Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the daughter of the darkest necromancer of them all . |
| 2 | I am the glory of the glorious , |
| 3 | I am the secretary/treasurer of the all-party pension group . |
| 4 | I am the goodness of the virtuous … |
| 5 | ‘ I am the leader of the forty-five members of the Bulgarian Monarchist Front , ’ he said . |
| 6 | During the meeting Brooke reportedly expressed the dismay of the UK government at these refusals , and reported on progress with unionist parties on the possibility of talks on devolution , while Collins said that the recent judgments on extradition had not been the responsibility of the Irish government . |
| 7 | The general trend towards central control , together with the introduction of LMS , which delegates to governors many of the management powers which have traditionally been the responsibility of the local authority , have conspired significantly to alter the role of the local education authority . |
| 8 | These trends are paralleled in the major centres , thereby reinforcing the suggestion that individual groups of sites may have been the responsibility of the same builders . |
| 9 | Housing had been the responsibility of the Urban Renewal Authority ( URA ) since the early 1970s when it achieved independent recognition through federal legislation . |
| 10 | The greatest improvement of all has of course been the removal of the old climate of repression and fear . |
| 11 | The second major change to the welfare state that has taken place since 1979 has been the abolition of the earnings-related supplements ( ERS ) . |
| 12 | Of these the most disturbing has been the tendency of the European centralists to dismiss as treasonable any attempt to debate the precise form of a united Europe . |
| 13 | Predominantly Russian Orthodox by religion although with a substantial Roman Catholic ( Uniate ) minority , Kievan Rus had been the origin of the Russian state in the ninth century and enjoyed an extended period of independence , but then came under Lithuanian , Polish and ( from the seventeenth century ) Russian control . |
| 14 | The fruit-eating primates of Africa seem to have been the origin of the human stock , one way or another , whether the immediate ancestors were derived from an Asiatic ‘ Homo erectus ’ or not . |
| 15 | He has been the coach for the last five seasons . |
| 16 | He has been the coach for the last five seasons . |
| 17 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
| 18 | More importantly it has also been the experience of the many students on whom the approach , exercises and problems have been piloted over the last four years . |
| 19 | This , for example , has been the experience of the medical profession viz-à-viz auxiliaries ( e.g. in physiotherapy ) and aspiring groups ( e.g. osteopaths ) . |
| 20 | In Tooting , one element that has been particularly important has been the experience of the miraculous . |
| 21 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 22 | It has been the fate of the Lebanese militias to inhabit the very ramparts of their own history . |
| 23 | Angela Cartwright had been the chairman of the local Tories for the past two years . |
| 24 | These criticisms have often been the crux of the public case against land drainage . |
| 25 | The new array of problems that we are now confronting highlights the complexity of the task in hand , while at the same time exposing the inherent weaknesses and the general philosophical insufficiency of an object-oriented ontological approach to the " problem of reality " , the categorial basis of which has been the subject of the past three chapters . |
| 26 | Two of these had earlier been the subject of the intensive case studies ( see Chapter 4 ) ; two had been involved in piloting the questionnaire and the head of another declined to take part in the survey on the grounds that he was just then attempting to introduce a scheme of SSE of his own devising . |
| 27 | Change and development have certainly been the keynote of the electronic information industry in 1991 . |
| 28 | Curtis recalled that it had only been the resourcefulness of the two kids and the fortunate intervention of the trucker Jube , that had saved his friend that night . |
| 29 | Prominent among them has been the thesis of the American sociologist Robert Merton to the effect that the values associated with Protestant asceticism gave a positive stimulus to the practical sciences . |
| 30 | Italy is moving rapidly in that direction , in pursuit of something that is ‘ enjoyable ’ at the same time as being ‘ not escapist ’ , that magic formula which Eco believes to have been the discovery of the American postmodernists ( with Barth as their prophet ) and to which in his own best-seller he aspired ( Eco 1985 : 65 — 72 ) . |