Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Samuel at Park City , Utah , on the opening races of the new season Cannons put smile on Willi 's Face ‘ T HIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains . |
| 2 | ‘ Not yet ’ , was the reply : ‘ At present I am the Member of Parliament for Henley ’ ! ’ |
| 3 | Whenever the papers wanted a quote they came to me , when the local radio wanted an interview I was the spokesperson . |
| 4 | You do know how much emotion you are the cause of back there , do n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |
| 6 | Richard you are the lion and you , Arthur , you are a Canadian Mounted Policeman and when the lion threatens to throw the baby into the volcano , you will come galloping up on that hobby horse — that one there , the one with bells — and rescue him . ’ |
| 7 | In essence they are the group 's instruction manual , or practice notes as our architectural mem er colleagues prefer to call them . |
| 8 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 9 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the great-grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 10 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was the crown 's desire to spend , and Parliament 's desire to limit the tax burden , which led to regular conflicts between the king and Parliament . |
| 11 | For the conservative-historians it was the Profumo affair that most forcefully illustrated the altered circumstances that 1960s Britain found itself in . |
| 12 | Like many so-called archaic methods it was the result of long adaption of means to ends ; like many supposed pockets of peasant routine the Basque system could adapt itself to new demands . |
| 13 | At Bourn it was the custom to do three night duties in a row and then be off to Cambridge the next day without bothering to go to bed . |
| 14 | In three quarters of the job losses it was the role of the factory which was important rather than its operation or location . |
| 15 | During the passage of gravitational waves it is the structure of space–time itself which oscillates . |
| 16 | The 70th was raised in Surrey in 1756 and as a result it was the junior of the two regiments . |
| 17 | Seen by romantic eyes it is the epitome of the nobility of nature , but what is the truth of the situation ? |
| 18 | If the security forces are thick on the ground and loyalist gunmen commit murder it is the result of collusion . |
| 19 | In the early days of the development of anthropology it was the fashion to place culture on an evolutionary ladder ranging from primitive to developed . |
| 20 | The theory is that only the maternal chromosomes permit a viable egg to develop in the hybrid ; in the mule this is the horse set , while in the hinny it is the donkey . |
| 21 | If it 's not First Aid it 's the Knitting Socks for Icelandic Seamen Club . ’ |
| 22 | In many respects he was the archetype of the ‘ patriots ’ and ‘ public men ’ who played a crucial political role as spokesmen for their localities and ‘ the country ’ in the years preceding the civil war . |
| 23 | Convinced , like the even more outspoken Gustave Le Bon , that ‘ Out of a hundred Hindus educated in English schools , there are a hundred who are irreconcilable enemies of British power ’ and that the export of democratic institutions would simply be a form of national suicide , for Harmand it was the lesson of Santo Domingo that counted : the Caribbean negro slave revolt of 1795 which , ten years later , led to the surrender of a French army . |
| 24 | In Newport it was the Licensing Act of 1921 that brought about this decision , but in other places it was India , or Ireland , or public spending . |
| 25 | According to the gossip he was the Scapegoat in the Wheel on Saturday night . |
| 26 | But in practice it is the divergence indicator which often triggers intervention because it is designed to serve as an early warning device for when strong or weak currencies look likely to test their parity limits . |
| 27 | In professional practice it is the duty of the advocate to call the attention of the court to all decisions that are in any way against the submissions he makes ; but this may not be possible in moot conditions . |
| 28 | When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command . |
| 29 | Erm , in other words it 's the kind of thing that you would automatically remember in situ . |
| 30 | In other words it is the willingness of people to follow that makes a person a leader ’ ( Koontz , O'Donnell , Weihrich ) . |