Example sentences of "[prep] be another [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She did n't remember that only minutes before he had accused her of being another man 's discarded woman .
2 Now England have got one last chance to cope with that problem in what looks like being another turning pitch .
3 Though its airs of faded grandeur seems to place it in the Anglo-Ireland of Molly Keane — a world of dwindling resources and sinking expectations — it is far from being another monument to the old Ascendancy ( ‘ Protestants on horseback ’ , as Brendan Behan once dubbed them ) .
4 Putting data into a spreadsheet is simplicity itself , but remembering where that data came from is another matter .
5 This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective .
6 What is now worrying us extremely about Local Government in Britain , in any Labour Authority , which is spreading now like a cancer in , that officers are not trusted now to even take the sick list of decisions so there has to be another sub-committee .
7 What is now worrying us extremely about Local Government in Britain , in any Labour Authority , which is spreading now like a cancer in , that officers are not trusted now to even take the sick list of decisions so there has to be another sub-committee .
8 They walked on , and after what they reckoned to be another mile they paused again and looked back at Dynmouth .
9 So there had to be another way .
10 She longed to be elsewhere , to be another person .
11 I could n't help noticing that they spent all their off-duty time racing down to London to what they called ‘ a sitting ’ , which tuned out to be another name for a seance .
12 The group then recalled their own experiences with children who refused to work and how often there seemed to be another child in the family who ‘ can not do anything wrong ’ .
13 A tolerable degree of success resulted from these early attempts at administration on the European continent ; in Ireland , as we know to our cost , it was to be another story .
14 This was followed by the Harpers & Queen Grand Prix which proved to be another success for Markus Tecklenborg this time riding Franklin .
15 A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true .
16 My route was from Red Hall to the Havelock pub using the old railway track , soon to be another noise and fume-filled racetrack , courtesy of Durham brains and Darlington apathy .
17 ‘ Adam Reed will turn out to be another Gregan .
18 What might have seemed a revelation of God 's extraordinary generosity has turned out to be another expression of his terrible anger .
19 ‘ Well , one thing 's for sure , if there 's going to be another saviour it wo n't be a Jew ! ’
20 And when Rosa heard Caterina getting up next door , and coming towards the kitchen , she gave Sabina another hard pinch on the thin part of her arm , just to make sure she knew there was n't to be another word .
21 From this perspective , 1993 looks likely to be another year of substantial audit fee cuts .
22 I pretended to be another friend , and asked for your phone number . "
23 These military and familial idealised images of cooperation and conflict , then , break down in the face of current realities so there has to be another metaphor which can both explain and inform behaviour when conflicts or interests arise between management and work force .
24 And , I , there ought to be another column really within this , for these , for these sort of things , and it certainly should be , be er , included for the er , Standard Spending Assessment , for the erm
25 They conclude that ‘ Catalysis of fusion by magnetic monopoles appears to be another non-solution to the solar neutrino problem ’ .
26 Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones .
27 Coming on the heels of the Ashby Report , which had lacked conviction in Tutorials and had recommended that the reference to them in grant regulations be dropped , the Board 's decision seemed to be another blow to what had traditionally been regarded as the apex of WEA work .
28 By this time the country would be in such a shambles under Kinnock , Smith , Hattersley , Cook and Co that there would have to be another election , which the Tories would once again be able to fight in a properly robust and combative fashion .
29 A somewhat smaller proportion , 43 per cent , would prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be another election for a number of years .
30 We now eagerly await the arrival of 's baby which is due mid-April … the burning question — is it going to be another boy ?
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