Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Encouraging them were the new links between British and American film companies that grew out of the quota legislation . |
| 2 | As it happens , I do n't think I 'm the right person to lead humanity into the future , no . |
| 3 | I do n't think I 'm the only volunteer who 's ashamed of their early attitude to AIDS and I 'm only glad that we had the sense , collectively , to listen to reason before the calls began . |
| 4 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |
| 5 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |
| 6 | To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help . |
| 7 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 8 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 9 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 10 | I love to go out dancing but you wo n't catch me being the first on the dance floor ! |
| 11 | Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads . |
| 12 | ‘ How do you know I am the only one they targeted ? |
| 13 | When you awaken in the morning hush I am the uplifting rush Of quiet birds encircled flight I am the soft stars that shine at night . |
| 14 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 15 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 16 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 17 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 18 | " Do n't you know which is the right one yet ? " |
| 19 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ she said , ‘ but would you know which is the nearest big police station in this area ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know which is the madder , ’ Cranston muttered , ‘ the bear or Red Hand ! ’ |
| 21 | It is particularly useful when you want to know the difference between 2 values , but you do n't know which is the larger . |
| 22 | I still do n't know do n't know which is the top grill the oven the top oven the bottom oven . |
| 23 | I have not yet been given any reason for our lack of success on this occasion , and I do not yet know which were the successful applicants . |
| 24 | This method represents the following dose , 8 tablespoons = ( 160ml ) = ⅛ granule/tablespoon ( 20ml ) diluted x 10 = per 20ml so a 5ml dose = granule which is the weakest dose Hahnemann recommends but takes the patient only 8–10 days to finish and be ready for the next potency up . |
| 25 | It is useful to know which is the likely response to your committed attack and that is one way of finding out . |
| 26 | They could be asked to guess which was the earliest , and to give reasons for their choice . |
| 27 | That would be the only way to establish which was the shortest . |
| 28 | It is not possible , using this technique , to discover which is the semantic head in the highest construction in a simple sentence , that is to say , the subject-predicate construction . |
| 29 | Use a little star to indicate which is the asymmetric centre which kiral centre and all it means is that if you were to dra , if you had a a kiral molecule in other words , it had four different groups attached to it what it means is that it and it 's mirror image , this is the way you actually draw it and answer the questions you draw you draw it as if there was a mirror image . |
| 30 | I do know she was the subtlest of nags . |