Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
| 2 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 3 | Unless unless you 're worth a bob or a hundred . |
| 4 | If you 're not doing it like that and you 're in a conversation or atmosphere in the room , when I find it , this little gadget is wonderful , this will pick up for a long way , this will pick up the dogs next door , if there was no other noise in this room . |
| 5 | I think having a car you do make more unnecessary journeys — when you 're on a bike or public transport you really have to plan well ahead . |
| 6 | if you 're on , if you 're on a motorway or a carriageway , right |
| 7 | If you 're on a sailing or windsurf holiday you may still book without a supplement if you 're willing to share with someone on the same holiday . |
| 8 | You know how it is on ferries — you get a bit disoriented , you never know if you 're on A deck or B deck , or which bit of the outside you 're getting to when you go through a door — the front , the stern , or the sides . |
| 9 | You 've not been near a phonebox or a letterbox . |
| 10 | Until you are within a minute or two of your ETA , there is no need to call for QDMs more frequently than at a half to one minute intervals . |
| 11 | Approaching Keld I dropped down into the dale where Great Sleddale Beck falls over a succession of stairs , hard bands of limestone that have resisted the action of the water to form an impressive series of falls all of which are within a mile or so of Keld village . |
| 12 | It might have been in a fight or something ? |
| 13 | Have these people been in a time-machine or chained in dimly-lit rooms in Beirut ? |
| 14 | I wo n't the amount of times I 've I 've been in a car or something , where fucking jump on the brakes ! |
| 15 | This is especially true if the stables are in a shed or barn . |
| 16 | Relax deeply , then imagine you are in a landscape or townscape of some kind . |
| 17 | This is true whether you are in a desert or a forest or swimming on a coral reef . |
| 18 | But take Old Shallot 's advice : if you are in a boat or barge which has been holed , particularly one where the damage is malicious , stop rowing and block that hole for any further movement of the barge simply helps the water rush in . |
| 19 | If you are in a hurry or feel resentful , that will be obvious . |
| 20 | Suppose you sometimes feel tempted to drive faster than the allowed speed limit , perhaps because you are in a hurry or because you decide that it is quite safe to do so and that the speed limit is unnecessary . |
| 21 | Never keep callers waiting while you look for information or try to transfer them , etc. , without explaining what you are doing and giving them a chance to call back if they are in a hurry or if they are calling long-distance . |
| 22 | Opportunities for specialists in an information-based business organization should be more plentiful than they are in an orchestra or hospital , let alone in the Indian civil service . |
| 23 | Moreover , if the Withington mosaic is to be associated with the work of this group ( at the integral level ) it must be as a parallel or subsequent development . |
| 24 | And so it can be for a building or a workbench . |
| 25 | The innovation may be for a building or construction project which was completed between 1 January 1987 and 12 October 1990 . |
| 26 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 27 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 28 | It would , after all , only be for a week or so , after that they were due back at Purley . |
| 29 | It could be through an art-form or simply by a love of nature . |
| 30 | The anti-recording position assumes that a sound recording is literally a record of a live event , a memento of it , as a snapshot might be of a holiday or a family event . |