Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] the [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The beadles backed off , bowing and scraping as if the coroner was the Regent himself .
2 Amsterdam certainly has it all with the city 's most enduring attraction being the Amsterdammers themselves who will instantly make you feel at home and help you enjoy this marvellous city to the full .
3 And then he would serve when when when the other was the Mr he trained under , was he one of the two older joiners on the island ?
4 Everyone knew that the only source of political acumen was the Shah himself , But by the end of 1978 , all that had changed .
5 and then you start of cou then you say right erm er let's keep hold of this information so these are retained and there 's also a benefit to the estate agent , and there 's the G A one which of course is er by coincidence is the Aberdeen one but of course we er you know we have them all around the country .
6 One such sub-king was the Beornhaeth who campaigned with Ecgfrith against the Picts in the early 670s ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) ( see below , p. 100 ) , and whose territory may have adjoined the southern Pictish frontier .
7 The God of this mountain is the God who saved only Noah and his family out of the whole world .
8 The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly .
9 By comparison , the highest spending opposition party was the JSP which was reported to have used 2,000 million yen during the course of the campaign .
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