Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 2 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 3 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 4 | These are the maximum a negotiator can reasonably expect to get ; for example , the highest price a seller feels he can realistically obtain . |
| 5 | Of particular importance in explaining the disclosure practices of such companies are the industry a company operates in , its size , profitability , extent of overseas operations and the ways in which it raises finance . |
| 6 | I am a soldier a soldier of industry |
| 7 | We know we are part of a great community and so we now stand Lord as we remember those people who have been a part a part of this particular community to give thanks for their life and to give thanks for them . |
| 8 | I should have been a bit a bit clearer about that . |
| 9 | It should have been a race a World champion like John Hill could easily take in his stride . |
| 10 | and may have been a lady a lollipop lady in the Oadby area . |
| 11 | An inglenook , Oh I think it had been a place a sort of built off the fireplace . |
| 12 | The same circumstances that have brought more attention to the miniatures are no doubt a big factor in the development of a grouping as yet not officially recognized , but being listed and offered by more and more growers . |
| 13 | Black will take it swinging it in flicked on by Rozario and the goalkeeper made up for er what might have been an error a moment or two ago by coming bravely in with Pearce right in front of him and Rozario I mean on the flick . |
| 14 | Being human , children do not respond to learning targets imposed arbitrarily by outside agencies ( be the agency a ministry of education , a university professor or a well-meaning politician ) . |
| 15 | Here , have a swig of this m'old beauty , and it only be a shilling a pint . ’ |
| 16 | the honourary member continues er are we being treated to a rerun of the speech made recently because I think it would be more appropriate if the honourable member discussed the orders tonight , otherwise there will be a bit a pruning from the chair . |
| 17 | And so you 'll look for sort of these two combinations to find out whether it 'll be a tangent a cosine or a sine . |
| 18 | The two factors combined to foster the belief that to be a patriot a Cuban had by definition to be anti-United States . |
| 19 | It should , she thought , by law , be an apple a day , a total ban on sweeties . |
| 20 | In order to be an occupier a person had to have sufficient control over the premises . |
| 21 | Hurricane Andrew 's sheer power was demonstrated in many ways , perhaps one of the most graphic being the gash a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood made in the wall of a steel hangar . |
| 22 | Were the chicken a 5-year-old child cramped in a tiny cupboard , our judgement would carry implications of a different order , for the child would be capable of knowing , under normal circumstances , that she was distressed and why . |
| 23 | Green fees were a shilling a day when the club was founded in 1892 . |
| 24 | There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important .. |
| 25 | We have seen already that the small heads of some dinosaurs with elongated torsos were no doubt a built-in safety factor against crippling head injuries , while naturally restricting at the same time the development of intelligence . |
| 26 | So that title to some extent still sticks with it , but it I ca n't hel I 'm old fashioned enough to th to think of it as being a bit a bit false , you know ? |
| 27 | You 're thinking of a fossil as being an ammonite a curly one , yeah . |
| 28 | It was like being an undergraduate a year without having been drunk . |
| 29 | Not only is the operation a concern . |
| 30 | Such is the price a silversmith 's son may have had to pay to achieve respectability in a Victorian village community . |