Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Think rather that I am the lady of death and that you are the master of death ! |
| 2 | ‘ Not yet ’ , was the reply : ‘ At present I am the Member of Parliament for Henley ’ ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ For li the grace of God I am the Reviver of ADORATION amongst ENGLISH-MEN . ’ |
| 4 | I am the officer in charge of all cultural activities in Birnin Gwari local government of Kaduna State in Nigeria . |
| 5 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 6 | Although striking an important psychological blow by coming out on the winning side against his main challenger , Wasps ' Steve Bates , he admitted : ‘ Even though I am the man in possession , it would be just as easy for the selectors to pick Steve . ’ |
| 7 | C is the velocity of light , as it says in ‘ Space Time ’ , the way we measure the velocity of light , and therefore I am the bringer of light , the prince of light , Lucifer himself . ’ ’ |
| 8 | I am the bringer of death to your world ! ’ |
| 9 | I am the bringer of death to your world ! ’ |
| 10 | I am the bringer of death to your world ! ’ |
| 11 | I am the sort of man who enjoys dancing , but these steps are outside my ken . |
| 12 | I am the sort of person , I would like to be a bus driver , work in a nursery . |
| 13 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 14 | ‘ Look , I am the sort of person who is always in demand — always ! |
| 15 | I am the author of War in the Nursery ( Virago , 1983 ) , have contributed to several books and journals , and have published collections of poetry , the most recent of which is Dry Air ( Virago , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's impossible for there to be a lower point , simply because of this result and the fact that I am the manager in charge of a team representing the country . ’ |
| 17 | Until now , the only problem with this theory has been the lack of evidence , apart from the impossibility of finding anyone who admits to having voted Tory . |
| 18 | Of course in the past this has often been the lack of interest which has been shown by district councils , who have tried to ignore the existence of the press . |
| 19 | As far as evaluation efforts by academic librarians in general are concerned , the primary problem has been the lack of student response to the process and the consequent impossibility of reaching sufficiently valid conclusions on the basis of small evaluation returns . |
| 20 | The difficulty with this has been the lack of confidence in building budget forecasts for 1993–4 out of not very precise market-mapping exercises done with only 1992–3 figures . |
| 21 | One of the problems facing libraries in the use of video material has been the lack of standardization between different systems . |
| 22 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 23 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 24 | In their view a major cause of the decline in profits has been the ability of labour , during the post-war years of high employment , to increase its share of value added at the expense of profits . |
| 25 | A major task has been the removal of asbestos insulation . |
| 26 | Another boost to the market has been the removal of turnover tax at the beginning of this year , which tripled volumes . |
| 27 | The stones may have been the origin of market sites , and have been the focus , or ompholos , around which market towns grew up . |
| 28 | This has been the experience of power companies in the United States , where such schemes have been tried on a larger scale . |
| 29 | A more important factor , however , has been the provision of government support for collective bargaining . |
| 30 | One of the few creditable responses of the outside world in this dismal war has been the provision of food and medical help . |