Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I simply the latest victim in a long line ? ’ |
| 2 | Are we considering the potential equality of a variety ( which its speakers could develop if they wished ) or the actual equality of a variety , as it is used now ? |
| 3 | The interesting question arises : were the several widely acknowledged major episodes of mass extinction in the Phanerozoic caused by exceptional events different in kind from what occurred in the much lengthier intervening periods , or are they merely the spectacular end-members of a whole series ? |
| 4 | It 's on that Were you there the other day when we got that sheet ? |
| 5 | Nor is it yet the whole truth ; presenting the experiments in the way I have chosen , as I said at the beginning of this chapter , has been a logical way to tell a story , even if a story not yet adequately grounded in theory . |
| 6 | is , is it , is it just the second year that has erm , perhaps it not |
| 7 | Is this the full P A though or is it just the speaking P A ? |
| 8 | At length , Bunting recalled , ‘ the largest workman rose frowning and came to our table ; but what he said was : ‘ Is it no the great poet , Hugh MacDiarmid ? ’ |
| 9 | And is it not the best wood for coffins ? |
| 10 | It might not be a complete oversimplification to state that many of the profession 's difficulties with the lay public stem from the public 's basic incomprehension of what we write ; and yet is it not the particular beauty of the English language that the most appreciated and elegant words are in fact the simplest and most easily understood ? |
| 11 | Is it not the very catholicity of the Church which is in question ? |
| 12 | As a matter of interest on the raffle side , David , is it basically the two pound fifty person that buys the majority of the raffle tickets ? |
| 13 | .. ’ Nor is it merely the heavy stuff which comes with serious credentials . |
| 14 | Is it precisely the same meaning that the historian meant to convey ? |
| 15 | Why is it always the odd man out ? |
| 16 | Is it always the same advisers and no matter what advice they give and whether it is right or wrong they will always be there ? |
| 17 | Is it still the old crowd ? |
| 18 | Not only is he possibly the best friend I have , man friend , but ever since I ‘ came out ’ , he 's wanted to be rather more than that . ’ |
| 19 | Was I not the toughest kid in the whole street ? |
| 20 | you used to sing the weddings and that type of thing , or was it just the normal Sunday service ? |
| 21 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
| 22 | Was it mostly the bigger farms or did the peedie ones |
| 23 | Was it not the third Wednesday ? |
| 24 | was it always the same food there ? |