Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There are adequate championship courses in Britain and many of them are in the top hundred in the world . |
2 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
3 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
4 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
5 | Aha , I 'm over the hundred thousand I mean . |
6 | I 'm on the bloody black one ! |
7 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
8 | So I 'm not limited because I 'm by the lowest common denominator of other gateway approaches . |
9 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
10 | So if you are dismissed before the agreed age , you might have a claim for breach of contract , but not for unfair dismissal if you are over the normal retiring age for colleagues in your class of work . |
11 | economic about Taiwan and there 's a great deal of irony in this because you know here you are in the nineteen fifties in China rich peasant economy which is accepting and preserving inequalities |
12 | If you are among the few unlucky ones and would like to try an alternative attack — please get in touch with me . |
13 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
14 | Well , well you could say that 's a very er a purely e em emotional er response and you can understand that , but I want to speak to you er Colonel Michael , you 're with the Royal Green Jackets . |
15 | Now , you may be a little embarrassed to discuss how you work with people other than in this classroom , although , as the course goes on , you 'll find more and more people doing Hamlet in other classes , and you might find , especially when you 're in the upper sixth , when someone in the lower sixth comes to you and says , what does this mean that you can talk about it with them , okay . |
16 | ‘ If you 're in the top 10 and let go even for an instant then you might as well be 200 , ’ she says . |
17 | The more sensitive we are to the possible stigmatising consequences of charity , the less motivation there will be for giving . |
18 | Now that we are in the European Single market , the need for additional statistical reporting by VAT registered traders is on us . |
19 | For example , if we are in region 1 ( Fig. 6.6a ) and came from region 2 , we know we are in the lower horizontal band , which -is the intersection of region 1 and . |
20 | ‘ We see ourself as the biggest club in Britain , with a stadium to match , and we feel we are among the top five clubs in Europe . |
21 | It tells us how far we are from the Best Imaginable Performance ! |
22 | We 're on the dear old elevated section of the M4 where lorries are so apt to break down when there 's a call for McDunn ; he takes the handset , listens and sucks his teeth for a bit , then says , ‘ Thank you . ’ |
23 | So why are social workers directed people into the private sector , they are under the same constant pressure of letters from the private sector , the wingeing , the groaning , the moaning , the threats of legal action , the threats of judicial review as the rest of us . |
24 | These essential components of a fair defence would not be available to a defendant , as they are beyond the compulsory judicial process of US federal courts . ’ |
25 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
26 | We therefore might be misled into thinking that they are of the same logical type . |
27 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
28 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
29 | They are in the same binocular field , even with × 20 . |
30 | I do n't think they are going to change anything unless they are in the Top 10 . ’ |