Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your child may or may not be tested depending on whether he or she is part of a group progressing from one stage to another . |
| 2 | They either function as addressees , marking the important " conversational " or " interpersonal " character of the Odes , or they are figures from the world of gods and heroes . |
| 3 | Either they are doing the work that younger people could and perhaps should be doing ; or they are part of a growing population of retired people whose idleness is creating social and financial difficulties for the rest of the productive population . |
| 4 | Today there is dispute about how far he caused his and his followers deaths , or they were victims of a needless tragedy . |
| 5 | A graduate of Westminster Hotel School , ( where he was winner of the HCIMA 's premier student prize , the Sir Francis Towle Award ) he was among the first intake in Forte 's executive management trainee programme . |
| 6 | Not only do you have to keep an eye out for hidden switches to help you get across treacherous terrain but , hardest of all , you have a time limit to complete the game — exactly 60 minutes — or it 's curtains for the Prince . |
| 7 | But make no mistake , England need to produce a top-drawer performance tomorrow or it 's egg on the face time . |
| 8 | Although neither my hon. Friend nor I were Members of the House when Mr. Thorpe was a Member , we both remember that , as my hon. Friend said , he was a ’ dashing figure ’ in the politics of the 1970s . |
| 9 | ‘ You are sure about this , my lady — that I am daughter to the duke your husband ? ’ |
| 10 | You probably figured out by now that I 'm part of the team that made the game and to prove it is n't bugged I only have to quote some of Ian Osborne 's words : |
| 11 | Take him out to dinner , pour champagne down his throat , and later in the evening mention the little titbit that I 'm friends with the Finnish President . |
| 12 | The story is that I 'm ringleader of the Deptford rioting . |
| 13 | At the office door I found that I was second in the queue , not first . |
| 14 | First I would relax , lie upon a bed , although not the bed in which I normally slept , go through the breathing exercises until I felt that I was part of the bed , weightless and sinking through it . |
| 15 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 16 | Hillary 's critics also say that she is way to the left of her husband politically . |
| 17 | Decibel is an oral character in the sense that she is part of a play , but she has nevertheless been conceived of and written by Perry . |
| 18 | And suggestions that she was part of a virginal vanguard of ‘ bimbettes ’ — too young and unsullied to be fully-fledged bimbos — brought the first flashes of what was to become a formidable temper . |
| 19 | But it would be too risky : even more certainly he felt , bright and keen as he was now , that she was part of a trap best avoided . |
| 20 | There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about . |
| 21 | She sat and held her breath , and felt that she could hear the trees growing around her and that she was part of the same quiet measured progress , in a world devoid of people . |
| 22 | She visited hospitals and schools , even a school for the deaf , where she boasted that she was President of the British Deaf Association . |
| 23 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 24 | My basic feeling is that while it is reasonable to ask that that a council , as a council , as a political grouping , may make the decisions about things , it is an absolute nonsense that many , many councils — some of them are worse than others — will not let their professionals speak out on their you know from using their own expertise , their own knowledge , their own experience , and quite often that that debate , the whole debate is gagged by the fact that you 're employees of the council . |
| 25 | Allow me to remind you that you are head of the family in your father 's absence . |
| 26 | Remember that you are part of a whole and that you are just as important as anyone else — but not more so . |
| 27 | ‘ Even if I had said I was , which I am not , though I admit to certain sympathies , I can see that you are prey to the usual set of misconceptions . |
| 28 | First came belief , then involvement ; after that — once you were part of the family — sides did n't matter . |
| 29 | They were not , Hope observed , as Mrs Crump and Mrs Moore surrounded her with attention , the welled-up tears of spontaneous emotion — not if he was anything of a judge : there was something spare , almost dry , if the word could be excused , about the tears ; he noted their dryness carefully while , in mime show , semaphoring to Colonel Moore and Mr Crump ‘ the female of the species ’ and ‘ over-sensibility ’ and ‘ poor child ’ and ‘ let the ladies resolve it but although we are men of the world we too are not unmoved by the finer shades of feeling , especially for those fallen on life 's remorseless battlefield . ’ |
| 30 | and discover that we 're Sisters Under The Skin . |