Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week I read an article about four successful divorce solicitors , two of whom are representing the Yorks in their divorce . |
| 2 | Jones is second … a russian third … and then there 's a procession of local runners some of whom are feeling the pace … |
| 3 | The difference between you and most other women is that not many of them are granted the opportunity to actually indulge their nostalgia , save mentally . |
| 4 | In today 's Washington , where ideology is a murmur of distant guns but technocrats have not quite recovered their old authority , the think-tanks seem at a loss ; many of them are cutting the size of their staffs . |
| 5 | So those who try to dismiss Jesus as being a good teacher , a religious leader , a prophet and no more — all of them are missing the truth . |
| 6 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 7 | Time , right , I am moving the amendment the reference back and I 'm handing those papers to the Chief Executive and I 'm gon na ask the Chief Executive to get someone independent to do this because you ca n't get away from the numbers that the numbers I 've get someone independent I 'll ask for that . |
| 8 | Personally , I am hoping the trip will also provide me with an insight into relief and development work as I pray about my future . |
| 9 | I am hoping the atmosphere will lift tired legs . ’ |
| 10 | And if you will be good enough to let me go on , you will see how I am monitoring the environment of the infant in order to see precisely what effect it has . |
| 11 | ‘ I am enumerating the items that could stand against you should the will be contested , ’ said Mr Aycliffe patiently . |
| 12 | I am borrowing the conclusions and applying them to beavers , because beavers are more interesting and congenial to many people than worms . |
| 13 | Peter Cole , chairman of Bramshill Parish Council , in whose bailiwick the town would have fallen , said : ‘ I might have an extra beer today , but I am saving the champagne for another 21 days . |
| 14 | I have a battle to win and would ask only that I am given the chance to do so without intrusion in my private life . |
| 15 | The piece starts quite confidently as a " narrative with an elaborated setting " ( I am using the terminology of Labov and Waletsky , 1967 ) . |
| 16 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 17 | In the remainder of the discussion in this paper I am using the term ‘ psychic ’ in these senses , although it may seem , at times , in the descriptions of psychic phenomena that these processes are static and fixed . |
| 18 | But pragmatism , as I am using the term here , is a function of pedagogic mediation whereby the relationship between theory and practice , ideas and their actualization , can only be realized within the domain of application , that is , through the immediate activity of teaching . |
| 19 | The crucial difference between economic growth and development , as I am using the term here , is that development may include everything that is already included in economic growth plus criteria of distribution of the social product and democratic politics . |
| 20 | And I am going into the light and I am going into time , and if I am to save the world , then I shall have served the world , and if I do not save the world , then at least I shall have tried . |
| 21 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 22 | I am assuming the £6M will be raised if we carry on in 1988 as we did in 1987 , improving distribution of course and encouraging people but doing nothing to undermine what individuals , churches and committees do already . |
| 23 | Instead we are now saying , ‘ I know this diet and exercise plan is working for me ’ , ‘ this time I am going to reach my weight and inch goal ’ , ‘ because I never feel hungry and I am eating the foods I enjoy , I do n't even feel as though I 'm dieting ’ . |
| 24 | The reason why I consulted my brief was because I am to visit the Young Vic shortly and I was not certain whether the hon. Gentleman would appear on the stage or in the audience on that occasion . |
| 25 | ‘ While I am pursuing the offender I do not want blood on the streets . ’ |
| 26 | However , I am getting the business matters straightened out and I hope it wo n't be too long before I shall have more time to spend with you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am getting the strength in depth that I need , ’ added Perkins . |
| 28 | I am telling the truth . |
| 29 | Just in recent weeks we have had public reports of a cardiologist who has had to turn seriously ill patients away because of the budget system — I am telling the truth about the health — |
| 30 | I am telling the police , of course , but nothing happen , they do n't arrest nobody . |