Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One young soldier I trained with was Tony Rees , from Whitchurch , Bristol . |
| 2 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 3 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 4 | Quasars are starlike objects that must be many times brighter than entire galaxies if they are as distant as the reddening of their spectra indicates ; pulsars are the rapidly blinking remnants of supernova explosions , believed to be ultradense neutron stars ; compact X-ray sources , revealed by instruments aboard space vehicles , may also be neutron stars or may be hypothetical objects of still higher density , namely black holes . |
| 5 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |
| 6 | A necessary precaution — she heard a voice she imagined to be John-William Dallam 's say the words-to discourage others of her kind from following her criminal example . |
| 7 | It seemed to be RAF policy to shift people around from time to time , usually just as they were beginning to take root somewhere . |
| 8 | Bald , and with an attenuated El Greco face , he looked like a victim of chemotherapy — but also of a Transylvanian vampire , for his chin and neck were covered with what seemed to be bite marks . |
| 9 | The reason why absenteeism was non-existent on Thursdays was not just because it happened to be pay day . |
| 10 | He had an endearing habit at 10 o'clock of calling on each facet of his customers , starting with the lowest rank of airman , to " piss off " ; and worked through the ranks until he got to Kings ( and on this occasion it happened to be King Peter of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 11 | We all had a good laugh about it , but it was not so funny if you happened to be Keith Fletcher . |
| 12 | The local MP happened to be Michael Heseltine , who knows a thing or two about campaigning . |
| 13 | She broke into films in 1933 , when MGM advertised for ‘ tall girls in bathing suits ’ , and made her movie debut in the chorus in Dancing Lady , which also happened to be Fred Astaire 's first film . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , their most fanatical fan happened to be Steven Morrissey . |
| 15 | The boaters happened to be Russell Train , who ran the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in Washington , just 50 km to the west , and Senator Charles Mac Mathias of the state of Maryland , which shares with Virginia the bay 's 13 000 km of shoreline . |
| 16 | She had no idea what to do , less than if her sister had become violent and raved and attacked her , or claimed to be Lady Hamilton . |
| 17 | They claimed to be grass cutters working at the nearby golf course . |
| 18 | ‘ We can confirm that Det Chief Insp Keith Free of Heathrow CID did visit the offices of the Sunday Mirror , interviewed journalists and watched a video tape showing a man who claimed to be Phil Wells , ’ said a the spokesman . |
| 19 | Some claimed to be Don Antonio Beatillo himself , reincarnate ; others , more crafty , urged the claims of babies discovered , they said , in the local limestone caves , foundlings dropped from the sky , with tokens proving their selfsame identity with the magnate , recently deceased , much lamented ( RIP ) who owned all that land down in the valley of the Dragon Torrent . |
| 20 | Beautifully displayed on it were two twists of marinated salmon , sprigs of red and green lettuce and watercress , slices of passion fruit , two slices of filet of hare , a sprig of broccoli , two crumbed and fried mushrooms in a pale-gold sauce which I guessed to be pan juices , reduced and bodied out with cream . |
| 21 | However , the women declined to be TPLF fighters . |
| 22 | I thought I was an actress and decided to be Mata Hari for my journey . ’ |
| 23 | The families are the Series 2700 , Series 6700 and Series 6800 workstations and servers , and , as reported , they will support Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT as well as Unix — presumed to be Unix System V.3.2 — the company has still not made good on its promise to offer OSF/1 . |
| 24 | 1981–1982 KAY EVANS , MBE — Our very good friend agreed to be Caretaker President for one year on Molly 's death . |
| 25 | ‘ WHO ARE you looking for ? ’ enquired a soul boy behind a typewriter ( who I later surmised to be Paolo Hewitt , author of Beat Concerto ) . |
| 26 | The one tourist trap we fell into was St Tropez . |
| 27 | Was Major meant to be Val Doonican or Dave Allen ? ) |
| 28 | But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ . |
| 29 | The beebop era was just fading , Presley had not quite arrived and the advance guard of popular Fifties music that the kids in Neptune listened to were Johnnie Ray , Ray Charles and Chuck Berry . |
| 30 | A man , understood to be Keith Pringle , remained in the house with Mrs Reece 's 21-year-old daughter Leanne . |