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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Jeremy is coming with me but he is too young to do this alone , and in any case I 'm the only one who can deploy O'Brien . ’
2	Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual .
3	And of course I was the only one that was single .
4	Someone has to do something about it , and of course I 'm the obvious person .
5	‘ Not yet ’ , was the reply : ‘ At present I am the Member of Parliament for Henley ’ ! ’
6	At present I am the ROV ( remote operated vehicle ) supervisor on board the Ataawhai , working for Brunei Shell Petroleum , doing oil and gas offshore platform inspections .
7	If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day .
8	Whenever the papers wanted a quote they came to me , when the local radio wanted an interview I was the spokesperson .
9	No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so
10	‘ Of all the people in my class at naval college I am the only one still in the service . ’
11	You do know how much emotion you are the cause of back there , do n't you ? ’
12	The better you are the more you win , and , consequently , you face less pressure and so it becomes easier to win .
13	They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon .
14	To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan .
15	Among the many shocks being delivered by the declining years of the twentieth century is that of discovering , after decades of thinking we were the true moderns , how modern they could already be at the other end of the century .
16	They are horribly expensive but to my mind they are the best .
17	What about a fried egg sandwich they 're the ones !
18	I mean you know drugs and violence they 're the things in life what can really hurt you and damage you .
19	In effect at a traditional first wedding they are the honoured guests of the hosts , her parents .
20	In essence they are the group 's instruction manual , or practice notes as our architectural mem er colleagues prefer to call them .
21	But in essence they 're the main er er the main aspects of er of of er what was meant by liberalism in the er in in er the nineteenth century .
22	On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the grandson of a Christian minister .
23	On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the great-grandson of a Christian minister .
24	The 70th was raised in Surrey in 1756 and as a result it was the junior of the two regiments .
25	If the security forces are thick on the ground and loyalist gunmen commit murder it is the result of collusion .
26	In the early days of the development of anthropology it was the fashion to place culture on an evolutionary ladder ranging from primitive to developed .
27	Eryngium alpinum I have saved almost to the last , not because it is common , which it is , but rather that to my mind it is the loveliest representative of the Umbelliferae family ( which includes , strange though it may seem , the carrot ) .
28	In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low .
29	is a fisher it 's the only one I know , I mean I know a few .
30	The theory is that only the maternal chromosomes permit a viable egg to develop in the hybrid ; in the mule this is the horse set , while in the hinny it is the donkey .