Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] are the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir Fulke , you say you are the executor of Sir Ralph 's will ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And from what I hear you are the person most likely to smoke Tweed out of his hideaway , wherever that may be . ’ |
| 6 | The work of a French doctor , Jacques Duval 's Des Hermaphordits , Twelfth Night and As You Like It are the focus for an exploration of the ways a culture 's sexual discourse plays a critical role in the shaping of identity . |
| 7 | The letter , from Oxfordshire County Council 's engineering department , said : ’ I understand you are the owner of the vehicle involved and therefore must inform you that the council holds you responsible for the costs of repairs arising from this incident . ’ |
| 8 | Well , I feel you are the person I would most like to save from hell . |
| 9 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 10 | Nor should the other partner feel they are the object of the charity of some ‘ big benevolent bread winner ’ . |
| 11 | Women themselves feel they are the group most at the mercy of current development strategies and are willing and keen to create their own people-centred , self-sufficient development schemes . |
| 12 | In both Classical and Christian thinking mysticism represents a way back to the source of being , but in Christian thinking from the fourth century on , the gulf between Creator and created was seen as mysteriously bridged by the love of God incarnate in Jesus Christ , God 's Word , the expression of himself manifest in time , which , in turn , enables human knowledge and love which are the way back . |
| 13 | For example , Parsons explicitly says that , that the drives of the id are socially moulded in the sense that , the forms in which they express themselves are the result of socialization . |