Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not agree with the hon. Gentleman 's choice of best cricketer in the world , because I am a Glamorgan supporter , or with his preference for league rather than union rugby , because I am a Welshman by background . |
| 2 | My knowledge of programming is limited to BBC Basic — I am a phonetician by training , but I learnt the basics of programming on a staff development course and then taught myself , using the Manual and advice from staff in the IT centre . |
| 3 | ‘ I am a fitter by trade so between us we are quite handy . ’ |
| 4 | I am a cynic by nature . |
| 5 | I am a veteran by now . |
| 6 | I 'm a naturalist by profession — ’ |
| 7 | Well I 'm a carer by choice . |
| 8 | ‘ But , Madam , I have a university education , and I 'm a teacher by profession . |
| 9 | I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | I always say ‘ one last thing ’ , but I always add another last thing to a last thing because I 'm an academic by nature and that 's , that 's the curse of the profession . |
| 11 | I 'm an engineer by training , so I could move into something like British Aerospace . |
| 12 | With short intervals , from [ eight or nine ] onwards I was a writer by choice . |
| 13 | The case in favour of its being a mechanism by which real memory is stored in the brain derives primarily , as I have implied , from the known role of the hippocampus in various forms of memory processes , and the fact that forms of associative LTP can be shown to occur . |
| 14 | Challenges on this ground can be made at an earlier stage in the reference by a construction summons , which is a procedure by which a party who disputes the meaning of a document can apply to the court for a ruling . |
| 15 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 16 | Architectural and sculptural fragments , as well as parts of two inscriptions , one of which was a dedication by Legio XX , were also found . |
| 17 | I know that you 're a historian by profession . |
| 18 | I know that you 're an historian by profession . |
| 19 | Trevor Gould , who 's a builder by trade , was part-time manager at Aylesbury for nine succesful seasons . |
| 20 | My club Chairman ( who is a builder by trade ) came round one Saturday morning towards the end of March and built the pond walls and put an extra course of bricks round the header pools to raise their height . |
| 21 | And yet , once his entrepreneurial resource purchase has been made , he is in the position of a producer who is a monopolist by virtue of being a resource owner . |
| 22 | But she was a dressmaker by profession . |
| 23 | But Mrs Tighe claimed that she was able to remember a previous incarnation when she was an Irishwoman by the name of Bridey Murphy . |
| 24 | It was n't an attractive option , especially as she did n't need to glance behind at the carefully packed boot full of vital equipment to know that she had brought no waterproof coat ; she was an optimist by nature and one with no foresight , always a lethal combination . |
| 25 | Granpa — who was a costermonger by trade — worked the pitch on the corner of Whitechapel Road . |
| 26 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 27 | Septimus , who was a philosopher by nature and had been in a French prison before , made the most of his breakfast in a way peculiarly his own . |
| 28 | A squire once angrily said to him : ‘ If I had a son who was an idiot by Jove I 'd make him a parson ’ . |
| 29 | And second one is a book by |
| 30 | One is a shift by the government from an emphasis on the adult active citizen to the young novice citizen . |