Example sentences of "be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and in Athens itself boundary stones saying ‘ I am the boundary of the agora ’ demarcate the area not to be entered by the polluted . |
| 32 | ‘ Not yet ’ , was the reply : ‘ At present I am the Member of Parliament for Henley ’ ! ’ |
| 33 | ‘ For li the grace of God I am the Reviver of ADORATION amongst ENGLISH-MEN . ’ |
| 34 | In the final version of the poem Buddha meets St Augustine , while Christ and Buddha merge in the ‘ I ’ of the abandoned ‘ I am the Resurrection and the Life ’ fragment . |
| 35 | Jesus said , I am the resurrection , and I am the life ; he who believes in me , though he die , yet shall he live , and who ever lives and believes in me shall never die . |
| 36 | ‘ I am the resurrection , and the life ’ , John 11 : 25 . |
| 37 | The boys get sweaty , cymbals get thrashed and encore ‘ Headful Of Hope ’ sounds like Lloyd Cole 's ‘ Perfect Skin ’ grafted onto ‘ I Am The Resurrection ’ . |
| 38 | The boys get sweaty , cymbals get thrashed and encore ‘ Headful Of Hope ’ sounds like Lloyd Cole 's ‘ Perfect Skin ’ grafted onto ‘ I Am The Resurrection ’ . |
| 39 | For I am not ashamed to admit that I am The Burpman . |
| 40 | And I am the water |
| 41 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 42 | Radio in the 1940S and television under the Fifth Republic enabled de Gaulle to ‘ commune ’ with the French people : circumstances frequently conspired to dramatize the stark alternatives associated with his name ; in 1940 the rejection of collaboration and defeat ; from 1946 to 1958 , when out of power and largely absent from the radio , he slowly became ‘ le recours ’ , the possible saviour from the ‘ regime des parties ’ , party factions and divisions ; when President ( 1958–69 ) , and master of the airwaves , the recurrent implicit or explicit message was ‘ but for me , France faces chaos ’ — ‘ moi ou le chaos ’ — the twentieth-century equivalent of Louis XIV 's celebrated ‘ l'état c'est moi ’ — ‘ I am the state ’ . |
| 43 | " I am the sentry who is never relieved " , he said at the opening of new rooms at the Military Museum in Madrid on 7 March 1946 , conveniently overlooking the fact that several unavailing attempts had been made to relieve him since 1939 . |
| 44 | He went upstairs to his wife and said : ‘ Treat me with respect ; I am the Chancellor of the Exchequer . ’ |
| 45 | " I am the guard but what can I do on such a train ? |
| 46 | ‘ No jests , you know I am the keeper of the King 's secrets . |
| 47 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , when she 'd caught enough breath to speak , ‘ I am the keeper of the skylight carnival and I can let you see it . |
| 48 | I am the treasurer of an organisation devoted to writing to prisoners under sentence of death in the Caribbean . |
| 49 | Following on from my recent committment to investment , I would like to nominate the Scottish Cycling Council , of which I am the Treasurer , for a donation from Ethical Investors Group , or , better still , sponsorship on a regular basis in return for carefully targeted publicity for EIG . |
| 50 | I would like to ask ETA to support the running of the Scottish Cycling Council , of which I am the Treasurer . |
| 51 | I would like to ask NFC plc to support the running of the Scottish Cycling Council , of which I am the Treasurer . |
| 52 | I am the Chairman , and there is a Vice Chairman [ the Baroness ] . |
| 53 | I am Ken Trench , I am the Chairman of the Group . |
| 54 | I am the officer in charge of all cultural activities in Birnin Gwari local government of Kaduna State in Nigeria . |
| 55 | I am the tip . |
| 56 | He refused it , saying , ‘ I am the servant of the Corporation of London ; they are my masters and are entitled to all my time and service . |
| 57 | Kaptan asked and , in malai , I said , ‘ I am the servant of your father and mother , Kaptan , and your servant , too . ’ |
| 58 | I am the servant of the cause I have at heart , and you and I , and Harry if need be , are coin to be spent for it . ’ |
| 59 | I am the sunlight on ripened grain I am the gentle autumn rain . |
| 60 | ‘ I am the Cancer Man ! , |