Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People say they were the good old days , but oh I do n't think . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't know about that , but I do know it 's the only good look I 'm going to get for months so I 'm making the most of it . ’ |
| 3 | But Vicky Cooper says she 's the official carnival queen . |
| 4 | ‘ I imagine you 're the only serious candidate . |
| 5 | Heg says it 's the right wan . ’ |
| 6 | Mother says it 's the good fresh air on the moor that makes them so hungry . |
| 7 | Calder Publications says it is the only authorised publisher of the title and will have its own hardcover edition available in the spring . |
| 8 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 9 | Visiting teams from the Soviet Union , United States , German Federal Republic and France all stare bemused on arrival , and they become even more astounded when told it is the only indoor facility in the country . |
| 10 | Erm but you know they are the actual Inland Revenue . |
| 11 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |
| 12 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 13 | One of the first to treat her was the noted Jungian psychotherapist Dr Allan McGlashan , a friend of Laurens van der Post , who has consulting rooms conveniently near to Kensington Palace . |
| 14 | They still thought he was the top British sprinter . |
| 15 | Red Hand may think he is the only sane man around here . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ As far as this part of the city is concerned , ’ Maidstone went on after the drinks had arrived , ‘ I think I 'm the only resident Englishman . ’ |
| 17 | Then on the third page , some wards with very high rates of unemployment , I think they are the top twenty if memory serves me right . |
| 18 | also newcastle fans have two HUGE flags which they transport around the ground , everyone lifting the flag around — i think it 's the only english club iv'e seen doing that — you see this kind of flagging from time to time around europe ( even up here in Trondheim ) |
| 19 | I think it was the old Gladding Masters match , he did n't win it ( Pete Palmer did ) , but he had plenty of big names behind him ( I think the editor might have been one of them ) and showed why he must have been greatly feared in his prime . |
| 20 | The eyes … sometimes looking bewildered , even desperate , but I think it was the horrible bright lights which are the worst part of it all . |
| 21 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 22 | What brings all of the x86 family together , primarily because of MSDOS , is that they can all pretend they are the original 8086 , if a bit faster . |
| 23 | They specifically denied they were the Arab Revolutionary Cells Group , originally believed to be holding Mr Reed . |
| 24 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |
| 25 | As the cab drove out of Frankfurt to the address on the way to the airport , Horowitz , sitting erect , case in his lap , reflected he was the only real professional in this game . |
| 26 | He said it was the crucial first step in the process of removing the scars from the Lanarkshire landscape . |
| 27 | You said it was the only reasonable thing to do , yet now , when at last I agree , you say it 's too late . ’ |
| 28 | I said it was the sudden fresh air that had done it . |
| 29 | Mr Hughes believes it is the only such electronic game aimed at an adult market and the only one not designed and manufactured in the Far East . |