Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whatever I try to tell them , they seem convinced I am a part of it . |
| 2 | In you ; I am a part of you . |
| 3 | ‘ I am a man of my word . |
| 4 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 5 | There are no perimeters in that world that I can feel ; I am a trick of their fate , peripheral , unclassy , bored . |
| 6 | I am a creature of my Pen , Mr Ash , my Pen is the best of me , and I enclose a Poem , in earnest of my great goodwill towards you . |
| 7 | We will in fact be er I mean I advertise in the er I am a client of his and we will we will be looking at the same he will be a competitor of ours in some fields . |
| 8 | Well , I 'm , I 'm a supporter of it , which you know erm it , it strikes me being far more effective than other forms er of er explanation . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm a friend of hers . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm a friend of hers . |
| 11 | I 'm a friend of his . |
| 12 | Miriam : It is deep , I 'm a victim of it myself . |
| 13 | Following these up , I went into a chemist 's shop , introduced myself to the tall lady assistant and said that I was a friend of her future husband 's brother . |
| 14 | I told the man that I was a friend of hers before she married Nigel Hughes . |
| 15 | In 1958 then , I was a member of what we knew was the premier force in the area with the external boundaries of the adjacent forces as our immediate threshold to what Douglas ( 1966 : 137 ) had called ‘ new status ’ . |
| 16 | I was a member of his party , one of his retinue , and when the great Henry lashed out it was dangerous even to be in the same room as the king 's enemy . |
| 17 | The lord abbot here has been good enough to admit me to his confidence so far as is appropriate , since I was a witness of what happened this morning , but now you have cause to enquire further , as I understand . |
| 18 | Through such aggregation , logical documents can be defined which are a synthesis of what may be many diverse physical documents . |
| 19 | Yes , I 'm wearing subfusc which is the sort of uniform students of the university always wear when they 're taking exams , so it 's a familiar sight on the street of Oxford , but I 'm also wearing clerical bands , which are a sign of my office . |
| 20 | I still have some letters which Mother and Father wrote to each other — beautiful letters , which are a revelation of their lives , both when they were courting and after they were married . |
| 21 | At all times , you may only allocate privileges which are a subset of your own . |
| 22 | All her writings are characterized by an outstanding clarity and vigour of presentation , qualities which were a reflection of her keen interest in English literature . |
| 23 | Candidates who began under the traditional system will complete their course under that system and so it will be 1995 before the old system — and the examinations which were a part of it — finally disappear . |
| 24 | His life-story relates his experiments with Truth , or his attempt to live in accordance with certain religious beliefs which were a part of his Hindu heritage . |
| 25 | And Monsieur O'Hara , 'e is a man of his word . |
| 26 | ‘ At common law one 's duty to one 's neighbour who is the owner … of any goods is to refrain from doing any voluntary act in relation to his goods which is a usurpation of his proprietary or possessory rights in them . |
| 27 | This two-day sale of Impressionist and modern paintings , drawings and sculpture will put on offer a group of works on paper by Egon Schiele , one of which is a watercolour of his wife Edith signed and dated 1915 ( est. £300–400,000 ; $530–700,000 ) . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that some dogs are naturally more aggressive than others , which is a reflection of their breeding . |
| 29 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 30 | The two most powerful prose meditations attributed to Rolle , on the other hand , enact a painful penitential sense of the gap between the sour sterility which is a concomitant of what St Paul calls " the body of this death " ( Romans 7:24 ) and the joy and creativity of God , though comparison between them reveals different levels of engagement with the same theme . |