Example sentences of "[be] a [noun] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lei Leicester 's the place to be if you 're a scientist in it ? , bloody hell |
| 2 | It 's a shock to find you 're a stranger in your family , a cuckoo in the nest . |
| 3 | ‘ Try not to make your dislike quite so obvious , Kate ; it 's bad manners when you 're a guest in my house ! ’ |
| 4 | I am a stranger in my own home . ’ |
| 5 | Whilst learning to take the rough and the smooth of rugby fortunes with a philosophic air , Townsend has already reacted to criticism with refinements to his play that have been a factor in his selection for Australia : ‘ I tend to pay heed more to criticism than to praise . |
| 6 | But there 's been a change in her of late . |
| 7 | Since then , there 's definitely been a change in our relationship , ’ says Davina . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's been a change in our plans , ’ Himmler said . |
| 9 | There has always been a sense in which music is a secret , arcane , almost Cabbalistic , art . |
| 10 | ‘ Nevertheless it has to be recognised that there is an unbroken series of dicta in judgments of appellate courts to the effect that there is a judicial discretion to exclude admissible evidence which has been ‘ obtained ’ unfairly or by trickery or oppressively , although except in Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 , there never has been a case in which those courts have come across conduct so unfair , so tricky or so oppressive as to justify them in holding that the discretion ought to have been exercised in favour of exclusion . |
| 11 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 12 | But does Attalli feel EBRD has been a success in its grander strategy ? |
| 13 | William Charles had no doubt been a success in his own terms , for all that . |
| 14 | This has been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember because during the week , everyone in my family has a main meal in the evening and sandwiches at lunchtime . |
| 15 | He had been a recruit in his class , a bright young lad . |
| 16 | Over the same period there has also been a transformation in its geography . |
| 17 | As for Richard , he had been a thorn in her flesh for too long now . |
| 18 | The man has been a thorn in our side since the day he arrived three weeks ago . |
| 19 | That bitch has been a thorn in our flesh for too long . |
| 20 | The battle to improve the movies had also been a battle in which the showmen had fought to maintain control of what they had invented . |
| 21 | He looks as though he 's been a footballer in his time . |
| 22 | It had been a voice in her mind . |
| 23 | Yeah — i have not mentioned Ronny before — he has not been a regular in our national team — but he did play against Holland in our 0–0 away draw and he was also the man that headed in the 3–0 goal on wednesday in Norway 's humiliation of Poland . |
| 24 | It might have been a weakness in his command of the language , but she did not think so . |
| 25 | Tom … he 's never been a mouser in his life , I do n't imagine . |
| 26 | The stuff circulating in her veins by then must have been a cocktail in which blood was a fairly minor ingredient . |
| 27 | Well , when you say this lot , actually , it , it 's not er , actually a government body , this , in fact er , the Commons ' Heritage Committee , er these are the people who are announcing this price rise , in the proposals yesterday , they 're , they 're actually led by Gerald Kaufman , who 's never been a Conservative in his life . |
| 28 | Aldfrith would then have been a man in his early thirties at his accession in 685 , which seems more credible . |
| 29 | The task ahead has been clearly recognised and 1992–93 has been a year in which we have continued to apply our skills and core technologies across the wider spectrum of human endeavour from healthcare to the care of the environment in which we live . |
| 30 | The men in berets at the house at Hackballs Cross , the possibility he might once have been a gunman in his wild and woolly youth . |