Example sentences of "[pron] be [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps in another month or so I will find I am one among 50 runners for the job . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am nothing without this little flat . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm nothing at all to you except an unwelcome visitor . ’ |
| 4 | Well , I 'm none of those things ! |
| 5 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 6 | Because they 're a private school , they can take anybody they like — which is me in this case . ’ |
| 7 | Ideally it needs a brackish paludarium , which is something for another article . |
| 8 | I came across the expected pitch ’ below the wedged boulders , which Wainwright describes as ‘ The one difficulty , above which is nothing but simple scrambling to the top . ’ |
| 9 | Which is nothing at all to do with that . |
| 10 | The narrator took up a position to one side of the loudspeaker , and the listeners were challenged to guess which was which as alternate lines were delivered . |
| 11 | Keswick ; ore which was his by ancient right . |
| 12 | It looked just like the picture of Gullible or whoever he was , except the nomes had got hold of what the nomes in those days had never heard of , which was lots of electric wire . |
| 13 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 14 | Women who are themselves in professional jobs ( class I ) have lower fertility than women with jobs in class II , whereas the wives of men in social class I have higher fertility than the wives of men in social class II . |
| 15 | No Jean , you ai n't got ta say who you are nothing like that bye ! |
| 16 | The likeliest thing to happen is that you leg it because , in a hullabaloo , you are one against two … |
| 17 | Are you are you at three thirty ? |
| 18 | Come on then , there , I ca n't reach , come on then , that 's a good boy there you are you like that ? |
| 19 | I I mean , you 're anything like that , but not not for a month , I mean . |
| 20 | Or half a can of paraffin , if you 're anything like most of the scouts I 've met . |
| 21 | ‘ Who were they at that stage ? ’ |
| 22 | This applied both to parents of young children who were themselves in emotional or material crises , and to parents in conflict with their older children about their behaviour . |
| 23 | Now how long were you were you at this er camp before you ? |
| 24 | Sixty five burst out Art , I did n't think you were anything near that anywhere near that age . |
| 25 | She 's nothing at all as I imagined . ’ |
| 26 | Do I ever know who 's whose in these this house here ? |
| 27 | From Seles down , the list of competitors reads like a who 's who of international tennis players . |
| 28 | In fact , it really is a who 's who of international canoe touring . |
| 29 | Her parts often require her to be prim and snooty but she says she is nothing like that in reality . |
| 30 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |