Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Least successful so far in winning customers has been the Eucom joint venture between France Telecom and the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , but even they may well be welcomed as WorldPartners by AT&T , despite the heavy whiff of state bureaucracy that hangs over both of them . |
| 2 | I will be next week , but up to now I 've been the Deputy Managing Director . |
| 3 | Semenov had at one time been the Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 4 | More significant has been the comeback this season of guide Ivano Ghirardini . |
| 5 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 6 | Mr Fittipaldi , who has twice been the Formula One champion , held off Mr Luyendyk to score his second Indy-500 victory . |
| 7 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 8 | Could it have been the age old story of having more children to keep you when you get old ? |
| 9 | The other models are the HP 5000 F100/Turbo and F100XP . |
| 10 | Bright florals are the rage this season so you 'll need a subtle shade of tights to complement rather than overpower your outfits . |
| 11 | The teachers , workers , and pupils together must be members of a social unit in the same way as parents , relatives , and children are the family social unit … . |
| 12 | There you are the silver engraved silver pocket watch , a nice little pendant watch , and we 'll have it again now . |
| 13 | But a fantastic aspect to Mars in Cancer shows that you are the instigator this time , and you have the ability to melt someone 's heart — or break the ice , at the very least . |
| 14 | ‘ We are the number one chain of ‘ American ’ restaurants in Europe . |
| 15 | Other television tie-ins due to appear later this year are the Channel 4 Garden Club book , by Arthur Taylor and Roy Lancaster ( Sidgwick & Jackson , April , £14.99 , 0 283 06153 7 ) — virtually the transcripts of the series — and Stefan Buczacki 's Bazaar : The Budget Gardening Year ( BBC , June , £4.99 , 0 563 36779 2 ) , a garden calendar whose puzzling title will presumably be explained by the series of that name starting in July . |
| 16 | You 're the Deputy 19 Director — in case you 've forgotten . |
| 17 | Well we 're travel retailers and primarily dealing with overseas holidays and erm with five hundred shops round the country we 're the number one retailer . |
| 18 | But it 's unlikely you 'll have heard of ’ Awatinas ’ … as they 're the number one group in Bolivia . |
| 19 | the revised criteria and and and as you 've just read it out , I think for consistency with paragraph thirty three of P P G three , there needs to be the word unacceptable coalescence . |
| 20 | Mr Dickinson said : ‘ From what I understand what has happened is that last year the county championships were held the week after the Spring Bank Holiday and some counties have automatically presumed that this would be the case this year Cleveland and Northumberland included . |
| 21 | ‘ Forgive me , dear lady , but that did not appear to be the case last night . ’ |
| 22 | Moray Lawson will be the editor next issue so we wish him luck ( he 'll need it ) . |
| 23 | This should be taken as referring to the office of head teacher , so that where a person is acting in place of the head teacher ( usually this will be the deputy head teacher ) , s/he will be able to exercise this power . |
| 24 | And it 'll be the boy this time . ’ |
| 25 | The switch finally used must be the metal cased type not the glass envelope type . |
| 26 | Already a fashion favourite , you can bet it 'll be the rage this summer , too . |
| 27 | It therefore adjoins Ursa Major , and in ancient times Thuban or Alpha Draconis used to be the north polar star . |
| 28 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |
| 29 | Perhaps this is only a witty pleasantry ; it may also be the delight this woman takes in her young friend 's success . |
| 30 | The cheapest and simplest method will be the air powered sponge filter . |