Example sentences of "be [adv] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're not a drugs band and we 're prepared to fight for our beliefs . ’ |
| 2 | They 're not A types , and they do n't know why . |
| 3 | You 're not a police officer . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 're now a growers ' co-operative , ’ David Gardner explained . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not a children 's plaything to be toyed with , ’ he shouted . |
| 6 | After this remarkable visit , the volcano continued to be active for a week or two , but the explosive activity died down somewhat , and it began to look as though the eruption was going to be just a nine-days ' wonder , and would soon fade away and be forgotten . |
| 7 | UI will no longer be just a requirements body or a marketing arm for USL . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . |
| 10 | Skilful lobbying has meant that its place has been taken by wrestling on the curious promise that there will be both a men 's and women 's competition in 1994 even though women have never established a real presence in freestyle wrestling as they have in judo . |
| 11 | I think it 's only a Windows thing . |
| 12 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 13 | George could not face a life on his own , though I do n't think he would consider marrying because he is not a ladies ' man . |
| 14 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |
| 15 | Thus a fifth-century Thessalian inscription uses the phrase ‘ whether under a tagia or in an atagia ’ , that is , whether there is or is not a tagos ( Syll. 55 and ZPE , 1980 , p. 272 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not a police matter but an immigration matter , and he is being interviewed , ’ a Home Office spokesman said . |
| 18 | At Gbagbo 's trial , which began on Feb. 27 , lawyers called for all charges against him and 19 other defendants to be dropped " to prove to the world that the rule of law exists and that Côte d'Ivoire is not a police state " . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She 's currently doing the hippy thing with tassled flares , undressed hair and little round sunglasses but the feminine earth mother look is just a clothes change away . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although looking at quilts is n't everyone 's idea of a great day out , organisers are keen to point out that it 's not a women only pastime . |
| 25 | I warned you he 's not a ladies ’ man . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not a wives ’ meeting , it 's a workshop … and you 're behind , Chernayev … ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 , ? |
| 30 | It 's not a savings plan . |