Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported , for instance , that of the nationally mixed marriages in Turkmenia from the 1920s to the 1970s , not a single one had been between a Turkmen girl and a Russian man . |
| 2 | The Flying Scot would probably have made the move before now — if it had n't been for a pact Laughton made when he left Widnes sixteen months ago . |
| 3 | I was just gon na say , some sometimes , I have n't been for a bit mind you , oh , well the last time I went , sometimes I go to Wales to Blaenau Ffestiniog or to congregation |
| 4 | And they have warned they are only prepared to leave services as they are for a trial period . |
| 5 | Whose Tongues are for a Week supply 'd |
| 6 | JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand . |
| 7 | Yet my life on the hills has been as a rock climber and someone who enjoys winter climbs on ice-covered crags . |
| 8 | It 's the lowest I have been after a Wales game for at least 18 months . |
| 9 | Biggins , who scored 22 goals last season and was on target again on Saturday , has been after a wage rise for some time and is currently on a weekly contract . |
| 10 | Or if you are of a nightmare disposition , the whole thing resembles the clinical and pageless world of Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 , a world in which there is sexual fetishism , but no books , and people are wired for sound and watch TVs implanted into the walls of their homes . |
| 11 | To those of us whose early political memories are of a labour movement torn apart by militant rhetoric and Scargill 's Leninism , the prospect of actually removing the Conservatives is inspiration enough . |
| 12 | First impressions are of a wine bar which also serves food . |
| 13 | These working-class women , they 're like a sheep trial . |
| 14 | Cos they 're , they 're like a cloth cloth belt . |
| 15 | if anything they 're like a spray snow . |
| 16 | The organisers would like to address the view that the infected are ‘ victims ’ , not just people living with the disease : ‘ A negative input only serves to make them feel they 're under a death sentence . ’ |
| 17 | On the tail , lane road , give way to vehicles coming towards you you must not overtake if you would have to cross or straddle double white lines with a solid line on the out of you , erm if you 're within a zig zag area , the pelican crossing , after a normal overtaking sign until the end of the restriction , do not overtake when you can not see far enough ahead , for example , when coming through |
| 18 | They 're in a sense voting with their feet , or not voting with their feet you know they 're not , they 're not voting , yeah . |
| 19 | unless he 's got five hundred in yo yo you feel as if you 're in a barn aircraft hanger . |
| 20 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 21 | You 're expected to behave as if you 're in a soap opera these days . |
| 22 | But if you , if you 're in a draught Jenny or John , say so . |
| 23 | When you 're in a defence industry that is inevitable . |
| 24 | All the reels retail at £49.95 : have a look at them next time you 're in a tackle shop — if there 's not one to suit , you 'll never be satisfied . |
| 25 | We make good time on the road from the motorway ; people actually help you overtake when you 're in a cop car . |
| 26 | What is time when you 're in a company hatchback surrounded by sweating execs in their hatchbacks , furiously scanning the radio for something other than Libby Purves ? |
| 27 | did you say we 're in a commune door ? |
| 28 | But on one of these days , and you hit the road there 's been an accident , somebody 's dug the road up , there 's something wrong and you 're in a traffic jam . |
| 29 | I do n't know whether , whether it sort of erm rang any bells with you but normally if you 're in a house people do n't offer you dri they usually say would you like a cup of tea or a cup of coffee and I just wondered , perhaps it 's my suspicious nature , whether this guy 's got a drink problem |
| 30 | You have to go through a short course at the R A F College Cranwell and then once that that teaches you the R A F side of it makes you into an officer because at the end of the day you maybe there to do public relations but if the spaghetti hits the fan you 're an officer and you 're a combatant and you know you carry a gun around when you 're in a war zone and you know you 're expected to use it and if the senior officer of the unit next to you gets shot and you 're the most senior officer then you take over |