Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know why — I am the man of that house since my father … |
| 2 | I am the Direktor of this Company ! ’ |
| 3 | As the house committee was unwilling to dismiss the porter , the master asked the Board of Guardians to fine him , to deliver a severe reprimand to the nurse for her conduct , and ‘ give her plainly to understand that I am the Master of this house , and all lawful orders are to be obeyed ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I am the owner of this theatre and you should have sought my permission before you ventured inside , young lady . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I am the captain of that ship , ’ he said , ‘ and these two men are my first and second officers . |
| 6 | I would remind you that I am the captain of this ship and that at sea not even an admiral can take over from me or give orders which I consider to be to the detriment of this vessel . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I am the Superintendent of this division of the Great Western Railway ’ , ‘ And where do you come from ? ’ |
| 8 | However insignificant in myself I am the Representative on this question of no mean body in this country who would be … disappointed and chagrined at the suspension of the question — But further — and this is a consideration far more really influential on my Conduct — I can not but feel myself the Representative of a Body who can not speak for themselves and for whom I must act without other guide than my own Conscience . |
| 9 | ‘ This one is very grand because I am the Ruler of this tree . |
| 10 | … and I am the seed of all that is born … |
| 11 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 12 | In the event , the results have been the opposite of those originally envisaged . |
| 13 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 14 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 15 | In the years since 1981 the one consistent response to urban unrest has been the provision of more resources , more training , and more equipment to the police . |
| 16 | The 14th has been the graveyard of many an aspiring champion 's hopes . |
| 17 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ This has been the dream of many an entrepreneur and researcher for years . |
| 19 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 20 | The pros and cons of feeding hedgehogs have been the subject of much debate , but scientific evidence suggests that , even if supplementary food is put out for hedgehogs , they will still hunt on their own account . |
| 21 | This report , of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom , concerns itself with the diagnosis of brain death , but at the outset acknowledges that ‘ the dilemma of when to switch off the ventilator has been the subject of much public interest . ’ |
| 22 | As stated above , the problem of desertification has been brought to public attention by famines that have resulted in immense loss of life , especially in the Sahel-Saharan zone of Africa ( reviewed in Glanz 1987 and Mortimore 1989 ) , the causes of which have been the subject of much debate and have recently been reviewed by Hulme ( 1989 ) . |
| 23 | Minor tranquillizers , in particular , have been the subject of much criticism in view of the extent of their prescribing in general practice , their doubtful efficacy and the risks associated with their use ( Catalan and Gath 1985 ) . |
| 24 | Hermit crabs are able to make a rapid assessment of whether a particular shell is of an appropriate size or not , and how they do this has been the subject of much study . |
| 25 | Elizabeth 's intentions in 1558 have been no more clear to historians than they were to contemporaries , and have been the subject of much debate and discussion . |
| 26 | What to do for the best has been the subject of much discussion at local aquatic societies over the years . |
| 27 | The arrangements for selecting presidential candidates that produced Ronald Reagan in 1980 have been the subject of much criticism . |
| 28 | The nature of this formal regulation has been the subject of much debate . |
| 29 | Such accounts can be renegotiated , and indeed have been the subject of much discussion between the fans and ourselves . |
| 30 | One closely related question has also been the subject of much recent discussion . |