Example sentences of "[pron] am [adj] to be a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | If that is ‘ soft ’ then I am proud to be a ‘ softie . ’ |
| 2 | I am proud to be a member of a Government who have increased health spending in real terms since 1979 by nearly 40 per cent. , treated 900,000 more people in Scotland last year than in the year in which we came into office , increased the number of nurses by more than 9,000 and now pay them 41 per cent . |
| 3 | I 'm a Socialist , i but it 's a swear word now , well I am proud to be a Socialist so I will stand up and be counted . |
| 4 | He had written an essay on ‘ Why I Am Proud to Be an American ’ , and he had won third prize . |
| 5 | Am I proud of resorting to stereotypical womanly wiles when I am supposed to be a postmodernist feminist egalitarian ? |
| 6 | ‘ I am supposed to be a Nazi spy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I am supposed to be an expert on the industrial novel . |
| 8 | Perhaps , I thought , sitting on the bed and watching Flora , perhaps I feel like this because I am ashamed to be a woman , a member of that subjugated race whose preoccupations are so trivial and unimportant . |