Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I tempting Serafin towards her own destruction ? |
| 2 | Am I some sort of climbing Jonah , the victim of misfortune and circumstance ? |
| 3 | ‘ They are my outside tip for the title . ’ |
| 4 | Newspapers are my only source of income . |
| 5 | ‘ You are my sole source of strength . ’ |
| 6 | You are my favourite person in the whole world . |
| 7 | Been my major struggle for a long time now . |
| 8 | ‘ I would say the overwhelming influence on my artistic interpretation of the world has been my early training as a sculptor . |
| 9 | It had been my first venture into the hotel business and probably my last — I take my hat off to anyone who makes it work . |
| 10 | So this has been my first step towards designing something different . |
| 11 | Thank god he s having more shots now too — that s been my only criticism of him over the last year , now he s looking to shoot more , and scoring ! |
| 12 | Had this been my regular field of action , I too would have made myself hors de combat . |
| 13 | It had been my thirtieth birthday in November . |
| 14 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 15 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 16 | ‘ That would have been my main reason for marrying him . |
| 17 | ‘ Happy Christmas , Linda — you 've been my little bit of Christmas — it 's always the busiest folk who make time for others . |
| 18 | The organisers of the pools believe that huge jackpots are their best weapon in fighting the threat posed by a national lottery . |
| 19 | Both spiders hunt at night , and the sounds of the insects ' wingbeats are their only guide to the position of their prey . |
| 20 | For others , the arts and beauty are their prime source of pleasure and happiness . |
| 21 | The composer and the writer of the text ( where one is used ) mediate and transcribe the words and music which are their particular inspiration from God . |
| 22 | The first is that the stockmarket does not collapse again , causing banks ' equity capital and their unrealised share gains ( which are their main cushion against bad loans ) to dwindle . |
| 23 | The respiratory symptoms are its main indication for use |
| 24 | The respiratory symptoms are its main indication for use . |
| 25 | Special cards are always appreciated at times like these — my grandmother says that cards are her favourite part of the proceedings . |
| 26 | However , in a gesture of reconciliation , the Orthodox Metropolitan of the Banat , Nicolae Corneanu , returned to the Uniates Lugoj Cathedral , which had been their principal church before 1948 . |
| 27 | For most it would have been their first experience of the internationalism of the movement . |
| 28 | It may well be that the Tories ' most lasting and damaging contribution to the cultural life of the nation will have been their deliberate subjection of Britain 's television companies to the crudest of market forces , which will almost certainly reduce the best programmes in the world to the shoddy idiocies everyone else in Europe and US is fed . |
| 29 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 30 | She 's been their senior presenter for ten years now , handling everything from live interviews to those awful moments when a filmed report is suddenly dropped and she is left to fill time with cheerily improvised observations — ‘ that 's when I really earn my money . ’ |