Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like asking a Jew to apologize for being a Jew . ’ |
| 2 | I mean between being a Spaniard and a Majorcan … ’ |
| 3 | In Australia his memory is revered for being a left-arm unorthodox spinner who occasionally sent down literally unplayable deliveries . |
| 4 | After entering the introductory corps at Ruffwood Comprehensive School , he joined the regular army at 16 and ‘ lived for being a soldier ’ . |
| 5 | The next thing she asked for was a job to do for the Lord . |
| 6 | ‘ All I asked for was a month 's peace and quiet to get some work done . |
| 7 | ‘ But I do n't think about being a child . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think about being a child , so it 's not a plausible dream . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know about being a sex symbol — I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine in your cornflakes , ’ he laughs . |
| 10 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 11 | What ‘ the state ’ stands for is a number of particular institutions which , together , constitute its reality , and which interact as parts of what may be called the state system . |
| 12 | He 's the one who taught in Ohio me the important things I needed to know about being a man . ’ |
| 13 | So , yes , you should , just for five minutes forget about being a policeman and be a human being . |
| 14 | OK , I apologise for being a clod . |
| 15 | In the 1960s psychiatry was attacked for being a form of social policing which , with the aid of pseudo-scientific categories , mystified socially desirable behaviour as natural , and undesirable behaviour as the result of abnormal psychosexual development ( a deviation from ‘ The Way to Healthy Manhood ’ ) . |
| 16 | The summit looks like being a success . |
| 17 | Analysts say the floatation looks like being a success . |
| 18 | Looks like being a life-work , does n't it ? ’ |
| 19 | the whole business looks like being a swings-and-roundabouts affair ; but the worst should be known by about March unless there are any further hold-ups . |
| 20 | And the club 's new home near Shrivenham looks like being a soaraway success . |
| 21 | Provided you do n't mix friendships with finance — especially on the 4th when the Sun makes a decisive aspect to your ruler Saturn — then this looks like being a month when you are fussed , feted and fawned over . |
| 22 | However , June looks like being a month of domestic bliss with some happy twists of fate in store . |
| 23 | The second puppy open looks like being a contest between Robinson 's Just Right Kyle , which won an open at Nottingham on January 27 and Graham Calvert 's Ruffside Rock , successful in a recent A3 race at Sunderland . |
| 24 | SATURN remains in the area of ambitions and career matters for most of the year , so this looks like being a time when hard work will pay off later rather than sooner . |
| 25 | ‘ In fact this year looks like being a lot better . ’ |
| 26 | The Vung Tau Cargo , snagged in a Vietnamese fisherman 's nets , looks like being a repeat of the astonishing success of the Nanking Cargo — 150,000 pieces of mid-18th-century porcelain plus 126 gold bars — salvaged by an ex-Barnardo 's boy , Michael Hatcher , and auctioned in 1986 . |
| 27 | Unfortunately no-one had been able to see her accommodation beforehand and we found that the hotel she had been booked into was a nightmare — tatty rooms with cigarette burns , door handles which fell off , threadbare carpets . |
| 28 | Sooner or later I want to acquire the full range of British birds of prey , and the next bird I hope to work with is a goshawk . |
| 29 | Simon Patiño , the family 's patriarch , who rose from being a clerk in a mining supplies store to owner of the largest known tin deposit , accrued revenues from the manufacture of nearly every tin can and piece of tin foil and was ultimately appointed a representative of the Bolivian government in Paris . |
| 30 | ‘ Am I exonerated from being a wimp ? ’ |