Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you call him Moke I 'm the only person that calls i that calls him that , so he 'll know who you 're related to . |
| 2 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 3 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 4 | It is Ben Tee which is the real eyecatcher from anywhere along Loch Garry or the Great Glen itself : a solitary , lofty cone seen through birch and pine , mirror-imaged in the waters of the surrounding lochs . |
| 5 | Yeah , I mean what was nice in , in a way was that er I could n't go to the last meeting I was n't well , I had a cold er , what was nice in a way was that David who 's the general manager and the general manager from Pitlochry had come in , I mean in a way it was a classic case |
| 6 | What 's more , David who was the senior figure running this hostel , had his fingers in every tourist pie going and could get for us whatever we needed . |
| 7 | Like the Carters ' , the Parsons ' marriage was in turn-around , only there it was Dennis who was the sleeping partner . |
| 8 | But apart from the United States she was the only non-European state which could claim anything like this status . |
| 9 | Those two John and Andy you were the highest on that John what are your views on that ? |
| 10 | depot sales meetings so , on a regular basis now erm , including Jeff who 's the general manager . |
| 11 | The knocked-down kit with options costs £20,640 ( as opposed to £19,252 for the almost-built version quoted in the back of this magazine ) , but because of its rare nature and the fact that Caterham itself is the sole official sales outlet , gaining an accurate reflection of the car 's true worth is by no means an easy process . |
| 12 | Here , by contrast , it is Charlotte Brontë who is the implied subject of " encouraged " ; and she is also the grammatical subject of the sentence . |
| 13 | David does n't want them in the first place and he wo n't argue , I 've discussed it with Robin he wo n't argue , erm Richard who 's the only one that could really be regarded as a loser dare n't argue 'cos it 's his report that recommends we they come back to us , and John wo n't understand the item so I think we 're alright there . |
| 14 | Along the foot of the South Downs north of Chichester there is the well-known Goodwood raised beach at about 30–40 m ( 100–130 ft ) OD , with gravels which are readily recognisable as beach material : a low raised beach a few feet above present high tide level is to be found on the Gower peninsula in South Wales ; on the west coast of Scotland a raised beach at approximately 7 5 m ( 25 ft ) OD occurs on many of the islands , such as Arran , and in many of the lochs . |
| 15 | In Britain this is reinforced by such practices as attending a number of dinners a term in the Inns of Court while they are students for the Bar ; in both Britain and the United States there is the shared experience of dealing with problems from a legal perspective and extensive contact with other lawyers . |
| 16 | Even in the same region of the western United States there was the catastrophic breaking of the morainic dam of " Lake Bonneville " ( ancestor of the Great Salt Lake ) about 30 000 years ago . |
| 17 | However ( as we indicated in Chapter 3 ) , between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s in the United States there was the marked and dramatic shift towards the dominance of survey methods in social research . |
| 18 | But Major makes a point of not being grand , and with Sir David it is the other way about . |
| 19 | For Edward it was the third of many stages on his career as a writer : |
| 20 | I think if you had asked Freud what 's the minimum number numerically for one of , for the Bond Freud Crowds , Freud would have thought for a bit and I think he would have said three . |
| 21 | Watkins himself was the first to attempt some sort of statistical assessment . |
| 22 | ASK any tourist in the North of England which is the smart restaurant to eat in and you 'll be told Harry Ramsden 's . |
| 23 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 24 | College sports and leisure tutor John Dacey , who is organising the fund- raising , said : ‘ We were inspired to raise the money through seeing reports about Albania which is the poorest country in Europe . |
| 25 | Well we went off , we got off at Peel which was the other side as you know and there was Peel Castle right on the hill there and erm well after , and she said we wo n't go to these sea front cafes , well I know a nice restaurant , she said , up that road , and she said , just turn to the right and there we are , see . |
| 26 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 27 | But it is Jonny who is the driving force , the black leather jacket may have gone , the cowboy boots were nowhere to be seen yesterday , but the earring is still in place and so is the intensity which stunned Cambridge two years ago . |
| 28 | More serious than the actual material damage in Schweinfurt itself were the psychological effects of the first raids . |
| 29 | I 'll introduce you to W P C Heather who 's the local crime prevention officer . |
| 30 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |