Example sentences of "be [pron] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I the head of a banking house ? |
| 2 | Am I the sort of man to set a child spying ? |
| 3 | ‘ So , what are you the prince of , anyway ? |
| 4 | ‘ Are you the driver of this vehicle , sir ? |
| 5 | Mr Rodriguez , are you the husband of the late Inday Rodriguez ? |
| 6 | Where the owner is present in the vehicle the police officer 's statement will include an admission as to the vehicle 's ownership e.g. ‘ Are you the owner of this vehicle ? ’ and the passenger replies ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you the owner of the Bentley ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Are you the owner of this vehicle , sir ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Are you the owner of this vehicle , sir ? ’ |
| 10 | Dismissals are now explained as an inevitable response to pressures beyond managerial control be they the result of higher taxes to pay for the public finance deficit or the need to introduce even greater levels of mechanization to meet world competition . |
| 11 | ‘ This must be what the Garden of Eden was like , ’ Juliet said in a hushed voice . |
| 12 | On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh 's affairs — which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted — then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared . |
| 13 | Are they the kind of characters your students will identify with and therefore want to discuss ? |
| 14 | Do you recognize any of those books are they the sort of normal |
| 15 | Yeah , but were you the sort of people that walk into hospitals and start praying for the sick to be healed . |
| 16 | The protests were accompanied by at least eight cases of self-immolation , several of which resulted in deaths and were themselves the focus of further protests . |
| 17 | The talents of individuals , it suggests , are themselves the outcome of , and are explained by , various aspects of the social environment . |
| 18 | Rather Marx and Engels sought to show how social relations are themselves the product of the social system in which they occur , of the way the material conditions of existence are organized and regulated , a system which is itself the product of history or of the particular stage of evolution . |
| 19 | Not only do they record the history of their localities , they are themselves the product of history , played on a far wider stage . |
| 20 | Talents , he says , are themselves the product of social relations , and only appear when social conditions allow . |
| 21 | Crimes thus come about through human beings interpreting and applying rules ( which are themselves the product of human deliberation ) to the actions of others . |
| 22 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 23 | It would be better to say perhaps that electoral systems reinforce existing tendencies , because such systems are themselves the product of diverse constellations of political interests and parties , and of changes in those constellations . |
| 24 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 25 | Does he think that such an argument will help him , given that the objections come from the doctors , nurses and auxiliaries , who are themselves the health of the hospital , and who will be responsible for its continuing health ? |
| 26 | ‘ You are yourself the water of life ; what shall discover that water , save the tearful eye ? ’ |
| 27 | Perceptions are not the same thing as knowledge , but they are what the holder of the perception believes to be knowledge . |
| 28 | Indeed , it was pointed out in Henry Kendall ( 1969 ) that if the seller is himself the manufacturer of the goods the implied condition will normally apply . |
| 29 | It is sometimes argued that direct persuasion applied by A to B not to perform his contract is itself the procurement of breach by unlawful means , but the argument is circular and it seems better simply to say that in this form of the tort no use of unlawful means is required . |
| 30 | Rather Marx and Engels sought to show how social relations are themselves the product of the social system in which they occur , of the way the material conditions of existence are organized and regulated , a system which is itself the product of history or of the particular stage of evolution . |