Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am clerk to the King 's Bench of the royal court of England . |
| 2 | I am clerk to Nether Wyresdale Parish Council in Scorton and , while I can not speak on behalf of either the Parish Council or the residents of the parish , I think it would be appropriate to discuss the possibility of Nether Wyresdale becoming part of Lancaster District . |
| 3 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
| 4 | ‘ I am daughter to Maclean of Treshnish . |
| 5 | ‘ You are sure about this , my lady — that I am daughter to the duke your husband ? ’ |
| 6 | I am dust to you , Joe , no more than mouldering bones … ’ |
| 7 | I am witness to the very hard graft of both my parents , namely fish and chips and confectionery , over many years . |
| 8 | ‘ What yer do is yer own business , but one sign that things ai n't right and I 'm orf to Monsieur Didier — and the perlice . |
| 9 | I 'm fe , I 'm seat to the bloody right ! |
| 10 | I 'm coachman to Mr Barnet . |
| 11 | ‘ That you ca n't , because I 'm mother to neither of you . |
| 12 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
| 13 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 14 | Their chaos and squalor did not compare well with the pristine beauty of Jerba and , as a lone male out of season , I was prey to a horde of street hustlers . |
| 15 | Malc was still struggling to revive our ailing business , leaving me to travel alone and , despite my well-earned local reputation for purity — ‘ The only place Marti Caine performs is on stage ’ — I was prey to the occasional foreign wolf . |
| 16 | Four years later , as I mentioned above , I was party to the same fear at Bramshill , in relation to the use of the Nato sweater . |
| 17 | I admit I was party to their tricks for a while but in Brittany the Luciferi began to remove , through assassination or spurious trials , any who opposed the French crown . |
| 18 | ‘ I was party to a murder . |
| 19 | However , on three occasions I was witness to CAMRA members complaining loudly that they should not have to queue as long as non-members to get in , or that only CAMRA members should be allowed to attend . |
| 20 | I was dumbstruck to be honest . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I was dumbstruck to be asked this by the teller . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 23 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 24 | And then I was face to face with the biggest , and ugliest lad ever . |
| 25 | It was the largest I had ever seen , split up into walled units , ten of them Ward had said , and when I reached the western limit of it I was face to face with the heaving bulk of the ocean . |
| 26 | I was face to face with … |
| 27 | There are several small ponds in Salcey which are home to a variety of animals including dragonflies and the rare great crested newt . |
| 28 | Such a project is under way in Gabon , the tropical forests of which are home to an estimated 70,000 elephants — believed to be Africa 's largest undisturbed population . |
| 29 | The thrust plane is on strike with the outcropping Mendip folds which are overthrust to the north . |
| 30 | As Cross ( 1988 ) reports , there are thirty-six countries producing tropical timber and thirty-three market countries which are party to this agreement that not only aims to regulate the tropical timber trade but to promote sustainable use and conservation of tropical forests . |