Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I want now is a head of department in a really good school , and then I 'd do what our head of department has done . |
| 2 | What I want today is a ban on tree felling in old growth and primary forest north and south . |
| 3 | We just say here 's a bucket . |
| 4 | a penny , say here 's a penny . |
| 5 | And we 're happy we once again say on the phone , Well what I want tomorrow is a deposit cheque , contract , bankers order and if you 've got copy available I 'll take that a juggle it around as you want . |
| 6 | What you really want then is a way to sort of happenings or embarrassments because you 're a bit stuck of where you want to go . |
| 7 | TAF probably is an abbreviation for Tactical Air Force — perhaps readers know better ? |
| 8 | Oop here 's a pie . |
| 9 | But really what it does it can either stand alone and print just be a printer put the data in and then . |
| 10 | You see look here 's a script all typed out . |
| 11 | While it 's always good to know the odd tuba player ( and let's face it , most of them are ) , Chase unfortunately was a fanatic , believing that there had been no good jazz since the King Oliver band . |
| 12 | Andermatt too is a place for travellers ' decisions : whether to return north back to Uri , or to choose one of the other three cardinal points of the compass for further travel . |
| 13 | What I like best is a job is a job . |
| 14 | I remember well being an economics teacher in the awful years of the Labour Government of the 1970s . |
| 15 | I found , too , an assertion that fashion today is a sign that women 's emancipation is well underway — a claim that can not go unchallenged . |
| 16 | or a bit in the B A I E Communicators Newsletter in Scotland you know here 's a member that 's launched a new publication for the Scottish prison service |
| 17 | What they often get instead is a pat on the back , a stack of reading matter , an order form and a two-day pep talk . |
| 18 | What we find instead is a kind of delinquent black camp . |
| 19 | ‘ Aid often is a springboard to trade … |
| 20 | " Chuck here is a deadeye , " replied the senator , ruffling the hair of his elder son . |
| 21 | That at least some of them do so is a platitude . |
| 22 | The network er what the miner 's strike created I think anyway was a sort of network of people Th and it was n't just through the usual trade union political party network it was or through the support groups really er it sets up a network of like |
| 23 | Ive said for a while that the missing ingredient in our side FOR THE WAY TEAMS PLAY TODAY is a bit of pace in central defence . |
| 24 | Well , for me , everything I do here is a continuation of the same old fight from the past . |
| 25 | What we offer here is a guide for you to follow when you list your own goals . |
| 26 | Lysander however was a hybrid . |
| 27 | They 've long been a part of the river 's past . |
| 28 | We 've all been a bit worried about you and I would love to see you . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 30 | You 've only been a reader for 32 years . |