Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of McLeish as captain will , Roxburgh believes , remove an unwanted , additional pressure from McStay 's shoulders and let him be the midfield schemer who orchestrates the emphatic victory essential to Scotland 's progress . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Federation of Small Businesses reacted positively to the Budget and said it was the result of the Chancellor 's meeting its representatives and listening to what they were saying . |
| 4 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 5 | Today the Bangor editor said : ‘ We are determined to emulate our team and show we are the top dogs in north Down . |
| 6 | For Matthew and Mark it 's the prospect of a new school , old friends to leave , and new ones to make as well as a new system of education . |
| 7 | By the thirteenth century the right of founding a castle , repopulating an existing site and fortifying it was the exclusive privilege of the pope in Latium . |
| 8 | You could live your whole life in some tiny place and think it was the whole world . |
| 9 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |
| 10 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 11 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 12 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 13 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 14 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 15 | A girl who pummels a destructive little brother who ruins her toys and finds she is the one who gets into trouble feels hurt and angry . |
| 16 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 17 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 18 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |
| 19 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 20 | Sir J. Franklin desires me to give his compliments — he is in very good health & hopes you are the same . ’ |
| 21 | I want to play for my country and believe I am the man for the job . ’ |
| 22 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 23 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 24 | Family conflict and family tension certainly affect children 's mental health ( Rutter , 1981 ) and in assessing the impact of the loss of a parent through death and divorce it was the distortion of family relationships not the disruption of the bond with the parent in divorce that was critical ( Rutter , 1981 ) . |