Example sentences of "to be a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am too frail to be a moors walker . |
| 2 | Unknown to him , the stump on which he was standing happened to be a car-parts plant owned by Italians . |
| 3 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 4 | It is the Crown case the club was run as a business , yet for compensation purposes during a redevelopment scheme , was said to be a members club entitled to a higher rate of compensation . |
| 5 | There is also to be a pensions ombudsman with statutory backing . |
| 6 | added : ‘ There seems to be a skills gap , a lack of basic management training for managers . |
| 7 | ‘ The first product release is likely to be a Windows version of ‘ Oilwat/Gaswat ’ which is awaited by many existing and potential users of the package . |
| 8 | The central question , however , is : what does it feel like to be a humanities student ? |
| 9 | Will he tell them why , if there is to be a days-at-sea restriction , he can not pay fishermen the same financial support that farmers get when their land goes awry ? |
| 10 | A journey in a camper shades into a lift with a driver who turns out to be a narcotics agent ; the former episode is then repeated , with sado-masochistic variations , until that too shades into a bus journey . |
| 11 | Detention is supervised by a custody officer who turns out on closer inspection to be a police officer with a different name . |
| 12 | Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ Usually , ’ he went on , ‘ when there 's to be a police raid of any sort we know about it before it happens . |
| 14 | Next word , is it going to be a sports park , a field |
| 15 | Now there 's to be a schools painting competition about the bulldozers that can huff and puff and pull the house down . |
| 16 | There looked to be a communications breakdown in the Oxford defence . |