Example sentences of "[be] [pers pn] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a packet of American cigarettes from his shirt pocket ; the spectator when told his name was surprised , and asked ‘ Are you the famous revolutionary ? ’ |
| 2 | Twentieth-century developments in communications — be it the faster postal service , the telephone , telegrams or improved road conditions and means of transport — would enable far-flung relations to keep in touch with each other with an ease at which their ancestors might have marvelled . |
| 3 | These are not new issues ; nor are they the only important issues for users . |
| 4 | Nor were they the same top three from one decade to the next : groups such as Kemsley disappeared , and the market share of a survivor such as Associated Newspapers fluctuated quite widely . |
| 5 | It is interesting to connect this point with Leapor 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ; as Leapor contemplates her own death , and the soul leaving the body , the last thing she wishes to see is her friend : ‘ Be you the last that leaves my closing Eyes [ ML , 1 , 40 ] . |
| 6 | Crudely put , authority and leadership began to move from traditional leaders , be they the old pro Jordanian élite or the post-1976 pro-PLO mayors ( most of whom had been eliminated by the authorities ) , into new but less visible hands . |
| 7 | No longer is it the dull old building lost in the undergrowth . |
| 8 | Why is it the other four ? |
| 9 | Is this the new library now , or is it the new extended ? |
| 10 | And is it the same forty who said fathers are n't necessary , out of interest ? |
| 11 | Is it the same old boys ' network ? |
| 12 | Is it the hidden urban curse ? |
| 13 | Your date of birth Sir is it the twenty first of August nineteen ? |
| 14 | Is it the twenty one or is it the sixty or forty eight |
| 15 | is he the one next door ? |
| 16 | Was he the punished criminal aberration ? |
| 17 | Was it the dowdy grey dress that had earned the girl 's scorn ? |
| 18 | Was it the both both |
| 19 | Was it the remarkable 1981 Headingley Test against Australia ? |