Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the only thing Chris Bott had murdered was the English language . |
| 2 | Jennifer remembered Tristram 's face grinning through the wall , and the firm warm clasp of his hand as he reached through to her ; she remembered a night when the moonlight was like mercury on the trees — and she remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy , which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake and which had caused her to go down to the lower scullery to see if Jennifer was safe . |
| 3 | Sometimes it seemed that those who had profited most successfully form the bonanza that he Shah had unleashed were the first to go -with members of the Pahlavi dynasty leading the rush tot he exit . |
| 4 | The last thing Hazel had expected was the immediate support of a member of the Owsla . |
| 5 | Symbolic of the change that the Louis had effected was the increasing use during the twelfth century of the term corona , the crown , to describe the body of royal rights to be kept intact from generation to generation . |
| 6 | At the first appeal the court rejected vital evidence earlier suppressed by Drury of the two witnesses whose description of the driver of the getaway van , whom Mathews had declared was the 26-year-old Murphy , exactly fitted the 53-year-old Mathews . |
| 7 | The eighteenth century is often referred to as the Age of Reason ; most people believed that the world that Newton and Locke had made was the real world . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , all you and the Josephs have to fear are the prejudiced conclusions of Barbara Coleman and the word of a blackmailer . |
| 9 | All that Mr Clarke has confirmed is the Tory confusion over tax policy . ’ |
| 10 | All that Mr Clarke has confirmed is the Tory confusion over tax policy , with the new Chancellor saying that no prudent Chancellor would promise taxes would never go up , and the Prime Minister who promised tax cuts year on year . ’ |
| 11 | What Turkey has to consider is the diplomatic fall-out . ’ |
| 12 | But what Brown had overlooked was the First Rule of the Conventional Car Maker : sell as many of the same cars as you can in order to make the most money for the least expenditure . |
| 13 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |