Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest of them are also the country 's teaching hospitals , affiliated to the faculties of medicine in the universities . |
| 2 | In another sense most of them are quite the opposite , namely rejections of modern modes of political organisation , both national and supranational . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I am also the boy who you met in the jungle . |
| 5 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | As my knitting acquaintances will tell you , I am neither the shape nor the age for a mini dress ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I am without the sense of purpose that woke me so early . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not the Prince of Wales 's cook , ’ said Auguste tiredly . |
| 11 | But I am not the automaton you appear to believe . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I am not the type of manager to go in and say right , I 'll take this and create it into something else . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not the King . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ No , I am not the King . |
| 15 | I am not the kind of person to be treated seriously , in Bob 's jargon . |
| 16 | I am not the master of tack and I always say what I think . |
| 17 | I am not the person you think I am . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps I am not the person you remember . ’ |
| 19 | I would remind you that contrary to the comments made in your letter , I am not the chairman of the judges , simply the chairman of the committee that has the responsibility of organising the event that surrounds the judging and MC ( unpaid ) for the awards dinner . |
| 20 | Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public . |
| 21 | Graham said : ‘ I am not the sort of person who can just sit around reading . |
| 22 | ‘ Paul , I do n't know if you have realised this yet , but I am not the understudy to the part of the father . |
| 23 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 24 | Chairman I have to but I moved conservative resolution and I am now the debate problem . |
| 25 | As you will see , I am now the Professor of Physics here . |
| 26 | I am only the Prince of Cordia . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I am only the carrier . |
| 29 | After all , ’ he said lazily , ‘ I am only the carpenter . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I am merely the messenger . |