Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the centre of my life , why should n't I be my own most cherished lover ? |
| 2 | ‘ I am the centre of my existence , ’ Clare sang , as if chanting a psalm , pitching her voice an octave lower , as she pushed Josh to her playgroup the next morning . |
| 3 | Kaptan asked and , in malai , I said , ‘ I am the servant of your father and mother , Kaptan , and your servant , too . ’ |
| 4 | I am the steward of my lord Robert Beaumont 's manor of Huncote . |
| 5 | Acquiring its contents had been the purpose of her outing , but she no longer cared about it . |
| 6 | The Queen had already been informed ; this had been the purpose of his visit to Sandringham the previous day , which had generally been regarded as part of the normal routine , and not as marking any special occasion . |
| 7 | It may not have been the origin of his interest in such people but clearly played a formative part in his development . |
| 8 | And he looked directly at the woman who had been the origin of his biting anger and smiled again . |
| 9 | For whereas two individual kings had been removed , it had been the experience of their personal rule which had provoked men into lethal opposition . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's been the experience of my chums that offspring break up marriages . |
| 11 | But that had been a piercing of her body , a searing of her mind — but this encounter had been the captivation of her soul . |
| 12 | As he darkened his palette in Drenthe , this had been the thrust of his art of darkness . |
| 13 | The Lawrentian hero of A. Alvarez 's first novel , Hers ( 1974 ) , makes a broadly similar choice , selling off his hardbacks as a final gesture of abandonment ; and when the hero of Michael Frayn 's The Trick of It ( 1989 ) beds a lady whose writings have been the subject of his lectures and publications , he finds the experience amorously disappointing . |
| 14 | In fact , however , the second point — the reality of God 's giving himself to be known in Jesus Christ — was always the real focus of his concern , and he came to stress it more and more as the years passed , and as he moved away from what he later said to have been the one-sidedness of his earlier writings . |
| 15 | Most were commercial failures and publishers quietly dropped them and returned to textbooks , the monomedia which had always been the core of their business . |
| 16 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 17 | Next week , if the plot had not been uncovered , it would apparently have been the turn of his white comrade , Joe Slovo . |
| 18 | And in more stable times , that may have been the secret of their success . |
| 19 | He left England on 27 October and two days later he lectured at Hamburg on " The Idea of a Christian Society " ; the tour , which he made with Arnold Toynbee , included visits to nine cities , but he complained later that not the least exhausting part of it had been the expectation from his hosts that lie was some kind of oracle as well as a poet . |
| 20 | One of the reasons Lukic went wobbly last season , apart from the trauma connected with the infamous Rangers punch , could have been the state of his ever-changing defence . |
| 21 | Tell the King that Mohamed Srifi 's only crime seems to have been the expression of his peaceful political views . |
| 22 | I lifted the receiver and listened and it must have been the expression on my face which stopped him in the doorway . |
| 23 | Pippin I 's recurrent problem had been the meddling of his father , ex-king of Aquitaine . |
| 24 | Of one thing she was convinced , however , and that was that she had actually regressed to a previous life and that it had not simply been the work of her imagination . |
| 25 | The duke 's first establishment as a junior member of the royal family had probably been created by secondment from the royal household , as had also been the case for his brother Clarence . |
| 26 | The duke 's first establishment as a junior member of the royal family had probably been created by secondment from the royal household , as had also been the case for his brother Clarence . |
| 27 | Korpi concludes that workplace bargaining is not more under the control of the central union organs in Swedish manufacturing industry than has been the case with its British counterpart . |
| 28 | ‘ That has certainly not been the case in my time at this club . |
| 29 | As had not been the case throughout her first sojourn at the Lodge , she would start from her thoughts at some unexpected sound — a movement of the timbers , a mouse stirring in the wainscot , a drenched thrush fluffing its feathers in the thatch-eaves . |
| 30 | It was not difficult for Laura to remember the first time she had set eyes on Ross Wyndham , because it had also been the day of her cousin 's wedding . |