Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 2 | Among them are the four remaining pictures shown by Betty Parsons , whose checklist notes seventeen works , the complete set of five White Paintings conceived in 1951 and recreated , under Rauschenberg 's instructions , by Brice Marden in 1968 , twelve Black Paintings , three gold leaf paintings , fifteen collages created in Rome and North Africa in the last months of 1952 , and thirteen box sculptures incorporating stones , thorns , an insect and other material . |
| 3 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 4 | You will find that I am the one person you can always trust . |
| 5 | I am the one person you can trust around here . |
| 6 | I 'm the one obstacle in their way . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm the one person who can step on board without reprisal . |
| 8 | I know , and I 'm the one hundredth and seventh person to do it |
| 9 | Cos I 'm the 1234 Dinner Lady ! |
| 10 | I was the one black kid in all the school and school teachers around here have got their set ways . |
| 11 | There you are the two little stone set er one 's a stone set dress ring , and the other gold er dress ring . |
| 12 | Cecil , as I am now apt to cheekily address him , has an extremely clever knack of making you believe you are the one journalist he can really trust . |
| 13 | You are the one woman I have always wanted . |
| 14 | ‘ So you 're the eight twelves . ’ |
| 15 | But you , Jesus , you 're the one God made . ’ |
| 16 | That 's what 's so engaging about you but of course you 're the one person who ca n't see that . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're the one man in the world who s–ould know my secret . |
| 18 | Oh aye , it would be more than that because you 're the twenty second of February |
| 19 | ‘ If the Prince of Wales does not succeed she 's the one person people would feel would be acceptable . |
| 20 | I 've always excused myself-I 've said , I 'm kind and tolerant with everyone else , she 's the one person I ca n't be like that with , and there has to be an exception to the general rule . |
| 21 | She 's the fifties or sixties generation , and then it was all slimness , tight dresses . |
| 22 | She is the one hundredth thousand person to take part in the project which sends teachers out of the classroom and into industry . |
| 23 | She was the one constant thing in the past weeks of the fever that had swirled round him like a parching desert duststorm . |
| 24 | The gathers over the bosom made her look as though she was the one breast-feeding . |
| 25 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
| 26 | It stuck in his mind because she was the one person who , of course , had n't mentioned the snow , hadn't. even noticed it because of being stuck in ‘ that gloomy hole ’ as she put it herself , day in , day out , and that evil husband of hers never there , net ; er ! |
| 27 | She was the one person I really trusted but I felt she had lied and betrayed me . |
| 28 | She was the one person I told . |
| 29 | We are the four horsemen , er , SIX horsemen of the Apocalypse , and we bring you … the final issue of ZZAP ! 64 . |
| 30 | There we are the two dress rings . |