Example sentences of "be [pron] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Are you a police officer ? " |
| 2 | Were you responsible for the horse or were you a cattle man ? |
| 3 | A certain draw will be the presence of village bands from Reeth , Muker and Hawes along with the Band of the Year , Grimethorpe Colliery , whose soloist is himself a Dales lad , from Arkengarthdale . |
| 4 | Is there a repairs problem in West Belfast ? how does the repairs system operate at the present time ? is the policy of employing contractors for repairs adequate ? are tenants rights safeguarded in the tendering policy of the Housing Executive in regards to accountability to the community and the standard of work carried out ? |
| 5 | Is there a sports day then ? |
| 6 | You will need a detective , be it a police officer or some individual caught up for good reason in the investigation , who is capable of seeing deeply into people 's characters , of putting himself like Simenon 's Maigret into , not so much other people 's hoes , as into other people 's minds and souls . |
| 7 | ‘ To me the Lotus Seven was everything a sports car should be . ’ |
| 8 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |