Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Among them are a Russian Jew , who fled his native land after avenging the murder of his father , and the son of a poor Italian farmer .
2 So do n't forget the one thousand who do n't think any of them are a good team , add all those up and that will give you a fourth equation .
3 Revisited ’ has only got about 15 minutes of decent songs — and eight of them are a live version of The Velvet Underground 's ‘ What Goes On ? ’ which is n't psychedelic at all , really .
4 and course with that Ron on the , of course you know , he tells jokes and some of them are a little bit crude , but , they take all in good part , you know , I said to dad I said you do n't always , he 's that dry
5 Mark Calcavecchia and I are a good team ; we can relax with each other — that 's the key . "
6 PAMELA : Why , Mrs. Jewkes , there can be only one reason , which is that I am a sad fool !
7 I mean I am a mere officer who advises the Council , Bill , as you know .
8 ‘ You must not imagine that I am a pure woman .
9 I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it .
10 SIR — I am a former pupil of Summerhill School at Leiston , Suffolk ( television review , March 31 ) .
11 I am a logical man , Mr. Gerrard , accustomed to presenting material in a concise , ordered and intelligible manner .
12 I am a working mother but the children rarely see me working .
13 I am a strange mixture of appearing to be a pleasant guy but behind it all I am pretty hard and often grumpy .
14 I am a poor widow .
15 I am a poor widow .
16 I am a poor widow .
17 I am a poor widow ,
18 I am a poor orphan boy .
19 I am a poor Indian .
20 I am a poor scholar .
21 Dr Jaffery frowned : ‘ I am a simple man .
22 ‘ We shall walk barefoot and dusty and alone and suffer many things , and within our sufferings we shall find the pearl of great price , the untarnished joy , the secret treasure , and we shall find it because he is a pure saint and the bravest man in the world and I am a simple singer robed in humility , one risen from the dead ’
23 He says : ‘ I am a simple guy .
24 I am a firm believer in extending higher education and in preserving the humanities , by all possible means , against technologico-Benthamite attacks .
25 ‘ It is a relatively new technique and a lot of people have been sceptical about it but I am a firm believer in the method , ’ he said .
26 I am a firm lover of simple meat dishes — my all-time favourite is garlic lamb .
27 I am a veritable doubting Thomas about the industry 's claim that if Sizewell B goes ahead , there will be significant benefits in the long term from an increase in the British share of the world market for PWR related products and services .
28 It is a good thing that I am a reasonable man .
29 Ibrox , I am a liberal man .
30 Mind you , travel was very much an academic thing for me until the television programme and even now I can scarcely say I am a travelled person .
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