Example sentences of "be [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd laugh if somebody asked for some , what are them lemon bonbons .
2 Or am I way off-base thinking that 's Cawthorne 's little war-gaming place down in Kent ?
3 Am I Robert Wilson ?
4 Am I Seamus O'Reilly ?
5 ‘ The only real wives I have ever had are my sailing ships ’ , he is reputed to have once said .
6 But these are my credit cards .
7 Dese are my tree cheeldrin … ’ ( then came the embarrassment which always petrified us ) …
8 These are my childhood idylls , when summer holidays were always hot and sunny .
9 Are my shoulder blades not fully in contact with the ground because my shoulders tend to be rounded ?
10 Here are my background assumptions .
11 ‘ Those are my car keys !
12 Other tears flow more from the solar plexus — my tear fountain — they are my Strauss tears , or more recently Berlioz 's Nuits d' Ete , certain pieces by Chopin , Elgar Cello concerto , Brahms violin concerto , the slow movement in Schubert 's string quartet , some of Bach 's choral music … the list goes on .
13 There , there are my studio windows . ’
14 So why are my neck hairs rising just writing about it ?
15 Anger tears are my Beethoven tears , wild and crashing .
16 ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail .
17 It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence .
18 They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , .
19 The chap who was to have been my ward partner has n't come back .
20 What would have been my lead story this morning if she had n't wafted in ? ’
21 How far are my/our teaching aims hindered by : timetable structures ; lack of resources ; school policies ; faculty policies ?
22 Locke 's distinction between complex ideas , and the simple ideas which are their component parts , copes with this .
23 Even though independent schools are just as neglectful in the courses which are offered to the non-convergent child as are their state counterparts , at least their parents draw comfort from a feeling that , through their cheque books , they are signalling respect for quality and individualism .
24 To what extent are their services community responsive and user friendly ?
25 Rather more conventional than the radical trap reactions of dithiadiazoles are their metal complexation reactions .
26 Then the sun is gone and it 's suddenly cold and the distant mountains are their night time black cut-out .
27 The Paint with Nancy videos are available from all good Daler-Rowney stockists , price £12.99 , as are their Nancy Kominsky oil sets , retailing at £32.99 .
28 Unbeaten Gloucester are their Courage visitors on Saturday and it was Loughborough , previously unbeaten until they met Quins , who stepped out at Sudbury last night .
29 Well how much are their delivery charges ?
30 One of the most interesting aspects of relational databases are their data manipulation languages .
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