Example sentences of "be a [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , that night everyone went to sleep because if there was going to be a wedding everybody in the village would surely have to go . |
| 2 | Not being an expert herself in the art of model construction , the kids went too — and we 'll get their verdict on the home of Lego tomorrow . |
| 3 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 4 | Gender , as an aspect of the experience of old age , is a matter which in the UK has recently focused on informal care for the production of substantial data and new theoretical formulations . |
| 5 | Dr is a cardiologist who in the course of his work encountered cases of mercury poisoning . |
| 6 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 7 | Here was a lady who at the age of 50 had certainly decided to quit while she was ahead , and her moving and musically thoughtful recital confirmed it . |
| 8 | The old woman took a lace handkerchief out of the tapestry reticule hanging from her left wrist and rolled the handkerchief into a ball between her hands , which was a gesture everyone in the room knew from her concerts . |
| 9 | There was a silence none of the three brothers seemed inclined to fill . |
| 10 | It was an accident everyone at the marine conservation society had been dreading . |