Example sentences of "[noun sg] be the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 2 | He went on to describe how Jean-Claude had starved himself , how much weight he had lost and in what condition were the nerves he wore on his sleeve . |
| 3 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 4 | As far as most women are concerned the only enviable thing about a penis is the ability it confers on the owner to pee out of a coach window as it powers along a motorway when the bladder feels like bursting and the driver refuses to stop . |
| 5 | Lenny 's the man they call the Guvnor . |
| 6 | Looks can deceive , though , because to look at her you would think she was aggressive , or dead political , but she is n't , it 's just that punk is the look she likes , and what she 's aiming for . |
| 7 | Give Sinbad a better break is the answer he 's one of the most endearing soap characters on the box , yet now he 's fast turning into a busybody . |
| 8 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 9 | The role of advertising within the marketing mix is the part it has to play in the marketing strategy . |
| 10 | K. Barrett 's book , Luke the Historian in Recent Study is the weight he gives to the Word as the prime agency through which the Spirit extends the good news of Christ . |
| 11 | In truth , the most impressive thing about this performance car is the way it enhances the performance of its driver . |
| 12 | Essentially , there is no real answer to this question because , in most cases of fraud , the transferor actually believes that the transferee is the person he is pretending to be . |
| 13 | Dreary and dark 's the way we are going . |
| 14 | Seeing as the best thing about Levitation is the way they challenge his previous band 's liabilities , it 's a shame Tel 's still trying to master his own voice , but there 's still time before they release their debut single . |
| 15 | The speed of a pulse of light is the distance it travels between two events , divided by the time interval between the events . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't figure out why foreign investment is the battlefield he decided to pick , ’ one official said on Friday . |
| 17 | What makes fly fishing different from coarse and sea fishing is the way you cast . |
| 18 | But the result was the balance I argued for . |
| 19 | I recall clearly the photograph of the pit-head that appeared in the newspaper next day ; but the impression etched indelibly into my four-year-old mind was the sight I beheld on the Sunday following . |
| 20 | Once the new curriculum was underway , the predominant concern of the department was the time it was taking to cover the syllabus . |
| 21 | Each tree had its fine strip of snow where the sun had not yet reached ; thin lines running vertically , white against the darkness of green-lichened bark ; lightning-conductor-like clues as effective as a compass : north-east was the direction they faced . |
| 22 | The essences marked with an asterisk are the oils I tend to use more often . |
| 23 | Kylie said she got on better with men than women , but put that down to the fact that the three guys in question were the ones she most closely worked with on the series . |
| 24 | They are a gamble and your stake is the interest you would earn on the cash . |
| 25 | The sun is the size it is because it is so hot . |
| 26 | For John Lawer — three-wheeled and proud of it — being treated like a second-class motorist is the price he pays for the car he drives . |
| 27 | For John Lawer — three-wheeled and proud of it — being treated like a second-class motorist is the price he pays for the car he drives . |
| 28 | The sheer relief and sense of escape is the thing I remember most . |
| 29 | ‘ Strong ’ formulations of the principle claim that the universe is the way it is in order for us to be here to observe it . |
| 30 | The new inflationary model was a good attempt to explain why the universe is the way it is . |