Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Print workers too were said to have improved in character : " a printing office was like a public house on a Monday when I was an apprentice , and now we have no drinking at all " .
2 Under the plan there were to be changes in public finance policy ; budget deficits were to be limited to 10 per cent of total revenue ; government bonds were to be issued on the Muscat securities market to replace dependence on foreign borrowing ; the state general reserve fund was to be strengthened by a transfer of oil revenues ; a contingency fund was to be created to " cope with any international or domestic variables " ; and privatization of selected assets was to go ahead .
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4 She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed .
5 The stereo-typical image of a building worker is of a hard macho man who does n't care about other people 's feelings .
6 The fact that the dead wood has been shaped for use as a building material is of no consequence to a fungus or a beetle .
7 AN ELECTRICAL retailer , a garden centre and a milk processor were among the winners of this year 's Scottish Marketing Awards .
8 Diplomacy in a CAD manager is to be treasured .
9 To find out that she was a drug user was like finding out your twin was a murderer .
10 A COMPUTER hacker is to be charged with spying after allegedly testing American Defence Department security .
11 Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World .
12 No admission is charged at present , instead a donation box is in place .
13 There 's so much to see in the Black Forest and a fly-drive holiday is by far the best way to visit .
14 A cinema organ is like a big jelly mould , illuminated from within , a most spectacular thing that changed colour according to whether a major key or a minor key was being played .
15 The shape of the legs was formed to make sure that each face that had a rail joint was at right angles to the rail which reduces the time and effort needed for angled joints .
16 ‘ You wanted to know what a truck ride was like .
17 IT 'S a woof life being on the old dog and bone all day …
18 One of the popular reasons for buying a knitting machine is to be able to knit very quickly .
19 One question on a calculator test was about patterns formed by multiplying numbers together .
20 The bird 's flapping became as frantic as a wind-up toy 's for a few seconds , but this quickly petered out and its body became limp .
21 An impulse passing along a nerve fibre is in some respects similar to an electric pulse passing along a wire .
22 Well the wattage of a fan heater is about what ?
23 Under section 14(2) , a fishing vessel is to be regarded as being British-owned if the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies and the vessel is beneficially owned wholly by a qualified company or companies or , as to at least 75 per cent. , by one or more qualified persons .
24 REPORTS that foreign ships fired live shells near a fishing port are to be investigated by the MoD .
25 The remains of a sandwich lunch were on the side table .
26 CHELSEA 'S battle with their landlords escalated last night when Cabra Estates gave notice that a winding-up order is to be issued against the club .
27 Cabra has today advised Chelsea that a winding-up petition is to be issued . ’
28 If a lavatory seat is to be responsible then it is more likely to be the male who suffers .
29 A NORTH-EAST soldier is among three who died in an accident in Norway .
30 The agreed plan for a postgraduate institute was on the basis that it would be partly financed by National Health Service funds — a commitment made in writing at the time by the then Scottish health minister , Michael Forsyth .
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