Example sentences of "be a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're a bit erm hot ? |
| 2 | They 're a bit er |
| 3 | ‘ Above all , we 're a punters ' band — we want people to come and enjoy themselves — it 's all about having fun , ’ said Slim . |
| 4 | ‘ I gather you 're a farmer 's daughter , ’ he said , which indeed I was . |
| 5 | But you 're a rector 's wife before you 're a mother . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a clergyman 's son , then ? ’ she asked . |
| 7 | We 're a week 's travel away from the jump zone . ’ |
| 8 | You 're a wee sa |
| 9 | at the cost of single glazing and our price is usually by fifty percent cheaper than the bigger national companies because we do n't advertise and we 're a trade com company and I wondered if we could offer you a free quotation , no obligation whatsoever to buy ? |
| 10 | ‘ I think the course is a success partly because I am a farmer 's wife myself , ’ admits Sue . |
| 11 | In its lifetime it has been a grocer 's shop and a bank . |
| 12 | In most of the cases regarding the equivalence of overseas qualifications which have been referred to the Darlington office of the Department of Education and Science , the minimum stated requirements have been a master 's degree , the equivalent of ‘ O ’ level passes in English and Maths , plus a full teaching qualification from a recognised Department of Education . |
| 13 | She ate there often ; and since her grandmother had been a gentleman 's cook , she ate well . |
| 14 | A recently discovered ‘ memoir ’ of an old bedridden resident has , for December 1860 , the following : ‘ In an old house that was next to Mr Wagoner 's shop near the Red Lion there lived a man by the name of C … , who had been a gentleman 's servant , but had lost his character and situation and was very lazy . |
| 15 | The islands had always been a smugglers ' paradise , and had proved a perfect place to stockpile cocaine before running it across the narrow Straits of Florida to the waiting American markets . |
| 16 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |
| 17 | By the sound of it , World War III was breaking out behind her and after the race there had been a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 18 | A slight discoloration of the lining of the breast pocket of the jacket suggested that there might have been a tailor 's label , but if there had been , it had been removed . |
| 19 | The self-destructive streak in Scottish football is a legacy that has been handed down from Hughie Gallacher in the '20s to Mo Johnston in the present day , but it finds its most bloated expression in Slim Jim , a player whose massive reputation was built on his slender athletic frame but whose downfall has been a rake 's progress of late nights , seedy bars and relentless beer bellies . |
| 20 | Well that created er a great feeling of ambiguity in the minds of our members , erm mainly I think due to the fact that some of our colleagues you know , may have been a bit er apprehensive . |
| 21 | Andrew-wa He 's been a bit er green has n't he , I think . |
| 22 | He had been a gamekeeper 's son , and until his father died had lived all his life in the country . |
| 23 | And you can imagine it , if her mother has been a lady 's maid or some such . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ma'am , only that she died before her time and had been a lady 's maid . ’ |
| 25 | Having been a King 's scholar at Westminster , he attended Trinity College , Cambridge , and was entered at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 26 | Had n't there been a man 's voice : ‘ I am deliverance ’ ? |
| 27 | Until recently we used to laugh behind our hands at the unfortunate women of the Soviet Union , who had to drive buses , work cranes and perform other heavy duties that have been a man 's prerogative since the beginning of time , due to an acute shortage of labour . |
| 28 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 29 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 30 | In former times he might have been a nobleman 's factotum , now I dare say he is a film director 's personal assistant , and he leans forward obsequiously to catch his companion 's every word . |