Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 2 | ‘ I think we 're a couple of romantics at heart . ’ |
| 3 | After a long , cold winter they 're a symbol of hope for the new season . ’ |
| 4 | I think they 're a heap of shit to be quite honest ! |
| 5 | So basically if you 're going to se , tell somebody they 're a waste of space , it 's not very constructive , it 's personal , and I would n't say it unless you can tell them why you think they 're a waste of space at least . |
| 6 | I must admit , er there are some good television programmes now , but they 're a lot of rubbish in compared to the |
| 7 | The rip there 're a number of problems with feature analysis and you can read books on them . |
| 8 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
| 9 | The 1980s have been a decade of poverty for the poorly paid , with almost two out of every five full-time workers in Britain — nearly six million in all — now earning wages below the decency threshold set by the Council of Europe , the Low Pay unit says ( writes Larry Elliott ) . |
| 10 | It 's been a weekend of turmoil for Oxford United , still looking for a new manager . |
| 11 | It 's been a weekend of turmoil for Oxford United , still looking for a new manager . |
| 12 | There has recently been a revival of interest in changes in colonic motility in ulcerative colitis . |
| 13 | 9.14 Compensation on vacating Any statutory right of the Tenant to claim compensation from the Landlord on vacating the Premises shall be excluded to the extent that the law allows Basically , the landlord can deny the tenant statutory compensation ( currently the rateable value of the premises ) if there has been a change of ownership during the last five years of the term prior to its expiration and the assignee is not a successor to the business of the assignor . |
| 14 | There has unfortunately in my opinion been a change of attitude about which cases to prosecute |
| 15 | ‘ There has definitely been a change of attitude on the part of the British Government , ’ Salman Rushdie is saying , in his cultured , impeccable tones . |
| 16 | AFTER some 19 years there has been a change of leadership on the North Norfolk Railway . |
| 17 | There has , however , been a change of climate in recent years which has been a result of the pressures for accountability spelt out in Chapter 1 . |
| 18 | For too many involved with the system there had been a sense of grievance with too much focus on the sensational and too little attention on the steady progress of two decades . |
| 19 | There can never have been a field of research in which the likelihood that people would make similar discoveries almost simultaneously has been as great . |
| 20 | In March of 1983 , of the 4155 households visited by the programme monitors , 51.4% scored grade A , 46.4% scored grade B , 2.0% scored grade C and 0.2% scored grade D. The programme monitors also determined usage rates for LGS in the villages by asking the mothers whether or not there had been a case of diarrhoea in the household within the past 15 days , and if so , what treatment ( if any ) had been used . |
| 21 | It really has been a case of survival of the fittest . |
| 22 | THERE HAS BEEN A CASE OF MENINGITIS IN MY COMMUNITY . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's true , ’ agreed Rachel , ‘ and what 's happened has n't exactly been a bundle of fun for you . |
| 24 | Since being a Magpies fan has n't exactly been a bundle of laughs of late , his timing as ever was perfect . |
| 25 | Finally , art and design have increasingly been a part of proposals for courses leading to the award of Bachelor of Education degrees and Diplomas in Higher Education , a development which has posed the CNAA with some problems in guiding and assessing both the content and standard of such courses . |
| 26 | Belgium had been a part of France till just a year before , and many folk in this part of the province resented being made a part of the Netherlands . |
| 27 | There has also been a flurry of activity on ‘ degraded-core ’ phenomena . |
| 28 | Stuart was very happy he 's gon na get a bottle of whisky it could n't of been a bottle of bacardi for me could it ! |
| 29 | Every religion has been a tradition of response to him , however darkly it groped towards him , however anxiously it shied away from him . ’ |
| 30 | This is especially true in the context of Latin America where this kind of duality and fusion has been a feature of culture from the time of the conquest right up until today — both on the popular and the intellectual level . |