Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the Official Dog Chaser — it 's my responsibility . |
| 2 | I , La Carlotta , I am the best opera singer in Paris . |
| 3 | I am the sunlight on ripened grain I am the gentle autumn rain . |
| 4 | I am the living Brian Jessel , a reserved man who is devoted to his family , with , yes , certainly , something of an interest in music . |
| 5 | I am the Special Projects Officer . |
| 6 | This training covers independence , consent , confidentiality , and inhuman treatment , and the importance of total independence and objectivity is accepted and encouraged by the Greater Manchester Police Force , for whom I am the senior police surgeon . |
| 7 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 8 | Mr McTear , 48 , claims that he would not have started smoking in the mid-1960s had there been the present-day health warnings . |
| 9 | This has been the unwavering government line since , even after the murder of a 66-ear-old disabled woman by a private care agency worker 16 months ago . |
| 10 | Labour Minister , Lee Kim Sai of the Malaysian Chinese Association ( MCA ) who was moved to Housing and Local Government , was replaced by Lim Ah Lek , who had been the victorious MCA candidate in the recent Bentong by-election [ see below ] . |
| 11 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 12 | The Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea has been the primary stumbling block . |
| 13 | For nearly forty years they formed what seems to have been the perfect working partnership , each attending to that part of the business to which their very different characters suited them best . |
| 14 | A crucial factor had been the tighter safety regime introduced by the regulatory authorities following first , the notorious 1975 fire at the Brown 's Ferry plant , and then the 1979 Three Mile Island accident . |
| 15 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 16 | His first choice for composer had been the imperial court composer Salieri , who for complicated reasons was obliged to decline the offer . |
| 17 | CorelDRAW has been the best-selling PC drawing package for the past couple of years . |
| 18 | One of the pilots had been the ace Al Deere . |
| 19 | In the Academy , he was a pupil of John Graham who had been the famous artist David Wilkie 's teacher . |
| 20 | The only exception has been the rear access door that covers the Parallel and Serial Ports , which has too little clearance between it and any modern parallel printer plug . |
| 21 | However , it was subsequently discovered that the real target had been the Interior Minister Moussa , the attack being carried out by the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , allegedly in retaliation for the killing of two Islamic leaders by the security forces in August and September . |
| 22 | This has been the bloodiest election campaign in Columbian history ; in the last nine months , some two thousand people have died , including three presidential candidates . |
| 23 | The arrest of that worm had been the greatest cross Don had ever had to carry , the most dangerous traitor ever in the history of the government 's security service . |
| 24 | Agricultural export subsidies had been the crucial stumbling block on which this round of GATT talks foundered in December 1990 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 25 | Of note with the visit had been the laborious hand weeding of the platform by a group of men and some cosmetic painting of pillars . |
| 26 | His left jab might have been the cleanest scoring punch of the entire championships . |
| 27 | ‘ Naylor 's your cousin — and a bachelor ? ’ questioned Leith , still trying to work out why ‘ Naylor ’ had ‘ naturally ’ been the one Mrs Hepwood had sent for . |
| 28 | Within education there has been the long standing view that the individual teacher is the key resource to developing and delivering a high quality service . |
| 29 | The first oilfield to come on stream had been the small Argyll field in mid-1975 , followed by pipeline deliveries from the Norwegian ‘ Ekofisk ’ field and the massive British Forties field later that year . |
| 30 | An early occupant is said to have been the villainous Lord Soulis , who in the ballad of the Cout of Keilder forces the head of his noble visitor under a pool in the Hermitage Water to drown him . |