Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books are me most prized possessions , ye ken . |
| 2 | Are yours fairly elaborate ones that you have ? |
| 3 | Holding her doll tightly , She-Who-Is-Alone said quietly , ‘ You are my most valued possession . |
| 4 | My eyes are my most beloved possession — Take away not my eyes , if everything else crumbles to nothingness , The eyes are not only the windows of the soul but in them reflect the beauty of life . |
| 5 | Smiling mirthlessly , he admitted , ‘ Despite your romantic soul , you are my most reluctant guest so far . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ David Mellor and his family have been coming to my restaurant for 18 years and they are my very good friends , ’ says Moziruddin . |
| 7 | It is important to stress that the photographs in this book are my highly subjective vision of skinheads . |
| 8 | I remembered George Crowninshield very well , for he and his wife had been my very first clients on board Wavebreaker and I had been nervous , not just at the prospect of a new job , but because of the client 's eminence . |
| 9 | New brands , of course , will keep coming our way : there are plenty more classic labels from middle-of-nowhere towns out there , each with their own distinctive symbol . |
| 10 | For those to whom this type of style and experience are their most important consideration we have collected the very best of the very best — our Golden Choice . |
| 11 | Among the distinctive features of the colleges are their highly selective nature and their specialisation , with about 50 per cent of the timetable devoted to maths , science and technology and the remaining 50 per cent of the time occupied by subjects found in the usual school curriculum , including art , music and drama . |
| 12 | Their teachers are their more experienced colleagues who 've been through it all themselves . |
| 13 | Among its chief attributes are its pleasingly creamy colour , its smoothness and coolness to the touch , its fine grain and the comparative ease with which it can be wrought to a variety of precise shapes using such elementary techniques as sawing , rubbing , polishing and perforating . |
| 14 | The staff of a school are its most important resource and their commitment to decisions made is likely to be of major significance in ensuring effective implementation . |
| 15 | But Norwich took them on and revealed a tactical superiority and strength of character to go alongside the flair that has always been their most endearing feature . |
| 16 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 17 | The Dawn of Dreams had not been her most glamorous role — to play the central role of a disturbed adolescent Jo had gained 20lb and spent hours creating the greyish , pasty complexion of a kid raised in institutions . |
| 18 | Her hair , which had always been her most attractive feature , was now lined with grey , and she had given up dying it black . |
| 19 | But that I must try and look at it like this : that Mama had been her very special baby — and so had I. So that could never be the same again . |
| 20 | Fosse believe that the Advantage system is the first such system to be designed specifically for tennis and says that it has been its most successful introduction into the game with over 200 installations in the last four years . |
| 21 | Lord Scarman has been its most enthusiastic advocate , urging that English media law should be interpreted , as far as possible , in conformity with Article 10 : " If the issue should ultimately be a question of legal policy , we must have regard to the country 's international obligation to observe the European Convention as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights " . |
| 22 | He knew that the licence which had pervaded Nogai 's court had been its least attractive feature . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you still convinced Joseph killed Sabine Jourdain ? ’ |
| 24 | And I think the , the erm , the jobs which are elected are the Chair Person and , do we still have a Vice Chair Person ? are you still Vice Chair Person ? |
| 25 | Was it going to be the You Are Cold and Unfeeling Row , the Why Are You So Feeble Row , the Fat Row , the Racist Row , the Right-Wing how , the Left-Wing Row , the Merits of Jane Austen Row , the Driving Row , the Looking After Maisie Row or the Why Are You so Bitter and Twisted Row . |
| 26 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 27 | On the other hand , there has been one almost universal factor behind the emergence of the extreme right . |
| 28 | Are we still investigatory stage , or have we taken a policy decision that we will purchase this ground ? unclear at the moment , is n't it ? |
| 29 | The first priority for most unemployed people is obtaining a job : and training or retraining courses are one seemingly obvious route to this end . |
| 30 | Teacher : Are there more thin ones ? |