Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Stone floor panels dating from 883–612BC , uncovered in the Assyrian royal palaces at Nimrud , Balawat and Nineveh , contain patterns that are generally accepted as carpet designs ; thee are also a number of reliefs and carvings showing men carrying what can only be tapestries or rugs .
2 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 .
3 The largest of them are also the country 's teaching hospitals , affiliated to the faculties of medicine in the universities .
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 I am also a member of Obair , the Campaign for Employment in West Belfast .
7 I wished I 'd come instead with the local Horticultural Society — of which I am also a member — so I decided to wander off .
8 But I am also a nurse and I know how vital the hospital 's research is .
9 I may be a dish , but I am also a don , and not prone to see emergencies where none exist .
10 I am also a musician and music occupies a great deal of my time .
11 As for the supposedly devastating impact of the John Major Diary in Private Eye , of which I am also a co-author , I can only say that , despite the article 's prediction , it did not seem to stand in the way of a gratifying number of people giving him their enthusiastic support on Thursday — including myself .
12 And , before you ask , I am also a beneficiary , after the will is approved in the Court of Probate . ’
13 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 .
14 I am also the boy who you met in the jungle .
15 I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads .
16 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 …
17 I am just a man in love . ’
18 I am just a hireling .
19 They think I am just a burden and they want grandchildren to look after them when they get old .
20 I am just a sailor .
21 I am just a football nut who spends thousands of pounds travelling to watch games . ’
22 ‘ Even though I am just a freelance ? ’
23 ‘ Now you know , Master Corbett , why I am just a messenger .
24 I am just a tourist here on vacation . ’
25 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 ) .
26 I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ .
27 Indeed , I am probably a lover of ‘ Christianity ’ .
28 Now here is another unhappy woman , Dorothea thought , and they all come to me , though goodness knows why , for I am surely no inspiration ?
29 By profession I am both a Christian and an economist .
30 ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity .
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