Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 2 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 3 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 5 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 6 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 7 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 8 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 9 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 10 | Not all of them are the high mileage though are they ? |
| 11 | ‘ Apart from a few people at the Kremlin and at Number Ten , you and I are the only people who know of the situation . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Ilona and I are the new Adam and Eve , ’ he tells me . |
| 13 | cos Edmund and I are the same age |
| 14 | I am the sole survivor of my family . |
| 15 | I am the sole author of this book , although Monsieur Francois Bergot has agreed to write the introduction . |
| 16 | Moderator I present the report , and must ask the clerk to move the deliverance as I am the corresponding member . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm Ron Barton and I 'll have you know that I am the Roving Correspondent of the True Brit , the newspaper with an even bigger circulation than the Sun , and I never laid a finger on , or up , the lady . |
| 18 | I am the first person to admit that success is not that frequent at Athletico and on those rare occasions when it comes we are always left with a nasty aftertaste to spoil it . |
| 19 | It was never catalogued ; I am the first person outside the Unit ever to know what it was doing … |
| 20 | I am the first musician in my family . |
| 21 | The big spender asks if I am the new man . |
| 22 | ‘ I am the right side of the Consul-General 's brain . |
| 23 | ‘ I am the Official Dog Chaser — it 's my responsibility . |
| 24 | ‘ I am the chief Magistrate ’ , quietly responded Mr. Butler . |
| 25 | I am the proud owner of a Series III Lightweight . |
| 26 | I am the proud owner of a 1988 Land Rover 2.5 Turbo Diesel . |
| 27 | I am the proud owner of a One Ten County 1989 model . |
| 28 | ‘ I am standing to win because I believe I am the best candidate to lead the Labour Party to victory next time but also because it is imperative that we have a contest in which a proper debate can take place , ’ he added . |
| 29 | She heard them clinking , and she thought : ‘ I 'm here in these lovely gardens because I am the Best Child in the World . ’ |
| 30 | I , La Carlotta , I am the best opera singer in Paris . |