Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet further fumblings by Mr Major could haul Mr Clarke to the top job much earlier than that ‘ one more year ’ which , by Tory consensus , is now Mr Major 's time-limit for proving he is the right man to lead the country . |
| 2 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 3 | The need to enter printed text or data into computers without the effort of re-keying it is the driving force behind the development of optical character recognition ( OCR ) technology . |
| 4 | Another way of accenting it is the so-called à six temps , that is , two bars with six strong beats . |
| 5 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |
| 6 | I started by assuming it was the usual sort of thing but I 've made inquiries with our people in Narborough and I 'm not sure it was anything sexual . |
| 7 | For by insisting it is the only way to knowledge it is dismissing other ways as unimportant , irrelevant and probably misleading . |