Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am also the Great White Spirit that resides in the fifth dimension , everything is connected to my fingertips — by wires . ’ |
| 4 | I am also the Electrical and Engineering Staff Association union representative for the North . |
| 5 | I am probably the only person around who is enthusiastic about At Play in the Fields of the Lord . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 8 | But here I am without the distracting offspring and driving , or attempting to do so , with care and concentration . |
| 9 | And I am not the only woman who wants a fulfilling working life and domesticity as well . |
| 10 | I am not the only person left in the world . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not the only one to have seen Charlotte , ’ Emily went on as though nothing had happened . |
| 12 | I am not the only person who has had a tumultuous year , and I am immensley proud of the way the British face their problems and so often succeed despite them . |
| 13 | I bet I am not the only stay-away . |
| 14 | And I am sure I am not the only one here who has found himself out of his depth in a conversation , yet has managed to keep his end up by repeating what other people are saying . |
| 15 | I am not the only one criticising local government inspection . |
| 16 | I suspect that I am not the only hon. Member in the Chamber with a sense of de ja vu when we debate European affairs . |
| 17 | I AM sure I am not the only woman who wept in sympathy , shame and anger at the outrage done to the people of Warrington . |
| 18 | I am not the only one searching for these papers , there is a rival publisher . |
| 19 | And if on your coming to England I am not the first person you look for , I shall be very hurt indeed ! |
| 20 | I am not the first to suspect that the inhabitants of Massalia spent their money to ransom themselves from Catumarandus rather than the Romans from Brennus . |
| 21 | I am not the first one to have criticised this side of the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 22 | My feeling ( although I am not the best judge ) was that the Workshop was a complete success in that it involved the participants in exploring the intellectual bases of their subject , and led them from there to the practical rethinking of their teaching methods and curricula . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not the slightest bit embarrassed by my holiday arrangements , ’ Mellor had told a reporter from the People . |
| 24 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 25 | there I am not the same I am not kidding . |
| 26 | I am not the same as I was before . |
| 27 | So I am now the only one in the entire family without a job in the real sense . |
| 28 | She died in 1952 and I am now the only one of the family left alive . |
| 29 | Lo and behold , after further meetings , I am now the proud owner of a ‘ grant ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course I am only the humble second wife . |