Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 3 | Needless to say , she had never been in a sports car before , and to be speeding and curving through the streets with the top open and the balmy August breeze combing silkily through her fine hair was sheer heaven . |
| 4 | She had never been in a cuttings library before . |
| 5 | Well what I 'm , we 'll go to a sp how much they are in a sports shop . |
| 6 | Within the Conservative party , aspiring candidates have to be on a candidates list maintained by the party 's national headquarters . |
| 7 | Been to a cattle market . |
| 8 | A being on a telecommunications base and the actual software associated with that as well . |
| 9 | That sums up the Labour party 's attitude , which is against a roads policy . |
| 10 | It 's best with the , what , the best way I 've seen it is with a numbers disk . |
| 11 | The competition is on a points basis for eight separate rounds , of which he only missed one . |
| 12 | Bernard 's original idea was for a 24″ tank next to the fire , but our series made him think again . |
| 13 | While there were enough differences between police tactics in separate areas to demonstrate that individual police officers retained some control over police operations , the strong overall impression was of a police force subject to central direction by senior chief constables and Home Office officials along lines determined by the Cabinet . |
| 14 | Six goals … two penalties … a sending off … a carrying off … a touchline bust-up … the Manor Ground was like a fireworks factory on saturday as Denis Smith kicked off his reign as manager of Oxford United |
| 15 | I think he was in a munitions factory somewhere near Baghdad and the stress had certainly precipitated quite a serious heart condition and that was under a relatively peaceful situation , so if there was any sign of war out there that would obviously be tenfold . |
| 16 | Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . |
| 17 | Best who was at a Lions selection meeting in Edinburgh yesterday morning , reckoned the margin and manner of Scotland 's 20-0 victory would certainly have England worried and that he expected a cracker of a game on Saturday week at Twickenham , where Scotland have won only twice , in 1971 and 1983 , since the Second World War . |
| 18 | He was at a police station , being questioned . |
| 19 | Emma Butler , 12 , was at a sports day with her family in May when the accident happened at the European School for children of nuclear scientists near Abingdon in Oxon . |