Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [am/are] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , I realise I 'm the baby of the family , and a mere female — ’ the latter drew a bleak smile from her father , acknowledging a point of contention between them spanning several years ‘ — but I do n't see how just a fire can mean the end of everything ! |
| 3 | it 's easy , you just say I 'm the Government , give me your money , |
| 4 | What , say you 're the care-giver and I 'm the |
| 5 | ‘ Sir Fulke , you say you are the executor of Sir Ralph 's will ? ’ |
| 6 | They say we are the turkeys but you better believe , We 'll be doing all the stuffing , In the Mid-Counties Combination League . |
| 7 | Our adverts say we 're the professionals , the experts , the specialists . |
| 8 | But just a mile across the city , their rivals say they 're the originals . |
| 9 | They have fiery red eyes and some say they are the Devil 's own pets , roaming the countryside with him each evening in search of the newly dead . |
| 10 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 11 | Consider what are the constituent elements of a sovereign national state : citizenship , a Parliament , a currency , a legal system and judiciary , an independent foreign policy and a diplomatic service , as well as outward symbols such as a passport , a sports team , a national anthem and a flag . |
| 12 | It is not fully clear what are the elements on which these social constructs of sexuality play . |
| 13 | I mean we 're the mugs are n't we really ? |
| 14 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 15 | Remember I am the apple of the headmaster 's eye . |
| 16 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 17 | ‘ No jests , you know I am the keeper of the King 's secrets . |
| 18 | Right as you know I 'm the head of a major advertising company . |
| 19 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 20 | know I 'm the sheriff . |
| 21 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 22 | Their last victory was in 1991 when they lost out last year to the Leinster champions Terenure who are the favourites to win tomorrow . |
| 23 | ‘ We have every reason to believe he 's a member of the IRB Supreme Council , therefore it 's vital we know who are the people he contacts . |
| 24 | Jane could do with a bit of help in the kitchen and you know you are the children 's favourite baby-sitter . |
| 25 | ‘ I know you 're the thief . |
| 26 | And from what I hear you are the person most likely to smoke Tweed out of his hideaway , wherever that may be . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , I remember you 're the cook all right . |
| 28 | You know we 're the ones accused of doing these things at the last moment . |
| 29 | Go back to your priestly intolerance , back to your blasphemous masses , back to your beads , holy water , holy smoke and stinks and remember we are the sons of the martyrs whom your church butchered and we know your church to be the mother of harlots and the abominations of the earth . |
| 30 | Of course , ’ he smiled , ‘ you know they are the Sons of Dives ? |