Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of this is a matter of syntax ; the intensional relations and the syntactic constructions which realize them are just the ones we have discussed in previous chapters . |
| 2 | The largest of them are also the country 's teaching hospitals , affiliated to the faculties of medicine in the universities . |
| 3 | While the functions of the primary and secondary markets differ it is no accident that the financial institutions participating in them are often the same , because an efficient secondary market , in which existing securities can be bought or sold easily , contributes in several important ways to the strength of the primary market . |
| 4 | In another sense most of them are quite the opposite , namely rejections of modern modes of political organisation , both national and supranational . |
| 5 | Now many people seem to think that technology means machines and equipment , but machines and equipment and the software that run them are only the products of technology . |
| 6 | My Mum and I are now the very best of friends , not really like mother and son . |
| 7 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 8 | I am always and everywhere his place ; if I am the barren land he thinks to water into an oasis I am also the blight on his crops and the locust destroying grain ; I am both the ruined harvest and the shameful blood that sickens cattle . |
| 9 | I am also the boy who you met in the jungle . |
| 10 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 11 | I am also the Great White Spirit that resides in the fifth dimension , everything is connected to my fingertips — by wires . ’ |
| 12 | The monopoly of command — in his house , in his business , in his factory — was crucial to his self-definition , and its formal assertion , whether nominal or real , is an essential element in all industrial disputes of the period : ‘ But I am also the Director of the Mines , that is to say the head [ chef ] of a large population of workers … |
| 13 | I am also the Electrical and Engineering Staff Association union representative for the North . |
| 14 | While I am away the Fathers of the Priory are very kindly looking after things for me , so please refer any crises to them ( telephone : 2149 ) . |
| 15 | I am probably the only person around who is enthusiastic about At Play in the Fields of the Lord . |
| 16 | I am always and everywhere his place ; if I am the barren land he thinks to water into an oasis I am also the blight on his crops and the locust destroying grain ; I am both the ruined harvest and the shameful blood that sickens cattle . |
| 17 | As my knitting acquaintances will tell you , I am neither the shape nor the age for a mini dress ! |
| 18 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 19 | It seems to me that I am exactly the sort of person that you need , that you should cultivate me , prime me , pay me , even . |
| 20 | I am without the sense of purpose that woke me so early . |
| 21 | But here I am without the distracting offspring and driving , or attempting to do so , with care and concentration . |
| 22 | Lo and behold , after further meetings , I am now the proud owner of a ‘ grant ’ . |
| 23 | As you will see , I am now the Professor of Physics here . |
| 24 | So I am now the only one in the entire family without a job in the real sense . |
| 25 | She died in 1952 and I am now the only one of the family left alive . |
| 26 | Chairman I have to but I moved conservative resolution and I am now the debate problem . |
| 27 | I am only the carrier . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course I am only the humble second wife . |
| 29 | After all , ’ he said lazily , ‘ I am only the carpenter . ’ |
| 30 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |