Example sentences of "be the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Department of Energy will be shocked to learn from this article that I am Britain 's man on the loss of fluid test ( LOFT ) project , because that agency is currently providing me with a handsome salary on the understanding that I am the US Department of Energy 's man on the selfsame project . |
| 2 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 3 | I am the Chelsea captain and it is my duty to try to protect my players . ’ |
| 4 | I am the Lord 's servant ; as you have spoken , so be it ( Luke 1:38 ) . |
| 5 | His own role is emphatically stated : ‘ I am the Lord 's News-Writer — the scribe-evangelist ’ ( B327 ) . |
| 6 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 7 | I am the TCCB 's lackey , and I act only when they order me . ’ |
| 8 | I am the Christ Child . ’ |
| 9 | At present I am the ROV ( remote operated vehicle ) supervisor on board the Ataawhai , working for Brunei Shell Petroleum , doing oil and gas offshore platform inspections . |
| 10 | I am the Kha-Khan 's trusted servant , and he has given me everything I ever asked of him : this land in perpetuity , peace and security for our clan forever . ’ |
| 11 | She may have been the Elizabeth Mansell christened 26 December 1762 at St Botolph , London , the daughter of John Mansell and his wife Susannah . |
| 12 | The ‘ Mess ’ is now thought to have been the Quartermaster 's Stores . |
| 13 | I think it might have been The Alexander . |
| 14 | The evening was honoured with the presence of Princess Margaret ; and very generously sponsored and presented by Digital Equipment Company , who have been the Sadler 's Wells Theatre 's main sponsor since 1986 . |
| 15 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 16 | Sport now , and the major talking point at Oxford Stadium today has been the Oxford City Council decision to agree planning permission for the stadium to extend their grandstand leisure complex . |
| 17 | It was assumed that a number of serving ministers from Hun Sen 's Cambodian People 's Party ( CPP , the new name chosen in October by what had been the Khmer People 's Revolutionary Party or KPRP ) would resign to make way for representatives of the monarchist Funcinpec Party led by Sihanouk 's son Norodom Ranaridh . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's always been the Liverpool way — if someone takes your place and does well , you accept it . |
| 19 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 20 | Two years before , it had been the Giffens ' workroom . |
| 21 | It has been the IPC 's policy this year to try and raise the Bar 's profile abroad and enhance its influence . |
| 22 | PETER WOODWARD has been the UK Manager of the Shell Better Britain Campaign since 1988 . |
| 23 | In the four Ryder Cups in which I 've been the Captain Seve has played in every round and I 'm grateful to him for that . |
| 24 | He is presumed to have been the William Hickey whose death was recorded in London 31 May 1830 . |
| 25 | The result has been the Cashline availability has gone up from 92 per cent to 97 per cent in the last eighteen months . ’ |
| 26 | It is by this inclusion also of other similar weapons that states have accepted that tear-gas is banned ; the only exception to this has been the USA , which did not in any case ratify the Protocol until 1975 . |
| 27 | Among the films I brought was that of the Scharnhorst and when its showing time was listed in the ship 's paper , I was informed that one of the passengers , a Captain Danckwerts , had been the Scharnhorst 's wartime assistant navigating officer . |
| 28 | It was accepted without question , even by the Copts , that Zoser had been the Zikr 's killer and the Moslems were pleased that the matter had ended in such a satisfactory and clean-cut way . |
| 29 | Just before what had been the Rampton Committee published its interim report ( see 1981 Rampton ) , Mr Antony Rampton was replaced as chairman by Lord Swann . |
| 30 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |