Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I was the mature woman , faced with new kids in the workplace . |
| 2 | Perhaps I 'm the wrong one to ask about that . ’ |
| 3 | Well I mean obviously I 'm the obvious alternative is er financial planning |
| 4 | For a start , Christopher 's taller than I am so I was the fluffy one … . |
| 5 | It is knowing that you are capable enough which is the difficult thing . |
| 6 | So which is the odd one out there ? |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe not but I think both you and Len might benefit by talking about what happened that morning ; after all , apparently you were the only one who actually saw him fall . |
| 8 | Perhaps she was the only one who had got away ? |
| 9 | And , as consolation Marje , you really can hang on to the hope that as he was the secret true love of your life , perhaps you were the secret true love of his . |
| 10 | So she 's the official carnival queen . |
| 11 | So you 're the right person to ask the |
| 12 | So you 're the big boss are you ? |
| 13 | ‘ So who are the new owners ? ’ |
| 14 | So who is the real Kevin Kline ? |
| 15 | So who were the nice people ? |
| 16 | Four of them were female , two male : all were varying shades of russet or tawny , but only one was the deep red that he liked . |
| 17 | PERHAPS we are the only definable group , except for the landladies , who look forward to conference at all , conference and elections being the only points in the calendar when our lives become primed with meaning . |
| 18 | So we are the only Committee who are saving the , that 's taking our budget globally as , I think , I think it 's four point eight percent , if you want to be pedantic about it , but we are planning and that 's the only ones , if you take that mode of view , and if we took , if we took training out |
| 19 | To one side of the street — a multi-level space which embraces many different activities — are more open patients ' and visitors ' rooms and opposite there are the cellular service rooms . |
| 20 | Suddenly there was the unmistakable swish of a mortar bomb , then the explosion a few yards away . |
| 21 | True enough there is the odd Porsche but surprisingly few patrons of the supermarkets carry mobile phones of filo-faxes . |
| 22 | Inside there was the familiar waxy , burned smell . |
| 23 | And that 's the valve , we , we , call it valve business basic , it 's done at Dunstable , it 's not the same as the sort of resolving style er gears , even though it has got a gear to produce a and it joins it later on , so there 's the other ball bearings business for the gears , yeah ? |
| 24 | So there 's the real world and there 's maths . |
| 25 | So there is the string-soaked ‘ Something In The Way ’ and the drumless ‘ Polly ’ , which relies almost entirely on Kurt 's full and husky voice . |
| 26 | So there is the psychological explanation . |
| 27 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 28 | Mr. Graham : Perhaps they are the professional advisers who advised the Government to sell the royal ordnance factory in my constituency for a pittance to people who later recouped the price in one sale . |
| 29 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 30 | Together they were the necessary and sufficient conditions for the surge in bank loans to the developing countries in the 1970s , and together they provide much of the explanation for the reverse flow of funds , from South to North , that followed in the 1980s ( see figure 1.3 ) . |