Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraging them were the new links between British and American film companies that grew out of the quota legislation . |
| 2 | As it happens , I do n't think I 'm the right person to lead humanity into the future , no . |
| 3 | I do n't think I 'm the only volunteer who 's ashamed of their early attitude to AIDS and I 'm only glad that we had the sense , collectively , to listen to reason before the calls began . |
| 4 | To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help . |
| 5 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 6 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 7 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads . |
| 9 | When you awaken in the morning hush I am the uplifting rush Of quiet birds encircled flight I am the soft stars that shine at night . |
| 10 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 11 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 12 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 13 | I still do n't know do n't know which is the top grill the oven the top oven the bottom oven . |
| 14 | I have not yet been given any reason for our lack of success on this occasion , and I do not yet know which were the successful applicants . |
| 15 | This method represents the following dose , 8 tablespoons = ( 160ml ) = ⅛ granule/tablespoon ( 20ml ) diluted x 10 = per 20ml so a 5ml dose = granule which is the weakest dose Hahnemann recommends but takes the patient only 8–10 days to finish and be ready for the next potency up . |
| 16 | It is useful to know which is the likely response to your committed attack and that is one way of finding out . |
| 17 | It is not possible , using this technique , to discover which is the semantic head in the highest construction in a simple sentence , that is to say , the subject-predicate construction . |
| 18 | Use a little star to indicate which is the asymmetric centre which kiral centre and all it means is that if you were to dra , if you had a a kiral molecule in other words , it had four different groups attached to it what it means is that it and it 's mirror image , this is the way you actually draw it and answer the questions you draw you draw it as if there was a mirror image . |
| 19 | It 's difficult to know who 's the bigger dreamer , Franco Sbarro or Willy Koenig , who is convinced he 'll find 30 buyers for his 236mph , £700,000 C62 Porsche-engined , Porsche 926 race-car clone . |
| 20 | ‘ They say she 's the youngest prima ballerina ever to dance at the Coliseum . ’ |
| 21 | They all say you are the best houngan in Haiti . |
| 22 | Erm , we also , again I mean , as you say , we always look at ourselves and say we 're the best team in the company . |
| 23 | Erm I shall pass no comment on those , but I do know whose was the lowest bid . |
| 24 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 25 | How do we know they 're the proper people to have sight of these — documents ? |
| 26 | ‘ I expect they 're the same ones he used to tell me . ’ |
| 27 | You wo n't know it 's the real thing unless you ( and she ) still feel the same in , oh , a year or so at least ; that 's the only way to prove you are n't living a dragonfly mistake . |
| 28 | ‘ Did you know it 's the biggest bank in the United States ? ’ |
| 29 | A lot of things that I 'd still do here if , if I could whip up some enthusiasm if my husband would , I ca n't , he was a bricklayer , sub contractor and they have knocked this kitchen out about three times since they 've been there , and the last , this last effort , I think they 've put imitation beams in , I have n't seen it , but we think they have and er , oh it 's , you would n't know it 's the same house at all , you would n't know it |
| 30 | There was something at St Michael 's but I did n't know it was the one world week . |