Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 2 | I was going out and playing five nights a week and I realised I should be a hell of a lot better than I was . |
| 3 | Little Accrington Stanley of the HFS Loans League face Crewe at Blackburn , with manager Phil Staley admitting : ‘ I 'll be a bag of nerves . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll be a bag of nerves ! |
| 5 | I worked my guts out getting my Doctorate , so that I could be a member of Project Eden and be with you . |
| 6 | I am sure de Macon had his hand on his dagger hilt and I realised for all they knew I could be a member of the Luciferi . |
| 7 | " I 'd be a bit of a knobbly mouthful , " I ventured , trying to keep things light , feeling even then that this talk was closing over my head like water and likely to drown me . |
| 8 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 9 | He said I 'd be a sort of ape not to get a sort of scholarship as I sort of could if I sort of used my noggin ! |
| 10 | 6.3 The terms and conditions shown in Schedule I shall be a part of this Agreement |
| 11 | I daresay I shall be a bit of out of touch , of course . |
| 12 | I shall be an angel of peace — a preacher of truth in my own place , if I do but keep His commandments . |
| 13 | I said to myself , ‘ All right , this will be it , now I will be a member of the group . ’ |
| 14 | Any one of them might be a part of this conspiracy . ’ |
| 15 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 16 | Theirs would be a union of questing souls ; they would voyage together into fairy realms . |
| 17 | Then you may be a victim of ‘ Sick Building Syndrome ’ ( SBS ) ( honest ! ) . |
| 18 | He or she may be a member of an organization involved with harmonization — the EC Commission , Unidroit , UNCITRAL , for example — or an academic or other outsider who sends a proposal in to such an organization for consideration . |
| 19 | Thesiger 's response was typical of the man who had endured the searing heat , tongue-swelling thirst and bitter , skin-cracking cold of the desert : ‘ God , you must be a couple of pansies ’ , he said . |
| 20 | ‘ What is more , ’ he continued conversationally , ‘ you must be a member of the Luciferi . |
| 21 | She blinked , then laughed as she said , ‘ You must be a reader of thoughts , sir . |
| 22 | You must be an assessor of the DC to register your decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 23 | No special LIFESPAN privileges are required to use this option but you must be an assessor of the DC to register a decision ( you will have been sent a mail message asking you to assess the DC ) . |
| 24 | Inside the farmhouse , she showed me some of her furniture and when I saw all the cards around the place and she began to talk about how proud she was about the large number of people who wrote to her , it dawned on me that she must be a bit of a celebrity . |
| 25 | I noticed that she looked a bit unhappy so I went across to her , worried that she might be a bit of a madam and would n't like to associate with the likes of me . |
| 26 | The kind of woman I would n't mind having around if I was in trouble though she might be a bit of a trial at other times . |
| 27 | ‘ Another couple of months and you 'll be a lady of leisure again . |
| 28 | She 'll be a sort of one woman ‘ shock force ’ . |
| 29 | And there 's Peggy : she could be an outsider of no consequence . |
| 30 | What looks like a nice smooth field to you could be a field of barley or hay . |