Example sentences of "be the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will find that I am the one person you can always trust . |
| 2 | I am the one person you can trust around here . |
| 3 | Must have been the thirties . |
| 4 | Car sales had been the one area of consumer spending undented by the Chancellor 's high interest rates strategy . |
| 5 | He had wanted children for years : not having them had been the one drawback to marrying late . |
| 6 | ‘ Cricket has been the one sport that has brought people together . |
| 7 | For the past seven years , Bates has been the one constant factor in the British Davis Cup team for since his debut against Portugal in 1985 he has never missed a match and has played singles on every occasion . |
| 8 | But it seems sad that so many did not have a more enjoyable sexual introduction , especially when for a few it had been the one and only time . |
| 9 | ‘ Cara , this time I have been the one wrestling with the problem of trust . |
| 10 | You 've been the one person in my life who has really influenced my art . ’ |
| 11 | At the time of Fahreddin Acemi 's becoming Mufti-perhaps in 844/1440–1 on Molla Yegan 's resigning his posts , but in any case not later than 848/1444 the Darulhadis would probably have been the one important medrese in Edirne founded by the reigning sultan , Murad II , since his other complex including a medrese , the Uc Serefeli , though begun in 841/1438 , was not completed until 851/1447 . |
| 12 | er , I must , I always claim the attendance allowance when it has been as executive , as I 've been the one member from Wiltshire attending . |
| 13 | ‘ Naylor 's your cousin — and a bachelor ? ’ questioned Leith , still trying to work out why ‘ Naylor ’ had ‘ naturally ’ been the one Mrs Hepwood had sent for . |
| 14 | You will not dispute , I presume , that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr Lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times . |
| 15 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 16 | Another interesting aspect has been the two bridges which span approximately 24 metres . |
| 17 | The donor could have been ‘ P. ’ or it could have been the two last-mentioned ladies or ‘ P. ’ could be the first-name initial of Madame Vidal . |
| 18 | You see there 'd been the nineteen fourteen eighteen War , then there 'd there was the strike , and er I started to work and I had to go to work . |
| 19 | Erm the simple fact is that the factors that have gone into the model that which we have used , have been the nineteen ninety one based fertility , mortality and infant mortality rates . |
| 20 | And have been the nineteen ninety one based , correc local correction factors . |
| 21 | Could have been the eights . |
| 22 | The train Stratton must have caught — said he 'd caught — must have been the 16.20 from Paddington , arriving at Didcot 17.10 , and Oxford 17.29 . |
| 23 | Since trustbusters broke up America 's Bell system in 1983 , AT&T 's biggest switch-customers have been the seven regional ‘ Baby Bells ’ born of the break-up . |
| 24 | The decisive decade for exploration had been the 1490s : Columbus reached the West Indies ( which at first he took to be a part of Japan ) , Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean , and Pope Alexander VI recognized that Spain 's new interest in expansion would clash with Portugal 's existing claims unless they were defined quickly . |
| 25 | Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark . |
| 26 | St Ebba 's , the maternity hospital , was a good way farther down North River Street from Hilderbridge General , but there had been no room left in St Ebba 's car park and she had used the car park of the rambling , foinstone , turreted building that had once been the Three Towns workhouse . |
| 27 | Mr. Walker:I believe that I am correct in saying that , percentage fall in unemployment , the North-west of England , the west midlands and Wales have been the three best regions of the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | Well so I went and then they came on the Friday night it must have been the twenty twenty fifth of July ninete nineteen thirty . |
| 29 | Also noted will have been the 2–17.33 800 metres run by under-15 Claire Duncan at Derby and the under-17 100 metres hurdling of Jon Haslam ( Liverpool ) which also gained Northern silver . |
| 30 | So far , the most successful renewable energy plants have been the ten hydro electric stations in Scotland providing around 2 per cent of the country 's electricity . |