Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 2 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 3 | His letter was hearty , breezy , man-to-man : let it never be thought , it seemed to say , that I am the man who can put your academic career on the chopping block by a couple of words in the right places . |
| 4 | He thinks that I am the man who killed the others on the wasteland , yet he keeps coming . |
| 5 | Now that I 'm a teetotaller it 's become even harder . |
| 6 | Once having framed the thought in my mind that I was a lesbian I found myself unable to keep silent about it . |
| 7 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 8 | I 'm pretty sure that I was the reason she left the big house , though I had n't actually been born then . ’ |
| 9 | Nothing was too much to ask if it prolonged her stay , she thought wistfully , so she smiled as she said , ‘ Considering that I was the culprit who booked them in on Ling 's day off , it 's the least I can do . ’ |
| 10 | Prosecutor : Do you appreciate that she is a person who has the right to refuse ? |
| 11 | At 18 she went to East Anglia University in Norwich to study English and American Studies but there was little sign then that she was a girl who would go far . |
| 12 | The Lodge also said that her reasoning was ‘ inaccurate and biased ’ , and went on to imply that she was a Fascist who could not be trusted . |
| 13 | For , once he knew the truth , he could no longer believe that she was the monster he had branded her , and that might lead him to abandon his marriage , whose only purpose , she was certain now , was to thwart her . |
| 14 | You just have to pretend that you 're the ghost who might meet you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You befriend the person and therefore do whatever a caring relative would do for them , care for their needs , so that they know that you 're the person they can turn to . |
| 16 | If I remind you that you are a person who is aware , receptive to new ideas and willing to give them a try , then my suggestion that you buy Ecover is likely to be well received . |
| 17 | Exercise 2 : Pretend that you are a witness who is going to have to give a description to the police . |
| 18 | ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey . |
| 19 | ‘ Because if you do , ’ said Owen , ‘ I will tell everyone that you are the man who receives money from Copts . ’ |
| 20 | Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are . |
| 21 | Imagine that you are the professional who sees this family regularly . |
| 22 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 23 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 24 | The younger nomes spoke saying , Would that we were the nomes our fathers were , to ride upon the Truck , and what was it like ? iv . |
| 25 | Virgin had , to a large extent , been built on Branson 's abilities at man-management and manipulation — his unrivalled capacity , as one friend put it , ‘ to get people to do things for him , and feel that they are the ones who have been done a favour ’ . |
| 26 | It 's time people gave some of our youngsters the credit for realising the state the country is in and knowing that they are the ones who are going to have to put it right — and are prepared to work hard to do so . |
| 27 | ( " most men like people to see that they are the ones who do the paying " ) |
| 28 | In the first place , the rules by which the group lives will not form a system , but will simply be a set of separate standards , without any identifying or common mark , except of course that they are the rules which a particular group of human beings accepts . |
| 29 | As we now contemplate our strategy for the years ahead , let us never forget that they are the people who sit huddled outside , waiting for us to get it right . ’ |
| 30 | Objective I is aimed at stressing to parents that they are the people who will solve the problem and that no-one else can solve it for them . |