Example sentences of "be a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're a kind of Supremo now , are n't you ? |
| 2 | We 're a nation of shoppers so let's use that shopping habit to achieve something right now . ’ |
| 3 | How we doing , we 're a week in advance though are n't we here ? |
| 4 | ‘ I am a fitter by trade so between us we are quite handy . ’ |
| 5 | Although there may have been a settlement of Illyrian-Greeks there before the second century BC when the Roman occupation of Dalmatia began , there is little evidence of continuous use of the site until the seventh century AD . |
| 6 | The obsession with homogeneous populations and monocultural , monolingual societies has been a feature of life only since capitalist economics forced a uniformity of workforces and markets . |
| 7 | And what we noticed , is , we 've got a spring there but what and there 's been a trail of coal right up our |
| 8 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 9 | The impact of fiscal policy on interest rates and on crowding out private investment has , then , to some extent been a consideration of policy-makers.3 More generally , however , the model and the equations defining the slopes of the functions point to those variables that will be important in explaining the impact of fiscal policy on the level of output . |
| 10 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 11 | As a result of the improved revaluation changes , explained earlier , this option could be considerably more attractive than it would have been a couple of years ago . |
| 12 | We had problems that last year with bits of this assignment until the mailing went out and then , you know , the video cassette , the specimen cassette was available but perhaps if it had been a couple of weeks earlier it would have been better . |
| 13 | Miss Barber said the inquest had been a couple of days before . |
| 14 | Miss Barber said the inquest had been a couple of days before . |
| 15 | Er there seems to have been a rash of resignations recently , it all started with David Gower , then Graham Taylor and last week we heard that Mary Whitehouse is standing down now it 's Joan and thank you Joan for your sterling work as ticket subscription secretary Joan reorganized the system and I 'm sure that whoever takes over from Joan will start with an immaculate set of facts and figures . |
| 16 | But the house in Gamut Street had been a place of miracles once . |
| 17 | ‘ There have been a lot of stories recently which I would have handled differently . ’ |
| 18 | There 's been a lot of publicity recently about parents teaching their own children , rather formal things . |
| 19 | There 's been a lot of publicity recently about parents teaching their own children , rather formal things . |
| 20 | What seemed likely to him was that Adam had allowed some undesirable person or persons access to the place and it was these vagrants or hippies — there had been a lot of hippies still about then — were responsible . |
| 21 | Joanne and Keith Powell of the George , Ash Vale are behind the event and they say that there 's been a lot of interest so far . |
| 22 | There 's been a lot of trouble lately a lot of problems have n't they . |
| 23 | Consequently , there has been a shift in concern away from whether we will survive financially or socially to how much we can reduce financial and other kinds of uncertainty . |
| 24 | If these are not the product of a Piltdown-type hoax , then either there must have been a source of jade somewhere in Europe or else the axes must have been brought an unimaginable distance from the Far East , a journey comparable in its way to that of the monoliths of Stonehenge . |
| 25 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 26 | It is possible that there may have been a recovery of population around 1430 , as the previous decade was relatively free of plague , but from 1433 to 1454 epidemics again increased in frequency ( see Framework ) , some being general throughout the country and others being more localised , particularly in London . |
| 27 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |
| 28 | There has been a delegation of powers downwards to the Réunion and individual museums , and in 1991 the Réunion changed its statute to operate more like a private enterprise . |
| 29 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 30 | There has already been a switch of emphasis away from sheltered housing for the elderly to other groups in special need , and what money has been available has been targetted to those areas which have not been well served in the past ( peripheral housing estates , remote areas and less attractive small towns ) , or to developments offering very special facilities ( eg sheltered housing for the elderly deaf ) . |