Example sentences of "[pron] be [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am but companion to the lady Anne . ’ |
| 2 | Yes : and I am that salmon |
| 3 | Branson stood beside Simon Draper , visibly shaking , his face set in a grim mask , ‘ I ca n't tell you , ’ he began , ‘ how sad I am that people have felt the need to have a meeting , without Simon and I being present . |
| 4 | ‘ As certain as I am that Queen Margaret has two tits ! |
| 5 | I am that God to whom you w ill not pray . |
| 6 | I am cos Mr erm said I could |
| 7 | Old Mother Jacobsen would chuckle over this : ‘ How much wiser must I be than Odin , I who have neither eye ! ’ |
| 8 | Because I 'm because John Gummer 's responsibilities extend a long way into things like housing and stuff as well do n't they ? |
| 9 | But if I 'm if kids are giving me work first thing in the morning and I 've got them in the afternoon they 're gon na expect it to be marked ! |
| 10 | No well I 'm if people pull out they 've got their own reasons . |
| 11 | Yes and I 'm and Sophie 's partner today . |
| 12 | Yet because I could not bear to lie where I was and chance being seen , I jumped up with a great bound and confronted her . |
| 13 | There was Defries and his girlfriend and the guy I was and David called a couple of times . |
| 14 | It would have been sensible to stay where I was until daylight , but that was the one thing I was determined not to do . |
| 15 | A more revolutionary proposal of his was that England players should train together regularly , an idea derived from his visit to Holland , where the national players came together for coaching once a week , and were given lectures and ‘ homework ’ exercises . |
| 16 | Swift ye are as streams and soundless as the dew fall , |
| 17 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
| 18 | All went to plan , until he was delayed by a revolution in Venezuela , the consequences of which were that Stewart missed the replay which Casuals lost 4–1 . |
| 19 | As museums keep asking for more public money , should they not heed public opinion , which is that works of art exist to be seen and should not be stashed away in cellars but should be got up and out and on view ? |
| 20 | Job preferment stigmatises those who do not need help , starts a backlash from whites and reinforces the myth of racial inferiority , the most pernicious effect of which is that blacks have believed it as much as whites . |
| 21 | The Transfer Regulations reverse the common law position which is that persons employed in that business will be redundant unless the vendor has other business in which they can be redeployed . |
| 22 | Finally , the index is intended to remedy one defect of the book , which is that topics , theories and approaches recur at different places as we go along . |
| 23 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |
| 24 | Despite their many differences , deep ecology , animal welfare , and anti-cruelty have some fundamental similarities , the most important of which is that individuals are morally expendable — expendable for the deep ecologist as long as the good of the biotic community is sustained or promoted , expendable for the animal welfarist as long as the welfare of others is protected or advanced , and expendable for those who accept the anti-cruelty position , as long as worthy ends are not obtained by means that cause excessive suffering . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend has put his finger on a major advantage of the situation , which is that conservationists and farmers in environmentally sensitive areas are learning to work together . |
| 26 | All this is true , but it entirely misses the point , which is that snorers either drink too much , smoke too much or eat too much . |
| 27 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 28 | I think one can point to another fact which is that Monsieur Mitterand comes from a political party erm which resembles that of his predecessor in being pro-European . |
| 29 | Conservationists ' estimates vary between 3,000 and 4,000 ; but everybody agrees on the most important point , which is that numbers are no longer growing , but shrinking fast . |
| 30 | This arises from the essence of this type of system which is that patients can go anywhere for treatment , and their home authority must pay for such treatment , whether or not it is considered necessary for that particular patient , whether or not that type of treatment figures in the local priorities , and whether or not there are ‘ more deserving ’ cases within the authority . |