Example sentences of "[prep] be [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on , it appears , it is going to be all a question of fighting for market share . |
| 2 | It seems to be all a matter of priorities , of what is most important to people and how they choose to use their time . |
| 3 | But it was n't like him to be such a booby . |
| 4 | Then she took a deep breath , telling herself not to be such a fool , and stand her ground . |
| 5 | Andrew confided in me that if the officer had asked his permission to play the pipes on this occasion , he would have told him not to be such a fool . |
| 6 | I 'm terribly sorry to be such a nuisance . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm sorry to be such a nuisance . |
| 8 | She had not expected to be such a kind of girl ; she had watched this kind of girl for years ( the lips discreetly reddened , the loud laughter on the school bus , the tossing of long hair beneath rakish berets , the swinging of hips , the whispering in the garden ) but she had never expected to become one . |
| 9 | Ooh , they are going to be such a treat ! |
| 10 | A general problem that might be explored in the other place is how , if there is to be such a separation , we can ensure that fruitful , easy relationships continue to exist . |
| 11 | These have proved to be such a success that there is now a virtual two month long waiting list at Tyseley with booking now stretching into April next year . |
| 12 | ‘ Kalli ’ , who proved to be such a success with Warwickshire between 1971 and 1990 , has been signed on by Shropshire to play Minor County cricket now that he is English-qualified by residence . |
| 13 | The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns . |
| 14 | Is this because the construction of racialized identities depends on the existence of the Other , while at the same time it is this ‘ alien presence ’ which is seen to be such a threat to identity that its total annihilation is required ? |
| 15 | In the key marginal seat of Stretchford North , for instance , where John Grudge , nephew of the veteran retiring member Arthur Grudge , is standing for Labour against the Conservative Mike Jelkes ( formerly known as the Hon M. S. B. St J. St X. Haggard-Jelkes ) and the Liberal Democrat Frank Pale-Jones , a former official of the British Boring Board of Control , there is said to be such a degree of apathy that any one of the 26 ‘ fringe ’ candidates may easily win . |
| 16 | It 's going to be such a rush , I ca n't tell you . |
| 17 | This group , of parasites tend not to be such a problem in young dogs as roundworms . |
| 18 | If we get duplicate last year 's Yellow Pages it 's going to be such a problem . |
| 19 | immediately if there were to be such a disaster as a Labour Government . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's going to be such a party ! |
| 21 | For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever . |
| 22 | It got to be such a strain , though . |
| 23 | In view of the consents that are likely to be necessary for the transfer of assets , there will almost certainly have to be such a period . |
| 24 | For example , that ‘ the shortest distance between two points is a straight line ’ , would appear to be such a truth without the need of proof . |
| 25 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 26 | Apart from the thousands of common criminals who proved to be such a bane for Siberian society , the nineteenth century also witnessed a steady increase in the number of people who , either by judicial or administrative process , were banished to Siberia for political crimes — committed or suspected — against the state . |
| 27 | The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm . |
| 28 | For much of the next generation there could scarcely be said to be such a thing as a French army , for a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's soldiers came from Scotland . |
| 29 | There used to be such a thing as loyalty in this Dale . ’ |
| 30 | I told myself not to be such a snob . |