Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | London 's Theatre Museum could rout its critics by putting on its very first , entitled Cinderella And Her Very Ugly Sisters , as well as a Panto Fun Week of workshops where families can find out how Daisy the Cow negotiates the stage or how a handsome actor is turned into an Ugly Sister , or personally seem to be a Dame or a Principal Boy by being photographed with face beaming through a cut-out stylised figure . |
| 2 | you only need to be a nursery nurse |
| 3 | If you do n't understand something you normally tend to be a bit aggressive towards it , do n't you ? … |
| 4 | ‘ CHRIST ! ’ said Lucy hurtling to her feet , stalking the floor like Mildred Pierce , ‘ all your talent and you just want to be a bloody lover ! |
| 5 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 6 | It helps if you play for Swindon Town , or just happen to be a Formula One motor racing champion , but could we persuade Peter to add a Television Presenter to his collection ? |
| 7 | ‘ No — and our relations and friends who have passed over seem to be a particularly dreary bunch . |
| 8 | Vaccines made from blood and gammaglobulin are not know to be a risk . |
| 9 | If this is the case , then , as Rachel Adler has asked , does there not have to be a ‘ recovenanting ’ between Israel and God in order to fully and explicitly include Jewish women ? |
| 10 | You just wan na be a pessimist Brian , you know . |
| 11 | Perhaps you just have to be a little more patient ? |
| 12 | You just have to be a fool . |
| 13 | ‘ I wouldn't. ever want to be a princess , ’ Dot sometimes said , because she wanted so much to be one . |
| 14 | I have always enjoyed going to Highfield Holiday park and to Clacton because I know that when you get there , there always seem to be a lot of people who make the effort to welcome people to the Holiday park and they have always seemed friendly and if anything was wrong i.e. you lose something or somebody accidentally falls and hurts themselves or indeed somebody else the staff are always quick to help and so are a lot of other people who are on holiday there . |
| 15 | If you ever get to be a concert violinist , which I personally doubt , you 'll always wonder if people want you on the platform because of your looks or because you 're any good . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm pessimistic because I believe that if the council is to tackle what I still believe to be a big problem of the local authority then it can not really do so without the support of the largest party on this authority and if we have heard erm an honest assessment of their perception of of the case , I I really I really do despair that this council will will get to the bottom of the problem . |
| 17 | But druggies usually claim to be a liberal bunch , intelligent enough to value breaking the law in moderation . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't partic — ’ and he stumbled over the word , ‘ particular lely want to be a bird … ’ |
| 19 | The keepers also appear to be a knowledgeable and dedicated group of people , for whom I can only express my admiration of their hard work . |
| 20 | It is useless to beetle your brow in what you clearly believe to be a threatening fashion . |
| 21 | The mountains also prove to be a tourist attraction as some of the mountains experience alpine conditions which leads to ski resorts . |
| 22 | You also need to be a good communicator , able to influence people from the boardroom to the shopfloor . |
| 23 | And if you really mean to be a good servant you should have noticed that the Master 's tea is cold , and the pot needs — refreshing , I believe , is the Yankee word . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I really want to be a tennis player . |
| 25 | Lying upon the sand at a distance of 200 yards [ 180 m ] , their bodies often seem to be a uniform dull chrome yellow , but in reality the entire upper surface of the animal from snout to tail is of a uniform olive green , mottled with the former colour . |
| 26 | Namibia predicted that it would have to spend R19,000,000 ( about US$6,850,000 ) on maize imports as the commercial maize harvest , originally forecast to be a record 50,000 tonnes , was now expected to be only 5,000-10,000 tonnes . |
| 27 | In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy . |
| 28 | Well , life has changed since then , and people now have to be a little bit wary when they meet strangers or find themselves in unusual places or situations . |
| 29 | However , case management , although yet another concept ready for misinterpretation , projection , and even linguistic and semantic engineering , is a key component in the delivery of health and social care to priority client groups , and can , on the basis of research evidence in the USA , UK , and Australia , justifiably claim to be a better , more effective way of delivering services to long-term care groups ( including emotionally disturbed children ; see below ) . |
| 30 | We also need to support the less-advantaged young people , those who have not been encouraged , by example or word , to tackle what some ( perhaps many ) increasingly feel to be a very difficult and unrewarding task . |