Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One piece of equipment the Dome has n't had to invest in is a blast chiller since most food is taken from the refrigerator , cooked and served immediately . |
| 2 | The track I was parked on was a back way into the village of Broughton Street and , as the crow flew , a quicker way than coming around by Blackberry Hill . |
| 3 | Marrakesh has long been a winter watering hole for the rich , the chic and the famous and the Shah had arrived at the height of the tourist season . |
| 4 | Gregory Butler has long been a field leader in this domain . |
| 5 | This region has long been a spawning ground for Croat hotheads who dream of annexing this area to Croatia . |
| 6 | Bureaucratic power has thus been a reference point for many outside observers of the Soviet Union , in particular , in their attempts to identify the distinctive nature of communist political systems ( Lane 1978 , Ch. 6 ) . |
| 7 | So far though it has not been a problem raising money for the sharp end of mountain rescue — for new ropes or new vehicles and the like . |
| 8 | Although Monica was brought up in London , she has always been a country girl at heart . |
| 9 | ‘ She has always been a Liverpool fan , though , and used to follow them to Wembley . ’ |
| 10 | Adrian Blackman is a worker and a trier , of whom no one could ask more , but there has always been a question mark over his speed and flexibility . |
| 11 | As far as can be ascertained , it has always been a corn mill , mainly grinding corn from local farms for local consumption and in later life , rolled oats for local farmers . |
| 12 | It has always been a corn mill and continued working , somewhat sporadically , up to the middle of the 1950s . |
| 13 | Thirty-five-year-old stockbroker Clive Sinclair-Poulton , bottom right , has always been a Metro owner but readily admits that the new GTi surpasses all its predecessors . |
| 14 | As a result there has always been a clan spirit which has kept the 600,000 first and second generation pied noirs together . |
| 15 | Munich , the metropolis at the heart of Europe , has always been a meeting place for international experts and decision-makers . |
| 16 | From the time of the first Slav settlements in the seventh century until the Second World War Macedonia has always been a meeting place of contrasting cultures and a cockpit of rival political ambitions . |
| 17 | North Shields has always been a fishing centre but the construction of the new fish quay in 1886 and the invention of steam trawling by the tug-boat firm of Purdies led to a big growth in activity in the late nineteenth century and the development of a distant water fleet . |
| 18 | It has always been a fishing village and trawlers from here and from Machico are used for deep-sea and more distant fishing trips such as to the North African coast . |
| 19 | Otis Griffith , 21 , has always been a car fanatic , but when it comes to his own set of wheels , he admits he 's never had much luck . |
| 20 | His career has always been a family affair . |
| 21 | Last year congress carried a motion on racism and fascism expressing its alarm at the rise of fascism and racism in Germany and France this has always been a trade union issue . |
| 22 | At a point on the coast called Sand-le-Mere is a small area of dune which has always been a danger point from incursion from the sea . |
| 23 | Elonex has always been a mail order supplier . |
| 24 | BOYS ' Brigade football has always been a breeding ground for talent and the proof will be on parade at Seaview on Tuesday night . |
| 25 | The churchyard around it has probably been a burial place for 1000 years . |
| 26 | It was n't always so ; in its time , Reading has also been a hippy haven , a pub rock paddock , a new wave Jamboree and the worst heavy metal headbangers ' ball imaginable . |
| 27 | She has now been a ticket collector for more than 15 years and has won a radio and a newspaper award for her personality and popularity with passengers . |
| 28 | ‘ There has n't been a pop band since Duran Duran and Wham ! who wrote their own material and had their own points of view . ’ |
| 29 | And we 're happy we once again say on the phone , Well what I want tomorrow is a deposit cheque , contract , bankers order and if you 've got copy available I 'll take that a juggle it around as you want . |
| 30 | There has even been a hotel station . |