Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 2 | Sir J. Franklin desires me to give his compliments — he is in very good health & hopes you are the same . ’ |
| 3 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 4 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 5 | Nor has it been the result of government action and state control . |
| 6 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 7 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 8 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 9 | In the case of both /Ε/; and /a/ it is the persons for whom the vowel has less significance as a network marker who seem to be leading the linguistic change . |
| 10 | Manipulation of ‘ needs ’ by both creating them and satisfying them is the process by which social control is effected . |
| 11 | Erm , we also , again I mean , as you say , we always look at ourselves and say we 're the best team in the company . |
| 12 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 13 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 14 | Today the Bangor editor said : ‘ We are determined to emulate our team and show we are the top dogs in north Down . |
| 15 | The choice of McLeish as captain will , Roxburgh believes , remove an unwanted , additional pressure from McStay 's shoulders and let him be the midfield schemer who orchestrates the emphatic victory essential to Scotland 's progress . |
| 16 | Anne Cullen has spent nearly half of her twenty two years of married life pregnant … and says she 's the happiest mum in the world . |
| 17 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 18 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 19 | Then he makes up this funny word and says it 's the name of a disease by which his brain is rotting away . |
| 20 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 21 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 22 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 23 | When all 's said and done it 's the character that counts . ’ |
| 24 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 25 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 26 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 27 | He reaches into his bag , brings out a sandwich , then stands up and inspects it is the projector beam to see what it contains . |
| 28 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 29 | COCA-COLA took over sponsorship of the League Cup in a £2.25 million deal yesterday and confirmed they are the ‘ real thing ’ for football . |
| 30 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |