Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I was the mature woman , faced with new kids in the workplace . |
| 2 | Naturally I was the slowest , having the most to remove . |
| 3 | Perhaps I 'm the first woman who has asked for their vote . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps I 'm the wrong one to ask about that . ’ |
| 5 | Well I mean obviously I 'm the obvious alternative is er financial planning |
| 6 | For a start , Christopher 's taller than I am so I was the fluffy one … . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe not but I think both you and Len might benefit by talking about what happened that morning ; after all , apparently you were the only one who actually saw him fall . |
| 8 | Perhaps she was the only one who had got away ? |
| 9 | And , as consolation Marje , you really can hang on to the hope that as he was the secret true love of your life , perhaps you were the secret true love of his . |
| 10 | So she 's the official carnival queen . |
| 11 | So you 're the right person to ask the |
| 12 | So you 're the big boss are you ? |
| 13 | Yeah because you go to be the eldest and then just at the time you should of gone on and become the youngest , it changed so you were the eldest all the time |
| 14 | PERHAPS we are the only definable group , except for the landladies , who look forward to conference at all , conference and elections being the only points in the calendar when our lives become primed with meaning . |
| 15 | So we 're the first to have them after them gaining number one . |
| 16 | So we are the only Committee who are saving the , that 's taking our budget globally as , I think , I think it 's four point eight percent , if you want to be pedantic about it , but we are planning and that 's the only ones , if you take that mode of view , and if we took , if we took training out |
| 17 | So we were the first to have them after they get number one . |
| 18 | Apparently they are the worst floods we have had in Suffolk since 1954 . |
| 19 | Mr. Graham : Perhaps they are the professional advisers who advised the Government to sell the royal ordnance factory in my constituency for a pittance to people who later recouped the price in one sale . |
| 20 | Perhaps they were the last days before the final eclipse . |
| 21 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 22 | So they 're the first up with the Christmas tree decorations each year . |
| 23 | Together they were the necessary and sufficient conditions for the surge in bank loans to the developing countries in the 1970s , and together they provide much of the explanation for the reverse flow of funds , from South to North , that followed in the 1980s ( see figure 1.3 ) . |
| 24 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 25 | Although this trio again blended well together it was the tremendous ability of McClure which sealed the ticket to Ayr . |
| 26 | Suddenly it was the Chinese , not the foreigners , who were pressing for a deal . |
| 27 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 28 | Through the creative agency of his Word and his Spirit God is the author and giver of faith ; naturally he is the prime resolver of doubt . |
| 29 | The funeral cars and hearse have blue flashing lights on the roof , very similar to a policecar , when I enquired as to the reason for this , apparently it 's the only way they can get around the island for the traffic and the laid-back attitude of the locals . |
| 30 | It 's worth reminding readers who are parents of this with the start of the school holidays next month — apparently it 's the prime time for solvent abuse . |