Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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1 | None of this is a matter of syntax ; the intensional relations and the syntactic constructions which realize them are just the ones we have discussed in previous chapters . |
2 | The largest of them are also the country 's teaching hospitals , affiliated to the faculties of medicine in the universities . |
3 | While the functions of the primary and secondary markets differ it is no accident that the financial institutions participating in them are often the same , because an efficient secondary market , in which existing securities can be bought or sold easily , contributes in several important ways to the strength of the primary market . |
4 | In another sense most of them are quite the opposite , namely rejections of modern modes of political organisation , both national and supranational . |
5 | Now many people seem to think that technology means machines and equipment , but machines and equipment and the software that run them are only the products of technology . |
6 | My Mum and I are now the very best of friends , not really like mother and son . |
7 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I am also the boy who you met in the jungle . |
10 | I am also the woman who sat at the crossroads . |
11 | I am also the Great White Spirit that resides in the fifth dimension , everything is connected to my fingertips — by wires . ’ |
12 | The monopoly of command — in his house , in his business , in his factory — was crucial to his self-definition , and its formal assertion , whether nominal or real , is an essential element in all industrial disputes of the period : ‘ But I am also the Director of the Mines , that is to say the head [ chef ] of a large population of workers … |
13 | I am also the Electrical and Engineering Staff Association union representative for the North . |
14 | While I am away the Fathers of the Priory are very kindly looking after things for me , so please refer any crises to them ( telephone : 2149 ) . |
15 | I am probably the only person around who is enthusiastic about At Play in the Fields of the Lord . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | As my knitting acquaintances will tell you , I am neither the shape nor the age for a mini dress ! |
18 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
19 | It seems to me that I am exactly the sort of person that you need , that you should cultivate me , prime me , pay me , even . |
20 | I am without the sense of purpose that woke me so early . |
21 | But here I am without the distracting offspring and driving , or attempting to do so , with care and concentration . |
22 | Yes , I expect you do , said Lucy , a tiny precise voice in her ear , but I am not the one to help you . |
23 | And I am not the only woman who wants a fulfilling working life and domesticity as well . |
24 | I am not the kind of person to be treated seriously , in Bob 's jargon . |
25 | I am not the only person left in the world . |
26 | And if on your coming to England I am not the first person you look for , I shall be very hurt indeed ! |
27 | ‘ I am not the type of manager to go in and say right , I 'll take this and create it into something else . |
28 | I am not the master of tack and I always say what I think . |
29 | ‘ I am not the only one to have seen Charlotte , ’ Emily went on as though nothing had happened . |
30 | there I am not the same I am not kidding . |