Example sentences of "to be [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The members of the IRA claim to be soldiers fighting a just war , but real soldiers are bound by the terms of the convention . ’ |
| 2 | The members of the IRA claim to be soldiers fighting a just war , but real soldiers are bound by the terms of the Geneva convention . |
| 3 | Even those Conservatives who claim to be Europeans have a mean and narrow idea of the European project . |
| 4 | The really frightening aspect of what is going on is that the alternative to Mr Yeltsin would seem to be chaos involving a complete economic breakdown , from which only extremists could benefit and all of us would suffer . |
| 5 | However , a man claiming to be Wells contacted a national newspaper last week and told a journalist he was forced to steal the money by gangsters and never left the country . |
| 6 | General practitioners do not have to be fundholders to take a contracting approach to improve communication with social workers . |
| 7 | For example , on almond trees : ‘ I find them to be trees making a good hedge in a short time … look well round a little wilderness quarters planted with flowering shrubs in a small garden . ’ |