Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I was the mature woman , faced with new kids in the workplace . |
| 2 | Perhaps I 'm the first woman who has asked for their vote . ’ |
| 3 | Well I mean obviously I 'm the obvious alternative is er financial planning |
| 4 | So you 're the right person to ask the |
| 5 | So you 're the big boss are you ? |
| 6 | So we are the only Committee who are saving the , that 's taking our budget globally as , I think , I think it 's four point eight percent , if you want to be pedantic about it , but we are planning and that 's the only ones , if you take that mode of view , and if we took , if we took training out |
| 7 | Apparently they are the worst floods we have had in Suffolk since 1954 . |
| 8 | Mr. Graham : Perhaps they are the professional advisers who advised the Government to sell the royal ordnance factory in my constituency for a pittance to people who later recouped the price in one sale . |
| 9 | Perhaps they were the last days before the final eclipse . |
| 10 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 11 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 12 | Although this trio again blended well together it was the tremendous ability of McClure which sealed the ticket to Ayr . |
| 13 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 14 | Through the creative agency of his Word and his Spirit God is the author and giver of faith ; naturally he is the prime resolver of doubt . |
| 15 | The funeral cars and hearse have blue flashing lights on the roof , very similar to a policecar , when I enquired as to the reason for this , apparently it 's the only way they can get around the island for the traffic and the laid-back attitude of the locals . |
| 16 | It 's worth reminding readers who are parents of this with the start of the school holidays next month — apparently it 's the prime time for solvent abuse . |
| 17 | Apparently he was the National Chairman , which was a bit of a thrill ; on the other hand , he was also a terrific scruff . |
| 18 | True , a haircut , a smattering of designer stubble , the odd earring and a spot of UVA can make a difference , but basically it 's the inner man who 's on display . |
| 19 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 20 | Historians have long argued about the ‘ rise ’ of this group , but basically it was the collective experience of nearly fifty individual families who became the pacesetters of Elizabethan Sussex . |
| 21 | We are not saying , that necessarily it 's the right thing to do , but it seems to me people are going to do it anyway , are n't they . |
| 22 | So that 's a easy way to make sure that you , because that was the first thing you went for now , in the exam you might well put that down and think , oh , hang on , does n't look right , perhaps it 's the other way up |
| 23 | Perhaps it 's the best thing that could have happened . |
| 24 | Perhaps it 's the only tune they know . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps it 's the innocent expression that 's faded . ’ |
| 26 | and the third thing is erm I frankly do n't understand perhaps it 's the same point as er that this below the line item , I mean it 's taken below the line it must come from somewhere . |
| 27 | An exquisite unreality catches the earth , or perhaps it is the ultimate reality . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) , who is willing to continue to enunciate the principle that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 30 | If these examples reveal anything , perhaps it is the unwelcome truth that most of us are better at memorizing and applying formulae for solving certain types of predictable problems than we are at generating imaginative solutions to unfamiliar problems . |