Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This manager stuffed money down their throat under the guise of being their friend and adviser . |
| 2 | What I was in search of was my son . |
| 3 | ‘ Hummingbird , will you take this man Buffalo to be your husband for one year , in the name of Earth and the animals ? ’ |
| 4 | You must make another creature like me , a woman monster to be my wife . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But if you make another monster to be my friend , we wo n't hurt anyone . |
| 6 | Devoy hinted that she expected Jackman to be her successor , by adding : ‘ She can have it [ the title ] after me . ’ |
| 7 | It was here that the Prince of Wales formally asked Lady Diana Spencer to be his bride . |
| 8 | Hot Springs boasts of being Clinton 's boyhood home and the village of Hope of being his birthplace . |
| 9 | There is only one requirement of re , to receiving God 's gift of the Holy Spirit and that is the requirement of being his child . |
| 10 | It is almost as though one has to pass a test to be their friend . |
| 11 | A rich but ugly hunchback is able to obtain a beautiful young girl to be his wife and then guards her with consuming jealousy . |
| 12 | Even those hostile found the play 's closeness to music hall to be its strength . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union wanted Cuba to be its ally so gave Cuba many weapons including nuclear missiles . |
| 14 | I have bought Ruth to be my wife . |
| 15 | The other thing that I wish to update the Council on is my deliberations in respect of establishing a section here at . |
| 16 | So we 're looking for two additional representatives on this parish council to be our nominees on the management committee , and the management committee will present us with proposals to buy the ground in due course . |
| 17 | The Frenchman was a lawyer , and Sir Anthony was on the board of the building firm which Gillian 's father mostly owned ; air traffic was increasing , bonanza time , and the company had appointed Anthony to be their emissary on a proposal for a joint venture on a new terminal . |
| 18 | Out of the goodness of her heart , and perhaps because she also was lonely , she had taken Tilly home to be her companion . |
| 19 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 20 | This is a new life of loving adoration for the Father and confidence in being his child . |
| 21 | You do n't get prawn balls in 's my dear |
| 22 | Tell Henry I hope he is good and very attentive to you and it is and will be his place to be your protector ! in my absence . |
| 23 | On Malcolm 's death , and that of his oldest son by Margaret [ q.v. ] , daughter of Edward the Atheling [ q.v. ] , at Alnwick on 13 November 1093 , the Scottish nobility chose Donald to be their king . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Next has plucked up one of Sun 's men , hiring Bob Lawton , an Interactive Systems Corp legacy , away from Solaris-on-Intel product marketing to be its NextStep 80486 program manager , a newly created position . |
| 25 | Whether Gedge likes it or not , many people consider the band to be his creation . |
| 26 | And , Sir , I come to crave of you a boon , that you will give me Rodrigo of Bivar to be my husband , with whom I shall hold myself well married , and greatly honoured ; for certain I am that his possessions will one day be greater than those of any man in your dominions . |
| 27 | It is a right I reserve for all adults and one of the nicest things about being my age is that I can do whatever I like . |
| 28 | Wednesday Matters : The agony of being my father 's son IN THE WINGS |
| 29 | Perhaps Margaret just wants that corpse to be her husband 's , to give her something to grieve over . |
| 30 | By using magic he can order the ghost of any dead person to be his servant for twenty-four hours , and the ghost must obey . ’ |