Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never , never would be a believer as was others , of a a cabinet government . |
| 2 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 3 | I wanted to be a winner when I played football and I still do as a manager . ’ |
| 4 | Still sounds like it could be a winner though , so we put Direct Designs and Psygnosis in touch … watch this space for further details , and hang on to your postage stamps ! |
| 5 | Are you gon na be a pilot when you grow up , Annabel ? |
| 6 | When I was very young — about 5 years old — I wanted to be a pilot because I had this girlfriend who was going to be a stewardess . |
| 7 | Lewis wo n't be a champion unless he gets in the ring and beats Riddick . ’ |
| 8 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be a pity if your wife got to know . |
| 10 | It would be a pity if talk of road pricing were to divert attention from commonsense action needed now , or if it were seen as a substitute for a properly funded roads programme . |
| 11 | It would be a pity if our spirituality did not increase in us the ability sometimes to laugh , especially at ourselves ! |
| 12 | It would be a pity if reading replaced talking and writing — that is the fate of the ‘ book-worm ’ , the person who is happier and safer among books than among people . |
| 13 | It would be a pity if children did not read , let us say , Beatrix Potter 's little books , or The wind in the willows , or the Alice books , or Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden or Shirley Hughes ' Dogger . |
| 14 | A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material . |
| 15 | It would be a pity if the site of General Sherman 's March to the Sea becomes equally famous for Gates ' Rout of Unix . |
| 16 | Anglican chant is a distinctive way of singing the Psalms and it would be a pity if it were lost altogether in the parishes . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , I do know , but it 'll be a pity if I have to abandon this present test I 'm working on , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | It would be a pity if this story got about , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 19 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 20 | This would be a pity if the Attorney were bluffing . |
| 21 | It would be a pity if it were to go . |
| 22 | He says that he thinks it would be a pity if Dowty 's fell into the hands of TI |
| 23 | She did say it would be a pity if Darlington were to lose what is clearly a very popular event . |
| 24 | Erm , I think it would be a pity if you did that , because we got all this , you know , equipment and stuff , if you do n't , why do you think it might be ? |
| 25 | It would be a pity because these books have something special to say about the human condition , about being human beings , and about the power of words and images . |
| 26 | We would consequently have to register some losses : we should be deprived of the 490 pages of Kurt von Fritz , The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity ( 1954 ) , which would be a pity because , against all probabilities , there is much incidental wisdom and knowledge in this preposterous attempt to compare the surely non-existent mixed constitution of Rome with the doubtfully existent mixed constitution of the United States . |
| 27 | However , an investment manager ( such as an IMRO member ) who uses a firm as a broker will not be a market counterparty under this head , and will thus be a customer unless he falls in the listed categories test category of market counterparty ; in particular , this means that the best execution rules will apply . |
| 28 | It would be a criticism if I was doing it to impoverish myself ’ . |
| 29 | I had n't expected you to be a bit as you are . " |
| 30 | transition , erm clearly , er it would be a nonsense if we were making people redundant here ing if er either London or Coventry were struggling to cope with their |