Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] be [art] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 2 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 3 | His letter was hearty , breezy , man-to-man : let it never be thought , it seemed to say , that I am the man who can put your academic career on the chopping block by a couple of words in the right places . |
| 4 | He thinks that I am the man who killed the others on the wasteland , yet he keeps coming . |
| 5 | Now that I 'm a teetotaller it 's become even harder . |
| 6 | Once having framed the thought in my mind that I was a lesbian I found myself unable to keep silent about it . |
| 7 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 8 | I 'm pretty sure that I was the reason she left the big house , though I had n't actually been born then . ’ |
| 9 | Nothing was too much to ask if it prolonged her stay , she thought wistfully , so she smiled as she said , ‘ Considering that I was the culprit who booked them in on Ling 's day off , it 's the least I can do . ’ |
| 10 | Prosecutor : Do you appreciate that she is a person who has the right to refuse ? |
| 11 | At 18 she went to East Anglia University in Norwich to study English and American Studies but there was little sign then that she was a girl who would go far . |
| 12 | The Lodge also said that her reasoning was ‘ inaccurate and biased ’ , and went on to imply that she was a Fascist who could not be trusted . |
| 13 | For , once he knew the truth , he could no longer believe that she was the monster he had branded her , and that might lead him to abandon his marriage , whose only purpose , she was certain now , was to thwart her . |
| 14 | You just have to pretend that you 're the ghost who might meet you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You befriend the person and therefore do whatever a caring relative would do for them , care for their needs , so that they know that you 're the person they can turn to . |
| 16 | If I remind you that you are a person who is aware , receptive to new ideas and willing to give them a try , then my suggestion that you buy Ecover is likely to be well received . |
| 17 | Exercise 2 : Pretend that you are a witness who is going to have to give a description to the police . |
| 18 | ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey . |
| 19 | ‘ Because if you do , ’ said Owen , ‘ I will tell everyone that you are the man who receives money from Copts . ’ |
| 20 | Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are . |
| 21 | Imagine that you are the professional who sees this family regularly . |
| 22 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 23 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 24 | I I p I 'm inclined to suggest that it 's a pity we have n't got that in , somewhere at the beginning or the end to sort of give a bit of beef to it . |
| 25 | But besides that there 's a lot of other influences that come into it , and you must n't ever forget that it 's a song you 're playing — to me , that has absolutely everything to do with what notes you 're playing . |
| 26 | He says that it 's a situation they find unacceptable . |
| 27 | of thing so I would have thought that it 's the sort they 're looking for . |
| 28 | So what 's happened to the idea that it 's the polluter who should pay for the clean-up , farmers and nitrate manufacturers . |
| 29 | ‘ And when will you get it into your head that it 's the project I 'm trying to keep in mind ? |
| 30 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |