Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I am the good shepherd , ’ he replied , ‘ not the hireling . |
| 32 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 33 | Day 5 I Am the Great Sun |
| 34 | I am the great sun , but you do not see me , |
| 35 | I am the great grandson of the founder of what is now the greatest , one of the greatest in , in Leningrad . |
| 36 | Waller was argumentative , opinionated , and sometimes outspoken , but he had a sense of humour ( ‘ I am the Wallerian degeneration ’ in reference to his father 's eponymous discovery ) and he retained an unworldly delight in science throughout his life . |
| 37 | Labours at me , I am the indulgent wood , |
| 38 | . Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish . |
| 39 | I am the sole survivor of my family . |
| 40 | I am the sole author of this book , although Monsieur Francois Bergot has agreed to write the introduction . |
| 41 | Sir , — I am the General Secretary of The Bankruptcy Association of Great Britain and Ireland and I am writing to express my continuing concern over the catastrophic numbers of people going bankrupt in business — many of them businesses of long standing . |
| 42 | ‘ I 'm Ron Barton and I 'll have you know that I am the Roving Correspondent of the True Brit , the newspaper with an even bigger circulation than the Sun , and I never laid a finger on , or up , the lady . |
| 43 | Moderator I present the report , and must ask the clerk to move the deliverance as I am the corresponding member . |
| 44 | I am the sunlight on ripened grain I am the gentle autumn rain . |
| 45 | I am the worrying sort . |
| 46 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 47 | I am the living Brian Jessel , a reserved man who is devoted to his family , with , yes , certainly , something of an interest in music . |
| 48 | I am the Special Projects Officer . |
| 49 | That 's Doctor Rock oh good I like him I really am the big fan of his . |
| 50 | I am always and everywhere his place ; if I am the barren land he thinks to water into an oasis I am also the blight on his crops and the locust destroying grain ; I am both the ruined harvest and the shameful blood that sickens cattle . |
| 51 | Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests . |
| 52 | I am the holy dove whom you will slay . |
| 53 | This training covers independence , consent , confidentiality , and inhuman treatment , and the importance of total independence and objectivity is accepted and encouraged by the Greater Manchester Police Force , for whom I am the senior police surgeon . |
| 54 | I am the institutional member as well as the marginally moving player . |
| 55 | I declare an interest in this matter , as I am the parliamentary adviser to the National Licensed Victuallers Association . |
| 56 | By the philosophers I am named Mercurius , he said there , my spouse is the gold ; I am the old dragon found everywhere on the globe of the earth , father and mother , young and old , very strong and very weak … often the order of nature is peversed in me . |
| 57 | This group was set up to support mums facing the challenges of their current of future employment outside the home and in fact now has links with the Working Mothers Association ( I am the local contact with WMA ) . |
| 58 | I am the Royal Commission on Kissing |
| 59 | He had lurched about a London drinking club soon after the Hiss case claiming ‘ I am the English Hiss ! ’ |
| 60 | So , she thought , I am the pretty lady . |