Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [noun pl] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People say that as you grow older what becomes important to you are the events of your distant past , of your childhood rather than of your middle years . |
| 2 | I trust you were the victors of whatever engagement you became embroiled in ? ’ |
| 3 | Coun Katherine Carr said : ‘ We are the custodians of something so valuable and we forget it at our peril . ’ |
| 4 | Now that all these gladiators are dead , we are the beneficiaries of their markedly different but equally rewarding interpretations of one of the 20th century 's overwhelming masterpieces . |
| 5 | A young Tory activist from Preston said : ‘ We are the victims of our own success . |
| 6 | It challenges us to express our dreams in buildings which will stand the test of time , for they are the gravestones of our generation . |
| 7 | But I would say to each of your listeners I sure you know people who find a tranquility , a centredness , a source of strength and confidence in their religious faith , they are the representatives of what religion can do , not the Ayatollahs , and not the fanatics , and not the people on television , but the people who spend their lives trying to be good and helpful , and one day they 'll look around and realise that happiness has snuck in the back door when they were n't even looking for it . |
| 8 | They are the anxieties of our times , born of the idea that the individual must in one way or another ( any damned way , as a matter of fact , even confessing to having been abused as a child ) express his uniqueness and fulfil his potential . |
| 9 | All of which you will be tired of hearing but it has been brought about by my great fear that my husband will be taken off by the Brownings once more , this time to France and there is nothing we can do to prevent it they being the masters of our fate . |
| 10 | All that remained of him were the words of his confused hopes , swimming on the pages . |
| 11 | Below him was H. J. E. Dudley , Lord Sayle ; above him were the rooms of his closest friend , the Honourable C. V. T. Glendinning . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought they were the ravings of someone who was incredibly self-pitying . ’ |
| 13 | Not having been associated with people with his range of peculiarities , I wondered whether they were the materials of his prejudices . |
| 14 | To some extent perhaps they were the victims of their own official attitude to what was happening — as when the French Ambassador in London told Eden that a French civil and military resistance organization in Vietnam had the general support of the army and the civil population : whether this was the French or the Vietnamese population was apparently not specified — but in their Declaration of 24 March 1945 the Provisional French Government implied that all the peoples of Indochina were fighting for a common cause ; which was that of the entire French community . |
| 15 | As often as not , they were the names of her favourite businessmen of the moment . |
| 16 | They were the harbingers of something terrible . |
| 17 | The vote against him was taken after the Secretary of the Society explained that ‘ we have constituted ourselves as it were the guardians of their [ women 's ] interests and in many cases … the custodians of their honour … |
| 18 | Unless it 's the likes of you , but in the day time |
| 19 | He , He went into hospital and they said erm that it 's the muscles of his heart that were affected they could n't do anything more for him ! |
| 20 | It is the beliefs of which we can be most certain , Newman argues , that play the least significant part in our lives . |
| 21 | Alum Pot is comprehended at a single fearful glance , and it is the intricacies of its cave system that are of most interest to sight-seeing visitors . |
| 22 | It is the specifics of his vision that the pictures of Steven Meisel excel . |
| 23 | How Eric copes with the numbers it can accommodate is a mystery , but it was the mysteries of his talent we were there to learn . |
| 24 | When his head jerked back to look up at Grant again , it was n't his teeth that were gleaming in the dark now , it was the whites of his eyes , wide with fear . |
| 25 | Apart from one major attack on a convoy off Kent in 1706 the French were content to rely on their privateers to menace English shipping and it was the achievements of her army that formed the great glory of Anne 's reign . |
| 26 | I 'm in no doubt at all that it was the stresses of my nightly responsibilities in front of the camera . |
| 27 | It was the implications of his presence as much as the sight of him that heated her skin and caused her heart to thunder as her mind leapt treacherously forward to the night that lay ahead of them . |