Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're a fool in some ways when you 're too smart for your own good . |
| 2 | I am a counter in this game . |
| 3 | He himself had long been a specialist in such relief when he would instantly brighten faces during his favourite tours of prisons , orphanages and nursing homes . |
| 4 | The violence began on June 4 in the city of Osh , which had a majority Uzbek population , sparked off by a dispute over the use of farmland for housing ( the scarcity of housing in Central Asia had become a major political issue in recent years , and had already been a factor in ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Meskhetians in the nearby Fergana valley in June 1989 , and in rioting in Tadjikistan in February 1990 — see pp. 36744-45 ; 37256-57 ) . |
| 5 | From the end of the fifteenth century she had been a factor in European diplomacy . |
| 6 | Simultaneously , it seemed , there had been a change in barometric pressure . |
| 7 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 8 | He told us there had been a revolution in Eastern Europe and that the Soviet Union was finished , but he could n't remember any more details . |
| 9 | In some Western European countries , where industry-wide agreements have been general , there has been a tendency in recent years towards greater decentralisation in the bargaining structure together with an extension in the scope and subject matter of agreements . |
| 10 | There has been a tendency in recent years for the amount of applied research in the earth sciences to increase , although not noticeably at the expense of the fieldwork-based areal studies . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's the way it should be , ’ said Joanna , then added grimly , ‘ but , having been a locum in many practices … ’ |
| 12 | But , we are using actual income to measure expected income , and so a positive value for v t will suggest that there has been a rise in expected income with no accompanying rise in consumption expenditure . |
| 13 | It was after myxomatosis ; there had not been a rabbit in that field or anywhere around for years . |
| 14 | With the uncertainty about oil prices and the expense of both gas and electricity , many people are opting for wood-burning stoves These have long been a favourite in Northern Europe and America , and they can be amazingly efficient in heating most of the house , quite apart from being decorative . |
| 15 | I had long been a believer in voluntary euthanasia , and my mother 's experience strengthened it ; for to me what matters most is not the length of a person 's life but its quality , and that death , when it comes , should have dignity . |
| 16 | Mr Watkins , once a commander of a nuclear submarine , has always been a believer in nuclear power . |
| 17 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
| 18 | There had been a fall in private consumption in 1989 following the imposition of the unpopular consumption tax . |
| 19 | On the current market situation Mr Peel noted that Old Masters continued to be the strongest area , although there had been a reduction in both size of sales and prices realised in some areas . |
| 20 | There has been a trend in recent years for manufacturers to shorten their channels in order to control more effectively the distribution of their products , particularly where expensive advertising has been used to pre-sell the goods to the consumer . |
| 21 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 22 | I 've been a man in total control all my life , and I find myself out of control around you . |
| 23 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 24 | But Mr Plant denied that Timothy Gedge had been a nuisance in any way whatsoever . |
| 25 | Although there may have been a trade in illicit cattle across the border between the Dutch and Kandyan territories in the eighteenth century , the large-scale networks were probably a product of the early and middle nineteenth century , made possible by the increased demand for cattle for transportation and meat . |
| 26 | Following the events of 1986 Guinness has been a leader in best practice in corporate governance . |
| 27 | Had there been a version in each city , one might have fallen into Persian hands while another or others survived to be copied under the Empire . |
| 28 | Since 1979 there has been a reversal in regional policy . |
| 29 | ‘ Madam , I too have been a wanderer in these woods for some time . |
| 30 | He 's been a force in British politics for a third of a century , but for how much longer . |