Example sentences of "be [num] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are 10 of the players who beat Australia in August , all but Mike Brewer having started each of New Zealand 's five summer Tests . |
| 2 | These laws have been in force for hundreds of years — and they 're one of the things that are going to disappear in 1992 , at least in Germany . |
| 3 | " You 're one of the Whalbys , ae n't you ? |
| 4 | They 're one of the keys , best keys men in , a friend of mine . |
| 5 | I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ? |
| 6 | ‘ They 're one of the horrors of it . ’ |
| 7 | They 're one of the reasons I now make everyone come to me , rather than traipsing round the world . ’ |
| 8 | So at work you 're one of the lads . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're one of the survivors ? ’ |
| 10 | I mean , you 're one of the guests of honour and … ’ |
| 11 | Yes , they 're two of the islands in the Inner Hebrides ; Crispin will know . |
| 12 | It turned out to be one of the buoys which marked the safe limits of the channel for the ships entering and leaving the cavern . |
| 13 | Hitchhiking across Czechoslovakia during a snowstorm , wearing a hot pink Luhta skisuit , has to be one of the memories that will remain with me forever . |
| 14 | You could never , as she said , pretend to be one of the boys in a skirt . |
| 15 | I excelled at no sports at all , preferring instead to be one of the boys who was allowed to use the lawn mowers and keep the garden in trim — my one attempt at cricket was a disaster , and I was sent off the field for not paying attention . |
| 16 | She liked to show a matey interest in things , be one of the boys , prove she was n't stuck-up and so on . |
| 17 | The management should n't try to be one of the boys . ’ |
| 18 | It 's hard to be one of the boys when the boys unite only against a common enemy and at the moment that is oneself . |
| 19 | And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys . |
| 20 | Whether this sense of unreasonableness is needed at all , and the way in which the courts have manipulated it , well be one of the matters discussed . |
| 21 | We seek to promote non-proliferation and disarmament , and that will be one of the matters to be discussed at the United Nations Security Council meeting that I shall chair next week . |
| 22 | I think we talked about this yesterday , I think and certainly my view was that th s that a further increment onto er a new settlement would be one of the options . |
| 23 | no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options |
| 24 | She had expected to be one of the others . |
| 25 | Today , even the most traditional courses in English Literature do not , as a rule , include the English Bible , reasonably thought to be one of the masterpieces of our literature . |
| 26 | It was Maria Luigia who commissioned the building of the Teatro Regio , with its white and gold and red plush interior , and appointed Paganini , who had lived in Parma since the age of twelve , to be one of the directors of her orchestra , at that time the finest in all Italy . |
| 27 | If a fluid balance chart is in use it will be continued until the patient goes to theatre and will be one of the documents which accompany him . |
| 28 | By 1.3.9 , Nn can be written as a product of finitely many primes [ i.e. irreducibles ] unc say , where each ti must be one of the primes from the complete list |
| 29 | On the other hand , for all I know , it may be one of the compensations or rationalisations for giving yourself short breath , a cough and a foul mouth and for making things unpleasant for other people . |
| 30 | Freedom of movement for individuals will be one of the cornerstones of the new Europe , enshrined in the single Europe act , due to come into effect on the first of January 1993 . |