Example sentences of "be the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I am the guard but what can I do on such a train ? |
| 2 | I am the Captain and my name is Robert Walton . |
| 3 | ‘ I am the Lord and there is no other ’ . |
| 4 | Er it was ne it 's never been the road that it was prior to that . |
| 5 | For the Compton family in Bicester life without a car has been the norm while their car is repaired after a serious accident . |
| 6 | Since then , cavity walls have been the norm as they offer better resistance to rain and damp penetration and have better sound and thermal characteristics . |
| 7 | Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we 've had to pay to get inflation down . |
| 8 | I think its a bit of a simplification to say that its , its nature 's way of keeping us going , because actually er ro , the idea that romantic love is the start of a life long relationship that produces off spring is really quite recent , erm for , for most of history er marriage 's were on the basis of continuing er lines , continuing property and people had to erm some how or other cope with living with ano another person that might not necessarily have been the person that they would of chosen from love and , and this is still true in many societies and situations now . |
| 9 | would n't have been the reading that we were given , because she said the brief in the erm th the work that we 've had to read |
| 10 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 11 | According to Ali , the Ayasofya medrese was already a 60-akce medrese In Mehmed II 's time ; and it appears generally to have been the case that it and , from the time of Bayezid II , the medrese of Murad II in Bursa ( the Muradiye ) and , more particularly , that of Bayezid II himself in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 , ranked higher in the first half of the sixteenth century than the Sahn in the sense that the muderrises appointed to them were normally promoted from the Sahn . |
| 12 | But she adds : ‘ It has always been the case that there are times when it is easier to talk to someone who is not that close to you about your problems . |
| 13 | Fleischmann and Pons worried that the numbers of neutrons that they appeared to be seeing were billions less than should have been the case if their heat data were correct and due to fusion . |
| 14 | Even so this sequence of events is very unlikely to happen and occurs some million times slower than would have been the case if there were neutrons there to start with . |
| 15 | So that in that sense the fundamental orientation is likely to change even less erm than one , than might have been the case if there 'd been a more radical change . |
| 16 | The evidence shows that in many cases the minister of state has set a date for the first review later than would have been the case if he had adopted the views expressed by the judiciary . |
| 17 | When he was fetched from the Common Room his walk had a touch of spring , and he came into Pumfrey 's presence a shade more jauntily than would have been the case if he had been interviewed earlier . |
| 18 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 19 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 20 | Must have been the weekend before he died . |
| 21 | ‘ If it had been the Queen and her corgis waiting , I would n't have picked them up . |
| 22 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 23 | had they been suing then that would of been met with a defence er counter claim settle and so on , erm and that would of been the answer that you ca n't enforce the claim under clause nine because it 's void , we did n't , we therefore ca n't , there 's no duty to keep the agent in funds , sue it to clause nine , it been a void clause |
| 24 | He had once been the leader and she had been the unquestioning follower , but all that had changed now . |
| 25 | It was only we Palace Roadites , and a few more , for Lots Road Power Station had been the target and they had not missed . |
| 26 | It was better than the other one , it might of been the seats but I do n't think so because I mean there was so much in this one |
| 27 | It might n't have been the class but there 's been some schoolin' there an' some refinement . |
| 28 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 29 | I regret that because there would have been the children after he 'd gone . ’ |
| 30 | The greatest cause of the Prince 's despondency had been the feeling that he served no useful purpose . |