Example sentences of "be [det] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Corporal ’ — her voice was clear and could have been that of a schoolteacher reprimanding — ‘ I have n't much opinion of my legs , but I can assure you you are not the type of man I would allow within parade ground distance of them , let alone pull them . ’ |
| 2 | His mainstream career prior to 1917 had been that of a journalist . |
| 3 | The kind of company he would most have liked would have been that of a family , his own . |
| 4 | For a few brief moments Carnelian 's face might have been that of a Polymorphine shape-shifter viewed at fast-forward speed passing through absurdly accelerated transformations . |
| 5 | And for two thousand years every Government has been that of an invader . ’ |
| 6 | But the judge did find the wording to be a very potent factor , and , after reviewing the guidelines discussed below , he found that the decision had indeed been that of an expert . |
| 7 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 8 | Newquay and Ilfracombe are each about an hours drive and worth a visit . |
| 9 | However , this may not have been much of a choice . |
| 10 | So he obviously would n't have thought the union would have been much of a threat to him seeing as he |
| 11 | ‘ There could not have been much of a selection this time , then . |
| 12 | It 's the blues that never been never been much of a problem really . |
| 13 | Has it been much of a problem on the flats ? |
| 14 | ‘ Nelson , I 've just never been much of a dancer . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's never been much of a plan , so there 's no reason to cancel out any initial plans of getting degrees and going on and doing something else . ’ |
| 16 | She could hardly have been much of a friend of Liza because , although her daughter had never been forthcoming about her time in the ATS , she had certainly never mentioned an Eleanor Fuller . |
| 17 | Ca n't have been much of a life . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's never been much of a man for dancing , not unless he 's drunk and then he 'll dance with the best of them . ’ |
| 19 | There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography . |
| 20 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 21 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 22 | He had never been much of a fellow for breasts . |
| 23 | Edna had never been much of a letter writer , preferring to send illustrated cards with emotive printed messages at Christmas and on birthdays . |
| 24 | Such an expedition takes time to mount , and there can not have been much of a gap between the Egyptian failure and the decision ( ? 453/2 ) to return to Cyprus . |
| 25 | Never been much of a book fan either . |
| 26 | Now he thought about it , Ted Mosse had n't been much of a talker . |
| 27 | There had never been much of a garden , only the rhododendrons flowering red and pink and lilac , where bees droned happily . |
| 28 | It had n't been much of a picture for dreaming on . |
| 29 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 30 | IT HAS not been much of a week for Welsh politicians because the country 's resounding rejection of Mr Neil Kinnock has been followed by the decision of the International Rugby Board to ignore the reservations expressed by the Welsh Rugby Union and to hold the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |