Example sentences of "be [adv] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're now a growers ' co-operative , ’ David Gardner explained . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | UI will no longer be just a requirements body or a marketing arm for USL . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm just a police officer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think it 's only a Windows thing . |
| 8 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 9 | ‘ This is basically an idiots guide for making your own beer . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 14 | They patrol the streets quite regularly and there is always a police car there if you want one . |
| 15 | So far , shorting is still a specialists ' game , but a growing one . |
| 16 | doing dialect there 's still a things like the wireless and the weather things like that sometimes give it a personality as a . |
| 17 | There 's probably a knees-up afterwards to which we 're not invited . ’ |
| 18 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
| 19 | Transportation to the slaughterhouse is also a problems for the 600 million meat chickens , called broilers , which are eaten in the UK each year . |
| 20 | There is also a games room with table tennis , pool and video games and normally some sort of activity or entertainment going on . |
| 21 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
| 22 | There is also a Girls ' Choir and a Primary Boys ' Choir . |
| 23 | There is also a children 's play area , and it is just east of Market Bosworth on B.585 . |
| 24 | There is also a children 's pool , shops and a tennis court . |
| 25 | The Scots language is taught in a full first-year course as well as in English Language 1 and 2 , and there is also an honours course devoted entirely to it . |
| 26 | For those who prefer something a little more energetic , there 's also a darts board and a pool table . |
| 27 | Old Tintern Station , just off the A466 is now a visitors centre and museum , with the original station buildings restored and used as an excellent refreshment room , plus a fine display of artifacts from the railway scene . |
| 28 | Where landlords are not resident [ absentee landlords ] there is now a rights divide between tenancies which began before 15 January 1989 and those which began on or after that date . |
| 29 | As many retired Rentokil folk are probably aware there is now a Rentokilonians society based in East Grinstead . |
| 30 | Mozzarella was originally made from buffalos ' milk but it is now a cows ' milk cheese . |