Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awful lot of reasons why training i is so important to us an and basically it simply all comes back to our statement is n't it , it it 's to be a sort of feeding insurer to give unsurpassed service . |
| 2 | It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people . |
| 3 | I think it 's from being a haulier to being a parcel carrier now , Peter . |
| 4 | It 's like being a house without a roof . ’ |
| 5 | I 've always said it 's like being a race horse , you have to train so hard . |
| 6 | It 's like being a very little fish on the end of a very long line . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's like being a reverse zombie , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm alive , but everybody else is dead . ’ |
| 8 | It 's like being a pioneer ’ |
| 9 | It 's like being a pioneer , ’ she reports , received like ‘ revelations ’ , she writes on her work in the ward . |
| 10 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 11 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 12 | Being ‘ sinful ’ and ‘ just ’ is not the equivalent of having your cake and eating it , but an existential awareness of what it is to be a human being in a sinful and fallen world . |
| 13 | They are concerned with reductionism , and with what it is to be a ‘ self ’ . |
| 14 | But because there is some uncertainty about what it is to be a professional librarian and how to respond professionally to many situations , there can be rather tao many difficult decisions to be made ; and the dilemma is not helped by the weakness of the profession , both inherent and externally perceived , on the issue of censorship . |
| 15 | This is not the basis of the Catholic position which is instead concerned with the nature of what it is to be a priest . |
| 16 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 17 | They delivered their derogatory cards in turn to NatWest , Midlands , Lloyds and Barclays , and then let their feelings known with specially adapted carols such as : ‘ Jingle tills , jingle tills , jingle all the way/Oh what fun it is to be a High Street bank these days , /Pulling money out , putting receivers in/ Winding business up , with an evil grin . ’ |
| 18 | What advantage is it to be a man , over it is to be a boy at school , if we have only ‘ scaped the ferule [ cane ] to come under the fescue [ rod ] of an Imprimatur ? |
| 19 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 20 | ‘ We hope this information pack will show how important it is to be a good owner . ’ |
| 21 | I say nuclear catastrophe rather than nuclear war also because the episode which ends civilisation is as likely to be an accident as it is to be a monstrous design ; the result of human error or foolishness rather than of deliberate choice , an ultimate irony to mock the rational pretensions of the human race . |
| 22 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
| 23 | My argument is that ideology is also a moral system , and that moral values must be directly related to ideas of human nature : what it is to be a person . |
| 24 | Throughout his work he circled endlessly around the question of what it is to be a Christian , to have faith , to encounter God . |
| 25 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
| 26 | Lévi-Strauss ' point here , however , is simply the objection that Sartre defines ‘ man ’ in advance , predetermined by the particular experience of what it is to be a man in twentieth-century post-war French society . |
| 27 | The most striking feature of pupil descriptions of what it is to be a good teacher is the great emphasis placed on interpersonal respect . |
| 28 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 29 | If it is to be a Christology , it must also concern Christ 's person — whereupon all the problems which Christology entails are again present . |
| 30 | But part , I would suggest , is to be found in the conception that teachers have of what it is to be a teacher and that , in turn , depends on what they believe about the way in which children learn . |