Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make a good double act in the Treasury team , where she is shadow Chief Secretary . |
| 2 | Sabrina France , 37 , lavished gifts on Detective Constable Michael France by stealing from a Bupa hospital where she was business office manager . |
| 3 | I have always said that there are thousands of qualified accountants sitting out there in small companies where they are finance directors , credit controllers , company secretaries , advisers to the board , the people to whom the board looks for everything . |
| 4 | The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art produced his Shut up and Sing in 1960 and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , where he was music director from 1963 to 1973 , produced his Excuse Me for Living in 1964 . |
| 5 | Lamen Khalifa Fhimah , one of the two men named in the indictment , was said to have stored the explosives at Malta 's Luqa airport , where he was LAA station manager , and to have built the bomb with the second defendant , Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi , Libya 's chief of airline security , hiding it in a Toshiba radio . |
| 6 | retired from , where he was export services manager , in May 1982 after completing 43½ years of loyal and valuable service to the Company . |
| 7 | Also joining RDW is Suzanne 25 , from Liverpool Playhouse , where he was youth arts marketing and publicity assistant . |
| 8 | He has worked in the Plant Records Department , Pay Section , where he was group office assistant , and also cashier in the Cash Office . |
| 9 | Or it 's Grandpa Granddad 's in American is n't he ? |
| 10 | You know that I am Mrs Honoria Greville ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have been a consumer researcher for so long that I am Consumer Correspondent always on the look-out for a new subject to investigate . ’ |
| 12 | I know beyond question that I am Oedipus and he is I. I should make it clear that I hold no truck with the theory of reincarnation ; it is just as clear to me that I am Marie Romanov , whose life overlapped with mine . |
| 13 | I know , for instance , that I am Marie Romanov , struggling through snowdrifts in the Winter Palace in Petersburg , and finding the gold clock still ticking at her bedside . |
| 14 | So I did n't say , ‘ Okay , I 'm Joe and I can play anything and I 'm going to make sure that everyone knows on every song that I 'm Master Shredder ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That I 'm Sally-Anne Tunstall , yes . |
| 16 | I telephoned Capital Radio 's Helpline , saying that I was Linford Christie and needed help . |
| 17 | Right , so then you 'd guess that I was Saint Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 18 | I found that I was spending money every day . |
| 19 | My daughter told me that I was chrome yellow , and a glance in the mirror proved her right . |
| 20 | ‘ What was required of me was an affidavit from India swearing that I was Samir Mehta and owned Rasiklal & Sons . |
| 21 | Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney . |
| 22 | What makes this one a bit special is that she is Wilbur Smith 's glamorous wife and the media are certain to love her . |
| 23 | And it 's a scientifically proven fact that she is Mary Magdalene reincarnated — BP |
| 24 | I was under the impression all the time that she was Elizabeth Taylor . ’ |
| 25 | I was informed that she was Mairi Hedderwick . |
| 26 | It was only later that I learned , quite by chance , that she was Janet Bloomfield , author of The Fallen Land , the recent prize-winning novel based on the tragedy of the collapse of the Paisley Close ( ‘ Heave awa ’ , lads ’ ) tenement in Edinburgh in 1862 . |
| 27 | According to one of the staff , she believed that she was Queen Victoria and did not like anyone encroaching on the space around her throne . |
| 28 | I discovered that she was Miss Temple , the headmistress of Lowood school . |
| 29 | The Princess found herself having to explain that she was not ‘ domineering ’ , but ‘ a perfectionist with myself , but not with everybody else ’ , and that she was Princess Anne 's ‘ biggest fan . |
| 30 | I 'm quite prepared to accept that you 're Miss Fanshawe now , Miss Fanshawe , ’ Wexford said . |