Example sentences of "to [be] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know could you pretend to be Christie Brinkley ? |
| 2 | My brew for this breeding attempt was to be tap water , rain water and tap water filtered through peat in equal measures , which gave me readings of 6pH and 2DH |
| 3 | ‘ They wo n't do it — they all want to be air hostesses these days . ’ |
| 4 | It 's not B T , it used to be B T , erm until about 1984 , when we decided that the maintenance that they gave us was n't good enough , and got Plessey in . |
| 5 | Today we learn of nine hundred job losses at what used to be B R E L in the engineering section . |
| 6 | It turned out to be Mrs Taylor . |
| 7 | The book turns out to be Mrs Whitehouse 's newly published volume , Cleaning-up TV . |
| 8 | That left the third , who turned out to be Mrs Totteridge 's Father Topstock . |
| 9 | And one more coming up , let's take it from the bottom of the pile , literally , and it turns out to be Mrs Diane , Street , Market Harborough . |
| 10 | As an example he cites Europe ; his political passion — just as it would appear to be Mrs Thatcher 's bete noir . |
| 11 | It was said to be Mrs Thatcher 's favourite television programme — indeed , she actually took part in a rehearsal . |
| 12 | This attitude was most apparent in a speech given in the Isle of Dogs in 1978 by Sir Geoffrey Howe , later to be Mrs Thatcher 's first Chancellor ( Howe , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | It was supposed to be Mrs Friar 's turn to proffer a tit-bit . |
| 14 | It included such as Wanda Staniszewska , Jackie Gallagher , Buddy Rozynski ( cousin of Louis Dudek ) and Aileen Collins ( later to be Mrs L. Dudek ) , Robert A. Currie , Yaffa Lerner , Anna Azzulo , Betty Sutherland ( later Mrs Sutherland Layton ) , and Dudek himself . |
| 15 | Sir Eric and Lady Paignton were there , a kindly , elderly couple , who lived on the other side of the village , and one or two people from Clyst St George ; and a fat , over-dressed little woman who turned out to be Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 16 | I knew it was unlikely to be Mrs Nassim as she refused to get involved in his business activities even to the point of answering the phone . |
| 17 | She was of mature years , and he rightly guessed her to be Mrs Heatherton . |
| 18 | Later still , the boy is acknowledged to be Mrs Moreen 's " son " , but that he is the prospective pupil " in the story 's title is a fact that James does not bring into the open until the end of the passage . |
| 19 | It would undoubtedly be wiser to establish the young author 's identity and then , if he proved to be Mrs Stych 's son , perhaps have a quiet word with the boy first . |
| 20 | The claim that his fiscal precautions netted the Birt household just £810 in 1990-91 , for example , might be opened to question if the mystery secretary turned out to be Mrs Birt . |
| 21 | She was always going to be Mrs Bissett to Vicky , and Mrs Bissett to Dorothy on the other side . |
| 22 | It turned out to be Terry Wade who had just heard that Trev Proby had been arrested on a number of theft and extortion charges , and had been refused bail . |
| 23 | We 're integrating with respect to T so it 's going to be K it 's not going to be K X it 's K |
| 24 | The really important event , however , was J T ‘ Pussy ’ Richardson 's two goals in South Bank 's 3-0 defeat of Auckland Town — soon to be Bishop Auckland — in the inaugural Northern League fixture . |
| 25 | Late on Wednesday night , a man purporting to be General Noriega spoke on the pro-regime National Radio , urging all Panamanians ‘ to keep up the resistance ’ and appealing for support from the outside world . |
| 26 | ‘ I am afraid it would have to be Captain Owen , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The next lessee , for just one year , was to be Captain Lovelace Gylby , another flamboyant character credited with temporarily losing the island in a card game . |
| 28 | They used to be Captain America , until Mr Marvel got the hump and Mr C&A took exception to their logo , now they 're called EUGENIUS , Kurt Cobain still likes them a lot and they may well be the new Nirvana of Vaselined Fannies . |
| 29 | ‘ As for the new series , it has to be Captain Picard . |
| 30 | She decided it had to be Aunt Tossie . |