Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads . |
| 10 | ‘ How do you know I am the only one they targeted ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 14 | How do we know they 're the proper people to have sight of these — documents ? |
| 15 | People say they were the good old days , but oh I do n't think . |
| 16 | You wo n't know it 's the real thing unless you ( and she ) still feel the same in , oh , a year or so at least ; that 's the only way to prove you are n't living a dragonfly mistake . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't know about that , but I do know it 's the only good look I 'm going to get for months so I 'm making the most of it . ’ |
| 18 | The only sign that anyone had ever occupied it was the flattened grass beneath the tree , where her blanket had been . |
| 19 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 20 | Its admirers say it is the consummate manager . |
| 21 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 22 | They say it 's the final straw in a two month saga of staff sickness and lack of supply teachers which has meant vital gaps in their children 's schooling . |
| 23 | They say it 's the only way to save nearly forty jobs . |
| 24 | But others say it 's the only way to avoid accusations of a whitewash . |
| 25 | Student leaders say it 's the only way they can fight for their rights . |
| 26 | Shock tactics.Parents of drink-drive victim say it 's the only way . |
| 27 | It 'll cost a hundred and forty thousand pounds to build but some locals say it 's the wrong bridge in the wrong place |
| 28 | They say it 's the wrong place and will pose a threat to their children . |
| 29 | The lessons are proving very popular , especially with business men and women who say it 's the ideal way to relieve tension after a hard day in the office . |
| 30 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |