Example sentences of "to be a [noun] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 2 | It is a feature of modernity that our elder citizens are considered to be a nuisance to be dealt with as quietly and unobtrusively as possible . |
| 3 | So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected . |
| 4 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 5 | There still seems to be a lot to be discovered quantitatively about the physical nature of wave damage or erosion and its precise causes , although Komar ( 1976 ) has pointed to work being done in Japan relating wave height and frequency , together with rock properties , to rates of cliff recession . |
| 6 | Allison , who took over Rovers four games ago after the sacking of Dennis Rofe , has already hauled them off the bottom of the table and claims they are going to be a force to be reckoned with . |
| 7 | Sex on Sweeney 's cannibal isle is said to be a business of being ‘ bored ’ , but the horror of the perception takes it out of mere ‘ boredom ’ , which was killing the Melanesians and , Eliot thought , the modern world . |