Example sentences of "be a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think you 're a dick lover anyway !
2 We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance .
3 I thought when I was looking at her talking and I thought , you 're a school mistress .
4 If you 're a school governor or a member of a P T A or just a parent , you must demand that the real facts of life and death are part of sex and hygiene education .
5 Thank you , Ellie , you 're a kind girl . ’
6 ‘ Aye , you 're a kind lass .
7 We 're a bio-technology company and in a sense we 're going to the Mecca of bio-technology .
8 ‘ You did n't miss much , unless you 're a sex maniac . ’
9 ‘ You 're a sex object to me at this moment , ’ said Surkov .
10 ‘ On the other hand , if you 're a character actress you 're allowed much more freedom to question the role you 've been given , and to go more deeply into it to find a means of playing the part .
11 Even the interview system is not an ideal one — once again you 're having to sell yourself — and if you 're a character actor like I am I can not show myself without being somebody else .
12 And we do offer them a service , but they 're a specialist college , everybody
13 They can beef up your status if you 're a society hostess .
14 Erm another thing is , going back to the point about erm er when you 're a child grown-ups often do rather unpleasant things to you and expect you to comply .
15 ‘ You 're a bit earl Randy You puttin' the clock forward ? ,
16 We 're a little bit topsy and turvy cos er our programme researcher Sophie er is er is not with us today and as a result we 're a bit topsy and turvy and I have n't got all the papers associated with Foster and Allen but we 'll get all the details from F two lads when they come in .
17 Well real ones they 're a bit sort of do n't really go .
18 according to this , these excerpts from Judith Oakley 's book , they 're a bit sort of flexible in the definition of these
19 Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’
20 Will it be Millwall , or will it be Spurs ? ’ and here 's what she said to me : ‘ Son , you 're a West Ham fan and that 's the way you 'll stay .
21 ‘ Besides , if you 're a drugs syndicate and want to murder someone who knows a bit too much , you do n't do it in the victim 's office , do you ?
22 They either automatically assume we 're just backing singers or we 're a folk outfit just because we use harmonies and acoustic guitars . ’
23 The furthest section of the aquarium is a mass of caves and rockwork and there 's so much activity that you could n't fail to be entranced , whether you 're a cichlid fan or not .
24 Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ?
25 Now you 're a G P ?
26 In that Mel and Kim song we wrote ’ We 're a dancing nation ’ , and that 's what the British are .
27 If you 're a financial institution that might be or data , and if you 're a manufacturing plant it might be process control information on P L Cs on the shop floor .
28 Now if you 're a majority party you can instruct officers to come up with a specially paid reduction pol you pay for the policy , so you can then structure the system or look at the service and come up with a reduction , come up with an expansion
29 You 're a night person , like me .
30 So got a special pass because you 're a firearms officer which is essentially deals with your authorisation to have a gun and reminds you of the law .
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