Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | now Mr what I 'm asking you about is the space see how I 'm speaking out so try and speak up like this so the jury can hear . |
| 32 | The only problem I have to tell you about is the cancellation of the Banbury to Paddington train that was due to arrive at Oxford at three minutes past seven . |
| 33 | All she forgot to tell you about was the killing of forty-seven Jews . ’ |
| 34 | So you 've got a way of analysing behaviour and what that leads you into is the ability to manipulate the consequences of certain behaviour , okay ? |
| 35 | ‘ Nicole and I are getting married , ’ said Sir Vivien , ‘ and we wanted you to be the first to know . |
| 36 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 37 | But I wanted you to be the first I told . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know . |
| 39 | I as a taxpayer pay money for clever chaps like you to be the production engineers of the Cabinet system of government . |
| 40 | You will also have made a discovery that what seems to you to be the main features or focus may be seen differently by other people with whom you come in contact . |
| 41 | Underline what seem to you to be the main or key words in the passage , including all names and any words beginning with capital letters . |
| 42 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 43 | ICL now reckons itself to be the second largest supplier in the UK , John Bennett , ICL 's Director of Marketing Support and Communications told the audience at a recent briefing . |
| 44 | The regime declares itself to be the only true guardian of socialism , but can offer no answer to what is happening elsewhere except to denounce foreign interference and to assert that communism must inevitably triumph . |
| 45 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 46 | And a sizeable inn which , with antique lettering , proclaimed itself to be the Hôtel Dejean . |
| 47 | The airport was to be built over the sea , partly on piles and partly on reclaimed land off Taipa Island , which was itself to be the subject of major development . |
| 48 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 49 | A declaration that someone was acting as a " quasi-arbitrator " would be likely itself to be the subject of a future application to the court as to what the declaration meant … |
| 50 | In Britain this attitude led to a bitter struggle between the Communists and the ILP , with each declaring itself to be the revolutionary leadership of the Left . |
| 51 | I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales ! |
| 52 | This paradoxical state of affairs is the result of three factors : due , first , to the large number of commanders who , like Wojciech Jaruzelski , trace their formative upbringing to the USSR and the Soviet organised First and Second Polish Armies of the Second World War ; secondly , to the social ostracism suffered by officers belonging to an army which prides itself on being the guardian of Communist as well as national values . |
| 53 | The ’ safety-deposit planet ’ , as it was called , prided itself on being the most secure place in the galaxy — and also one of the most law-abiding . |
| 54 | Having disciplined , explored and contained my own metaphysical anguish , having put down my own last worthy appetites , having separated myself by conscious decision from the filth and decadence of modern society , it is inevitable that my own hard-won sense of propriety or dignity should tempt me into being the scourge of other , more self-indulgent beings , fictional or not . |
| 55 | Well this is the area that you 'll have to do something about is the if you 're gon na knock it into the Winter Gardens this is the area that knocks into the Winter Gardens . |
| 56 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
| 57 | Men and women are all one in being the bride . |
| 58 | Former Top 40 presenter Tony Blackburn said : ‘ In the old days I think it meant something to be the Christmas No. 1 and there would be great excitement in the run-up to the last chart . |
| 59 | Together , we are the Church of the PRESENT — but we need to work as ONE to be the Church of the future ! |
| 60 | Once the most magnificent of the zenana buildings , it was the only one to be the exclusive residence of a single woman . |