Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I that boring Frank ? |
| 2 | I tell you , colleagues , am I glad that meeting was before this Congress . |
| 3 | ‘ These are my asparagus , my fraises de bois , cauliflowers , horse-radish , my lettuces and beets , carrots , leeks , peas , squash , string-beans … these are my dear little peonies , these are my perennial beds . ’ |
| 4 | I love all dogs but , to be fair , Bull Terriers are my first real love . |
| 5 | To help you here are my five best tips to living with imperfect software : |
| 6 | ‘ You are my two favourite people , ’ he would fling out , gratitude mingling with resentment . |
| 7 | The letter concludes , ‘ You are my only real Father Confessor . ’ |
| 8 | Those are my only remaining memories of the first five years . |
| 9 | Being a historical review , I shall deal primarily with facts ; however , on some occasions I shall be expressing opinions and I must make it clear from the beginning that these are my own personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the MOD . |
| 10 | It had been my first alpine climb , and it had been an eye-opener . |
| 11 | You would have been my second disastrous marriage . |
| 12 | Tea with a fish breakfast or coffee with beefsteaks have never been my own great favourites in the game of what to drink with what . |
| 13 | ‘ I think the things I 've been most pleased with have been my excellent second-hand buys . |
| 14 | But they might ponder whether such sentiments are more in line with the German and Japanese approaches that will probably dominate the 1990s rather than are their traditional capitalist values that have dominated the 1980s . |
| 15 | Uralmash 's faith in foreign joint ventures highlights the fundamental weakness of Russia 's industrial dinosaurs : foreign partners are their only likely source of new capital ; and they are the best source of new designs and technology . |
| 16 | The current television contracts are their largest single source of revenue , guaranteeing each of them , big or small , $14.4m a year . |
| 17 | The men are their usual uninspiring selves . |
| 18 | Wasters , as old Sam once said , ‘ are their own worst enemies , though they are generally found amongst the ranks of those who rail at the injustices of the world . ’ |
| 19 | It is sometimes easy to deride work in artificial intelligence — and some researchers are their own worst enemies when it comes to persuading people to back their efforts — but there is every sign that advances in this discipline will play a large part in the kind of machines that tomorrow 's computer users will buy . |
| 20 | Players can be real snobs about names , too , so they are their own worst enemies . |
| 21 | Well are you suggesting that the gipsies are their own worst enemies when it comes to advertising their cause . |
| 22 | Hereford are their own worst enemy at the moment … 2-0 to Gillingham |
| 23 | Other products it hopes to push are its X400-based electronic mail systems for Windows , and , more peculiarly , it is intent on becoming a big player in the commodity world of local network adaptor boards — from its parent , Fujitsu Ltd . |
| 24 | A discipline , if you like , abstracts and selects from the totality of the world those features that are its own special province . |
| 25 | Vanished are her healthy pink cheeks , her slightly red winter nose , her mole , her little freckles and blemishes : she is smooth , new made . |
| 26 | I can not profess to know how successful , or otherwise , the mystic 's attempts at transcendence may prove , but I do know that all the anorexic is capable of transcending are her own immediate difficulties and that , in most cases , this achievement is comparatively short-lived . |
| 27 | The gang had been their usual high-spirited selves , they had joked about a bit , had some fun . |
| 28 | What has been their probable evolutionary course ? |
| 29 | For too many years , British tennis clubs have been their own worst enemies … mismanaged , misused and ( not entirely their own fault ) , misguided . |
| 30 | However , at times farmers have been their own worst enemies . |