Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |
| 2 | Apart from himself , the only people he really cares about are his listeners ; the radio relationship is the only sort of genuine love-affair he 's ever known . |
| 3 | The only people he really feels any curiosity about are his listeners — ’ |
| 4 | Their brochure claims : ‘ All you have to pay for are your meals at the prices specified and any extras such as drinks , wines and spirits . ’ |
| 5 | The thunderous applause after Be My Downfall , a cover of Free 's A Little Bit Of Love and the much shouted for Move Away Jimmy Blue was well deserved . |
| 6 | She said er it makes me wonder if I 'd left my purse in the car if it had of been our car that might have been dumped . |
| 7 | I 've had mine done twice , mine done twice , mm , the police were up the other day lying in ambush , and I 'd spotted them and phoned the local police station and said there 's men lurking in the bushes of are they policemen ? , she said yes madam , they 're policemen . |
| 8 | The reference to ‘ Europe ’ is thus evidence of the old German characteristic of being what Thomas Mann called ‘ unpolitical ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's by way of being her foster-son . ’ |
| 10 | Maria paused at the bathroom door , her eyes shadowed as she looked back at him , her lover — who was ashamed of being her lover . |
| 11 | She accused her of being her husband 's mistress . |
| 12 | At some level every child is aware of being their parent 's future and by this act , the parent is rejecting what they offer . |
| 13 | This manager stuffed money down their throat under the guise of being their friend and adviser . |
| 14 | I began to think she would be worthy in time of being my mistress , which till now I had been a little scrupulous about . |
| 15 | Wednesday Matters : The agony of being my father 's son IN THE WINGS |
| 16 | Both Bachofen and Morgan believed that , since you belonged to the group by virtue of being your mother 's son , women in such a system must have a particularly high status . |
| 17 | Nothing else can explain his attitude to the young Greg LeMond , who had the mixed fortune of being his teammate . |
| 18 | There is only one requirement of re , to receiving God 's gift of the Holy Spirit and that is the requirement of being his child . |
| 19 | Hot Springs boasts of being Clinton 's boyhood home and the village of Hope of being his birthplace . |
| 20 | But one thing she is certain of is her aim to attract new audiences to the gallery , notably from those who are not yet photography lovers . |
| 21 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
| 22 | Sex therapist Carol Botwin , author of Is There Sex After Marriage ? |
| 23 | So , if talk of painting the town red brings the flaking bathroom walls to mind , in the only rush of spontaneity you can think of is your baby 's before you 've managed to get her clean nappy on , maybe you 're missing out . |
| 24 | The only place she could think of was her father 's . |
| 25 | The only thing they could be certain of was his propensity for violence . |
| 26 | All he could think of was his stepfather 's pale face on the pillow , and the ragged sound of his breathing . |
| 27 | What I was in search of was my son . |
| 28 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 29 | The French colt , Machiavellian , now heads the market for the 2,000 Guineas at between 7-1 and 10-1 , with Be My Chief , who has twice beaten Balla Cove , disputing second favouritism with Mukddaam at around 12-1 . |
| 30 | SINGER Vanessa Paradis , at Number 13 in the charts with Be My Baby , finds success has its drawbacks . |