lloyd 's investor becomes no more precarious . |
| 5 | The Doctor marched towards a Georgian building which bore all the signs of being a sailors ' brothel . |
| 6 | [ he ] … began to understand for the first time just how much there was in this business of being a ship 's officer . |
| 7 | In late May the Sudanese media began to accuse Saudi Arabia of being the SPLA 's main financial backer and supplier of weapons , and on June 11 it was reported that when army forces destroyed an SPLA camp at Kit ( about 45 km south-west of Torit ) , they had found " a huge quantity of military equipment manufactured in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia " . |
| 8 | Bovelander wears the unofficial tag of being the sport 's top penalty corner exponent — no goalkeeper likes to face his thunderous shots — but in the game between Ireland and Holland earlier this month , it was van der Honoret who took the strikes and ended up with a hat-trick . |
| 9 | The disadvantage of being the Society 's spinster is that I spend all weekend smelling of sheep . |
| 10 | He is the man who arrived with the reputation , justified or not , of being the Government 's avenging angel who was going to put to rights the cosy and costly BBC establishment . |
| 11 | She found the responsibility of being the Mayor 's wife almost too much for her , and was in a constant flutter for fear she forgot something in connection with the entertainment of the steady procession of guests , important to Tollemarche , who filed through her home . |
| 12 | Schaffer was still young enough to find his job largely exciting , but to find appealing the idea of being the force 's lone representative in the shadow of a major incident was not the same as embracing the reality . |
| 13 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 14 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 15 | C. dovil has the distinction of being the world 's second largest cichlid and will require a very large tank to reach its potential . |
| 16 | Anne 's ex was referred to as Captain Phillips and her children — unlike all the other young royals — are untitled despite being the Queen 's eldest grandchildren . |
| 17 | You 've got to mention in Scotland the one thing that we 've got to be proud of is the children 's panel system because |
| 18 | The winning nomination , sent in be the school 's assistant headteacher , Mrs. Brenda Hart , was a tongue-in-cheek statement that everyone worked together as a friendly and cheerful team to uphold school standards in spite of Government directives and the pressures of society ! |
| 19 | There was a a s an Indian student came to and he was a prospective Labour candidate , but the Labour Party prevented him from being a candidate er because er his main theme in life was to try and get India free from you know the British Empire . |
| 20 | That big room , apart from being the girls ' bedroom , was our pièce de résistance . |
| 21 | The United States may also be approaching the same conclusion , for between 1980 and 1988 it moved from being the world 's largest creditor to being its largest debtor . |
| 22 | Anticipation of the decision transformed the Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro stock markets from being the world 's worst performers in 1990 to currently the best . |
| 23 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 24 | Neither man , however , is commenting on the goings on which have turned Mr Lines from being the industry 's darling , he even had his 40-acre Teesport chemicals development blessed by Mrs Thatcher , into the pariah of the market . |
| 25 | Right there are two kinds of courts that policemen , well there 's several kinds of court , but the main courts that policemen go to are a magistrate 's court where there is what 's known as , they are magistrates or JPs , Justice of the Peace , and they sit there and you have to give evidence . |
| 26 | In the land behind me , in what used to be no man 's land is hidden the bunker where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide at the end of the war . |
| 27 | IT just has to be every teacher 's nightmare — to turn up for the new term and face TEN sets of twins . |
| 28 | Well and he used to come regular every Friday afternoon , and he used to go the s a ch lower down you know , after you pass the police station on the left there , there used to be a butcher 's place there . |
| 29 | This dialogue between her and her admirer , Morland Beddoes , is most significant — it deserves to be a locus classicus of criticism , and gives the final justification for Elizabeth 's sort of art : |
| 30 | The ceremony was hosted by a couple dressed in matching velvet Babygros , his tipped off by a woolly bobble , hers with what appeared to be a cat 's tail . |