Example sentences of "be [noun] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of it , SHe had to say , ‘ The cities might be Paradise itself , but for how long ? |
| 2 | As far as I 'm concerned what we 're looking at could be Paradise itself . ’ |
| 3 | Well , if a hostage has to remain behind in enemy hands then it 's clearly better that it should be Summerchild himself . |
| 4 | Sometimes , Henry thought , it would be kindness itself to rise one night between three and four when the suburb slept and drag a sharp stone across the Mitsubishi 's flanks . |
| 5 | This is not a very convincing solution , since most readers do n't feel that this a dramatic monologue , and take the ‘ I ’ of the poem to be Wordsworth himself . |
| 6 | The arbiter of taste in this instance has to be parents themselves , and much can be done to avoid unhappy experiences from the outset by determining preferences and approaches to the care of your child when your childminding arrangement begins . |
| 7 | Although he 's only the second son and will never be king himself , he 's still an important man and very popular , I hear , with many Ruritanians . |
| 8 | ‘ We all know he wants to be King himself . ’ |
| 9 | In other words he wished to be God himself , and not a creature . |
| 10 | Both Kubla and the Abyssinian maid are human creations so in a sense they are God — but Coleridge 's hubris in wanting to be God himself is doomed to failure . |
| 11 | ‘ I think a lot of supporters look for that because they all want to be leaders themselves — they want to be the boss , they do n't want to be the tea-boy . ’ |
| 12 | Feuerbach 's position was more consistent : he was a philosopher who did not believe in God but was on his own admission passionately concerned with religion and theology , whose real object he held to be man himself . |
| 13 | This is particularly important because we are now moving into an era when many of Britain 's first wave of home-owners will be bequeathing homes to relations , many of whom will be home-owners themselves . |
| 14 | To work all year and then watch your entire flock of sheep be killed by a long savage winter , as happened in Malham in 1940 when drifts ten and twenty feet deep covered the moor of Spiggot Hill and Tarn Moss , must be cruelty itself . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll be diplomacy itself . ’ |
| 16 | Rincewind knew himself to be almost certainly the worst wizard on the discworld since he knew but one spell ; yet for all that he was still a wizard , and thus by the inexorable laws of magic this meant that upon his demise it would be Death himself who appeared to claim him ( instead of sending one of his numerous servants , as is usually the case ) . |