Example sentences of "be [adv] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're not a drugs band and we 're prepared to fight for our beliefs . ’ |
| 2 | You 're not a police officer . ’ |
| 3 | UI will no longer be just a requirements body or a marketing arm for USL . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . |
| 6 | I think it 's only a Windows thing . |
| 7 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 8 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |
| 9 | The Stag is not a sports car , nor is it especially fast : any modern GTi hatchback will comfortably outpace it in a sprint from rest to 60mph . |
| 10 | Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court . |
| 11 | Mr Kydd , who on Saturday challenged ‘ there is not a police force in the country can keep these roads open ’ , added ‘ we are now entitled by the court to have meetings and if we wanted to we could have half a million up there . ’ |
| 12 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 13 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 14 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 15 | Yeah , I , I could say well that 's not a police issue and then forget about it but that 's not really a good response , ? |
| 16 | So the emphasis now is more on the people themselves , basically Neighbourhood Watch is your scheme , it 's not a police thing , we support it , we pay for the hall tonight , we pay for the signs for the street and we give you all the literature free , but it is your scheme and it 's how you want it to be . |
| 17 | It 's not a savings plan . |
| 18 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 19 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 20 | There is also a games room with table tennis , pool and video games and normally some sort of activity or entertainment going on . |
| 21 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
| 22 | For those who prefer something a little more energetic , there 's also a darts board and a pool table . |
| 23 | Old Tintern Station , just off the A466 is now a visitors centre and museum , with the original station buildings restored and used as an excellent refreshment room , plus a fine display of artifacts from the railway scene . |
| 24 | As many retired Rentokil folk are probably aware there is now a Rentokilonians society based in East Grinstead . |
| 25 | But if you start talking about taking some of the cash from the fund , you 've got to tell the clients it could affect the cover that they 've got , because it is n't a savings policy . |
| 26 | There 's even a poisons database . |
| 27 | We know that the Park and Ride situation , while it 's got a lot going for it , is almost a thieves paradise . |
| 28 | They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game . |
| 29 | First , for many assets ( such as stock market indices ) there is either a futures market or a forward market , but not both , and so a direct comparison is not possible . |
| 30 | Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator . |