Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | T his is a true waste of resources . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought , if I tell the driver I 'm a real archbishop and I 'll pay him the other end he 'll just say , ‘ Oh , stuff it , mate ! ' ’ |
| 3 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |
| 4 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 5 | ‘ I have played alongside internationals wherever I have been , so of course I am a better player , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Someone has to do something about it , and of course I 'm the obvious person . |
| 7 | By the end of the afternoon I was a nervous wreck . |
| 8 | But once at university I was an apt student . |
| 9 | If you call him Moke I 'm the only person that calls i that calls him that , so he 'll know who you 're related to . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll show these scoundrels I 'm an honest woman , ’ said my mother . |
| 11 | In your mind I was a scarlet woman and could be nothing else . |
| 12 | For six months I was the best customer the Porteneil Pet Shop had , going in every Saturday to get a couple of beasts , and about every month buying a tube of badminton shuttlecocks from the toyshop as well . |
| 13 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 14 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 15 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 16 | If she is not data she is an intervening variable to be eliminated . |
| 17 | By the way just for the tape she 's a right fuck . |
| 18 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 19 | Among the many shocks being delivered by the declining years of the twentieth century is that of discovering , after decades of thinking we were the true moderns , how modern they could already be at the other end of the century . |
| 20 | Five B status is going to bring in two to three million a year over the next five years , the total cost of running the scheme is one point three million pounds , in effect we 're a net contributor |
| 21 | Most of the time Harry was playing for Crystal Palace we were a Third Division club and so it is not surprising that most of the great achievements to which he helped to take us were in the FA Cup . |
| 22 | Cabinet colleague on Chris Patten , scriptwriter to the PM We are an easy target , just 14 defenceless women with no expertise . |
| 23 | You could see in some of their eyes they were a little bit |
| 24 | In the public mind they 're a single entity . |
| 25 | The people who make these panels are closely related to estate agents , in other words they are a lower life-form . |
| 26 | Yeah , you 'll have to learn about woman Toby they 're a funny bunch of creatures . |
| 27 | In effect at a traditional first wedding they are the honoured guests of the hosts , her parents . |
| 28 | Winners They were the clever deal makers with an impeccable and infallible sense of timing |
| 29 | It is learning about religion it 's an educational process and it has an importance , whether it 's learning about religion and whether its learning it as a cultural , historical and a religious er tradition of the country and that is what is important . |
| 30 | Bradley Star is a very nice horse he 's a classy performer this one , Josh Gifford 's horses are in tremendous form and I was talking to the man who who rides him Deckland Murphy he 's my next door neighbour he thinks he 'll run a big race . |