Example sentences of "[pron] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 2 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 3 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 4 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 5 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 6 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 7 | Not all of them are the high mileage though are they ? |
| 8 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
| 10 | I am the sole survivor of my family . |
| 11 | I am the sole author of this book , although Monsieur Francois Bergot has agreed to write the introduction . |
| 12 | Moderator I present the report , and must ask the clerk to move the deliverance as I am the corresponding member . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm Ron Barton and I 'll have you know that I am the Roving Correspondent of the True Brit , the newspaper with an even bigger circulation than the Sun , and I never laid a finger on , or up , the lady . |
| 14 | The big spender asks if I am the new man . |
| 15 | ‘ I am the right side of the Consul-General 's brain . |
| 16 | ‘ I am the Official Dog Chaser — it 's my responsibility . |
| 17 | ‘ I am the chief Magistrate ’ , quietly responded Mr. Butler . |
| 18 | I am the proud owner of a Series III Lightweight . |
| 19 | I am the proud owner of a 1988 Land Rover 2.5 Turbo Diesel . |
| 20 | I am the proud owner of a One Ten County 1989 model . |
| 21 | I am the ultimate source of meaning of all " existential facts " ; all such facts , in the final analysis , turn out to be explicable in terms of facts about my own existence . |
| 22 | You see , I 've had a few quite long relationships before but , although I think the world of this young lady and love her deeply , I do n't feel that I am the marrying kind . |
| 23 | Waller was argumentative , opinionated , and sometimes outspoken , but he had a sense of humour ( ‘ I am the Wallerian degeneration ’ in reference to his father 's eponymous discovery ) and he retained an unworldly delight in science throughout his life . |
| 24 | I am the political equivalent of curry . |
| 25 | ‘ I am the good shepherd , ’ he replied , ‘ not the hireling . |
| 26 | Yo you see , I I am , I am the eternal optimist , I think he came back and stayed . |
| 27 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 28 | I am the living Brian Jessel , a reserved man who is devoted to his family , with , yes , certainly , something of an interest in music . |
| 29 | And I am the legitimate heir . ’ |
| 30 | I am the worrying sort . |