Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hey , do n't tell me I 'm the first to arrive ? ’ |
| 2 | She told me I was the only person she could trust , though I often saw her around with other people , misplaced people , I suppose . |
| 3 | ‘ When I did get back she had a very strange and dangerous problem which she dumped in my lap , assured me I was the only man she could trust to handle it . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd tell me I was the nicest woman he 'd ever been with . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And in fact er one My brother next to n to me I was the middle of them I was the youngest boy . |
| 7 | Of course although we 're talking about dying and nobody wants to think about dying let's remind ourselves it 's the only certainty in this life . |
| 8 | I was the head of the ‘ Linguistics Section ’ of the Department , and in 1974 this became the ‘ Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language ’ , of which I was the first head . |
| 9 | You may only activate DCs for which you are the associated user . |
| 10 | I enclose for your attention a copy of the recently issued opinion in the above case which was heard in the High Court of Justiciary Appeal Court on and in which you were the sentencing Judge/Sheriff . |
| 11 | He was only eleven when Mrs Thatcher came to power ; he now runs an organization of which she is the honorary president . |
| 12 | Purvis is in the 100m and 200m butterfly with the latter , for which she is the British record holder , being her best chance of booking a place in her second Olympic team . |
| 13 | It was difficult to know whether she had understood everything he had tried to explain to her about his being involved in a case in which she was the chief witness , about his career , and how he had a mother and sister to support . |
| 14 | At the end of that time she had learned that Amy was married to an Anglican priest and felt herself trapped and manipulated in a relationship in which she was the inferior partner . |
| 15 | I commend them , and the area over which they preside , to adventurers and explorers of all ages , and especially to sufferers from urban depression for which they are the perfect tonic . |
| 16 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 17 | In arrangements of types B and D , the squares contribute to arrangements of which they are the diagnostic features , if not the theme . |
| 18 | The great task , for someone such as Cis , was to make of her own house — a three-bedroom semi-detached in which they were the first occupiers — a place of comfort and gleaming triumph against the odds . |
| 19 | They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer . |
| 20 | In the ten ‘ three-way ’ marginals — in which they were the main challengers just ahead of Labour — Labour won one ( Cambridge ) and pushed them into third place in another seven . |
| 21 | And more positively , he found in mysticism , besides metaphysical delusions , which he is the first to castigate , yet an affirmation of the possibility of universal love and joy which is the apex of human achievement . |
| 22 | As the authorities which I have cited demonstrate , the visitor is applying not the general law of the land but a peculiar , domestic law of which he is the sole arbiter and of which the courts have no cognisance . |
| 23 | GILBERT MANT concludes his inside story of the stormy 1932–33 Test series , form which he is the sole survivor among the journalists who covered the tour |
| 24 | The 1929 graduate added $25 million to the endowment of the Yale Center for British Art , of which he is the founding benefactor . |
| 25 | CD began writing up his travels for the Daily News , of which he was the first editor , and 8 ‘ Travelling Letters ’ appeared there between 21 Jan. and 11 Mar. 1846 , ending with the section entitled ‘ Piacenza to Bologna ’ in the book ; the ‘ Travelling Letters ’ were revised , and the remaining sections written for its publication as Pictures from Italy in May 1846 ( Bradbury & Evans , 1 vol . ) . |
| 26 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 27 | At Cambridge his research centred around the embryology , anatomy , and taxonomy of Polyzoa and Cephalodiscus , for which he was the first of the Cambridge zoologists to use the binocular microscope . |
| 28 | The second is that it is in relation to this period that one finds a quite separate account of the origins of the Muftilik advanced , namely Katib Celebi 's view that the office originated not with Molla Fenari in Bursa or Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne but rather with Hizir Bey in Istanbul , the Muftilik being for his tenure , and for some time alter , a to the post of kadi of Istanbul , of which he was the first holder . |
| 29 | We worked together to form the committee for the release of Soviet Jewry , of which he was the first secretary and I the first chairman . |
| 30 | In retirement he resumed an earlier active interest as trustee of the Institute of Economic Affairs , of which he was the largest single ( albeit anonymous ) benefactor . |