Example sentences of "be an iron [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a spring that was supposed to have healing powers and the remains of what might have been an Iron Age temple . |
| 2 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 3 | Now the British response to the makers of those velvet revolutions will be an iron hand that signals ‘ Keep Out ’ . |
| 4 | What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’ |
| 5 | Below the clock is an iron hook holding a key ring , with a set of iron keys ( for locations 25 , 26 , 79 , 91 ) . |
| 6 | Projecting from the handle is an iron bar , somewhat twisted and corroded , which is curved at the broken end to form part of a semicircle . |
| 7 | There is an iron law of finance : the harder that financial folk campaign for something , the tougher the padlock you should put on your wallet . |
| 8 | The Man Catcher is an iron collar on a long pole . |
| 9 | ‘ Sandra Kettering is an Iron Lady when it comes to issuing commands . ’ |
| 10 | The outside wheel is an iron breastshot unit locally made in Tewkesbury over a century ago , and replaced an older wooden one . |
| 11 | Moreover there is an iron fist in the velvet glove and Tanith Lee packs a hard punch ; for just below the surface of heraldic hyperbole and magical metaphor lurks the image of the monstrous woman . |
| 12 | At Trecynon , a suburb on the north-west side of the town , there is an iron bridge built in 1811 to carry products of the Abernant Ironworks on a tramway from the works to the Glamorgan Canal , and thence to the port at Cardiff . |
| 13 | In the view of the Director of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , there is an iron curtain separating public sector higher education in Wales from the University of Wales whose existence must be to the detriment of the young people of Wales . |
| 14 | At the Black Swan we come to Townsend and Hopabout Lane ( now Queen 's Road ) where there is an iron bollard bearing the words ‘ City of London ’ , one of the many brought as ballast from the Metropolis by the contractors Mowlem and Burt . |
| 15 | It was an iron bed with two folded blankets on it and a thin straw mattress . |
| 16 | And then there was an iron bar going from this plank , through the wall , and you could Er then this sort of a a pronged thing that was over the strap , you you could s push it over with that pu pulling the the plank up here . |
| 17 | There was an iron gate which looked rusted and stuck but which opened to a touch , a flight of stone steps to the water level , and then she let herself be led along a narrow shelf which from the look of it was usually under water . |
| 18 | One of my finds was an iron key in very good condition . |
| 19 | At the end , beneath a couple of mature coxes , was an iron table and stout wooden chairs . |
| 20 | In our station , the only facility was an iron cauldron of boiling water . |