Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're a blight that 's all there is I 've done all the other dishes and everything . |
| 2 | Erm just because I got ten , if you got ten , you passed if you got under ten you 're a drip that 's what said . |
| 3 | But on the way to Chearell arket they 're a pound each ! |
| 4 | They 're they 're a religion that |
| 5 | If you 're a junkie this is what we give you , y'know . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been a copper all my life . |
| 7 | If it proves to have been a mistake this entrepreneur himself will be under market pressure to abandon this line of production . |
| 8 | The actual printing was produced by a retired man who had been a compositor all his life . |
| 9 | Miss Barton was 87 and had been a midwife all her working life . |
| 10 | I hope these problems wo n't discourage your company from continuing to run the service , which I hope has been a success this year . |
| 11 | There may also have been a second such experience immediately prior to the Battle of Milvian Bridge , at which Constantine defeated his rival for the imperial throne . |
| 12 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 13 | But he vowed : ‘ I 'll battle through — I 've been a fighter all my life . ’ |
| 14 | But the Leeds manager is almost certainly on the point of making a move — and the priority is the right-back position that has been a problem all season because of the absence of Mel Sterland . |
| 15 | But the Leeds manager is almost certainly on the point of making a move and the priority is the right-back position that has been a problem all season because of Mel Sterland 's absence . |
| 16 | Self-belief has been a problem this season and has not been helped by narrow defeats against Wasps ( 11–7 ) , Saracens ( 13–12 ) and London Irish ( 12–9 ) and a 9–9 draw with Rugby . |
| 17 | He had always been a bit that way had Rufus , manifestly to be seen to be doing all right for himself , successful , forging ahead , accompanied by the best-looking girl possible . |
| 18 | She was n't sure how she had expected him to react to her announcement — gratitude or admiration might have been a bit much to hope for , she acknowledged wryly , but even a faint hint of relief would have been something . |
| 19 | He says that if there had been a bit less water in the river the wave would have been bigger . |
| 20 | It rained for the first time since we arrived in Sian today ; There has been a drought all winter , and the townsfolk have been out into the countryside to help water the crops . |
| 21 | ‘ I been a bartender all my life . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Miss Byrne , I 've been a widower these last three years , and the rectory where I live is big and lonely . ’ |
| 23 | If there had been a moon that night , the clouds had been keeping it hidden . |
| 24 | Before she married , my father , who had rescued his parentless sister-in-law from a succession of scrapes , once remarked ( not unkindly ) , ‘ She has been a nuisance all her life and always will be . ’ |
| 25 | That Bingham-Jones boy had been a nuisance all day ; he was a spoiled brat ; and what he needed was a good smacking . |
| 26 | It 's always been a slaughterhouse all my life that , all , all my life there 's been one , young girls use them , use some of them food shops round here |
| 27 | This might seem like a horrifying amount to spend in eight months ( and it would have been a lot more were Caterham 's labour rate not a reasonable £20 an hour ) , but you have to remind yourself that five services would last the average Caterham owner until 1996 . |
| 28 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 29 | We could have been a lot more down the road to genuinely modernizing the Labour Party , making it a bit more in tune with our own members and those many thousands who should be members of the Labour Party . |
| 30 | at the speed I was doing it keeps it to that , if I 'd of kept it to fifty it would of been a lot more |