Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | thank you I think you 're a fellow at the institute of marketing |
| 2 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 3 | Sir , — I am a student at the University of York currently studying Economics with Economic and Social History . |
| 4 | So he had been a gardener at the Château de la Faté . |
| 5 | We learn from a visit Emilia made to Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , astrologer , in 1597 , that she had been a favourite at the court of Elizabeth , had become mistress of Henry Carey , first Baron Hunsdon [ q.v. ] , and had been ‘ maintained in great pomp ’ until 1592 , when , becoming pregnant , she was married to Captain Alphonso Lanier , of the other leading family of court musicians , the Laniers , who came to London from Rouen in 1561 . |
| 6 | She was twenty-two years old and had been a nurse at the Princess Louise Clinic in new Cavendish Street . |
| 7 | Four child patients had died and nine others suffered mysterious heart attacks or respiratory failures during a two-month period in 1991 when Allitt had been a nurse at the hospital . |
| 8 | In response IBM 's David Fitzgerald said that the internal report related to the early seventies when there had been a problem at the mine and that monitoring by both Galway County Council and An Foras Forbartha revealed no cause for concern . |
| 9 | Suffice to say we spent two fruitless days at Glastonbury and left as we came with only two scraps of information : first , Hopkins had been a monk at the abbey , and secondly had discovered his famous riddle there . |
| 10 | You see there would n't have been a kiln at the mill before that I think it every house had their own kiln and they dried their own you ken . |
| 11 | She has been a soloist at the Proms and is currently principal oboe with the London Bach Orchestra and the Orchestra of St John 's , Smith Square , and Professor of Oboe at the Royal Academy and Trinity College . |
| 12 | It was the second time there 'd been a breakout at the court in the space of a week . |
| 13 | For ten years , Milan Kundera has been a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris . |
| 14 | For the last two years , the Jewish Museum has been a tenant at the society 's building , and new visitors were introduced to its collection . |
| 15 | Before these meetings of the mothers , there will have been a party at the home of the groom . |
| 16 | True , she had been a baby at the time of the war , but her family had moved out to the countryside and their locality had never been troubled by bombing or anything else which might have caused her phobia . |
| 17 | The manager of Goddards , ‘ Wiggy ’ Harris , had at one time been a teacher at the local ‘ School of Art ’ where his father Mr. Joseph Harris was Headmaster . |
| 18 | He had previously been a teacher at the Congregational Church in Dukinfield and was an assistant to the Parliamentary Commissioners of Stockport . |
| 19 | You are a student at the centre , Madame ? ’ |
| 20 | Which I hope we may be able to in April because really they are a disgrace at the moment . |
| 21 | ‘ Later we were told there had been an incident at the Hilton and were asked to move all our guests away from the windows . ’ |
| 22 | Now , to this day , I 'm a dunce at the geography of England , I know where the principle towns are , I know you go north to Manchester and south to London and generally get about . |
| 23 | I 'm a guest at the hotel . |
| 24 | The latest speakers to be firmed up for the conference are David Pascall , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , who will speak at the general assembly session on The New Generation — A Strategy for Reading , and Simon Lang of the Henley Centre for Forecasting , who will be a speaker at the general assembly on The Future of the Book . |
| 25 | Bob was invited to be a speaker at the 19th World Industrial Advertising Congress in Geneva , alongside top industrialists including British Aerospace Chairman Sir Graham Day . |
| 26 | A map is essential at this stage — after all , there might be a motorway at the bottom of the garden . |
| 27 | Somewhere , far away , there seemed to be a rapping at the door and someone was calling his name , over and over , louder and louder … |
| 28 | He explained this extraordinary assertion to his family by saying that the aristocratic rule of primogeniture was the same as that by which Jesus Christ had inherited the kingdom of heaven ( at which his daughter , Nancy , remarked , ‘ Oh , I thought you meant it would be a blow at the faith because the Lord 's son would lose the right to choose the clergyman . ’ ) . |
| 29 | Sometimes it would happen that during a lecture — at that time the secret police were very active — there would be a knock at the door and two men would enter . |
| 30 | I 'd sooner leave that to be a surprise at the birth . ’ |