Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're a sex object to me at this moment , ’ said Surkov . |
| 2 | Well real ones they 're a bit sort of do n't really go . |
| 3 | according to this , these excerpts from Judith Oakley 's book , they 're a bit sort of flexible in the definition of these |
| 4 | Marianne Talbot , you 're a philosophy don at Pembroke College , a feminist and member of the Three Hundred Group , which wants to get three hundred women into Parliament by the year two thousand , what do you think of John Major 's treatment of women so far ? |
| 5 | Do you realise you 're a walking affront to him , Melanie ? ‘ |
| 6 | They 're a dance band with a message , pleasure politicians with some Big Ideas . |
| 7 | I 'm s sure sir , you 're aware it 's outside the City walls and if you 're commu commu If rail travel is possible from a new settlement to the Town Centre , the actual nu proportion of people using the rail , I would submit it would be very small , because say if you 're a shop worker in er Marks and Spencers , then you 've got a considerable walk from York City Station for example . |
| 8 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 9 | ‘ As long as it 's up to the standard of all the other music we play and in line with what listeners ’ tastes require us to provide , although opinions will inevitably vary regarding both criteria , especially as we 're a non-specialist station with specialist programmes . ’ |
| 10 | Unless of course , you 're a dab hand at water divining — something I 've not attempted yet ! |
| 11 | Anyone wishing to support the event — maybe you have a party trick to entertain people with — or perhaps you 're a dab hand at organising — should contact Richard Smallcalder extn 2321 . |
| 12 | And there are all sorts of methods of sort of cheating the system , if you 're a timber industry in Ghana . |
| 13 | you 're a hospital in-patient at the time the wig or fabric support is supplied or |
| 14 | I am a reference editor at Chambers Harrap ( the publishers ) . |
| 15 | Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test . |
| 16 | It is well known that I am a prize fighter by profession … |
| 17 | I am a lifetime supporter of British membership of the European Community , but I have never believed that that support implies acceptance of a united states of Europe . |
| 18 | They all laughed , for Breeze 's untidiness had been a school joke for years . |
| 19 | It 's been a beach carnival of rhetoric by the sea . |
| 20 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 21 | At one time it must have been a waiting room for clients . |
| 22 | Her father had been a history master at the local grammar school and Dotty had kept house for the old man until his death , when she sold their home , bringing some of the furniture , all the books , four cats , two dogs and a collection of medicinal herbs to her new home . |
| 23 | There has been a Medau class at this school for many years . |
| 24 | Mr Renton has been a board member since 1985 . |
| 25 | Gregory Butler has long been a field leader in this domain . |
| 26 | There 'd been a cowboy film on telly that afternoon and all the little ones had come out in their cowboy hats and were firing caps off at cats and down letter-boxes . |
| 27 | And Forne , merchant of York , who had been a master coiner at Nottingham now for years , and had thought his fortune made , no doubt , when he married the sister of Duncan — King Duncan , the last one to rule Alba and Cumbria . |
| 28 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
| 29 | PC Coupland has been a country bobby for 20 years . |
| 30 | But a car was seen slowing down at what might have been a pick-up point on the A12 . |