Example sentences of "be [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I knew there were great opportunities at Ipswich and they are my sort of club — a family club . ’ |
| 2 | You are my Proserpine of summer |
| 3 | His argument against me had been my lack of experience — he particularly wanted someone who had a lost more PR experience . |
| 4 | ‘ I have felt better physically but the notable improvement has been my state of mind . |
| 5 | It is hoped that the analysis and insights from these other countries ( viz. Lesotho , Zimbabwe , Botswana and Nigeria ) may serve to stimulate introspection from PHC enthusiasts from within South Africa , including the staff of the Health Services Development Unit ( HSDU ) which has been my source of inspiration . |
| 6 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 7 | The main reasons for the delay have been my interest in self-preservation , my desire to protect the members of the gang , and my fear of exacerbating the gang situation in Glasgow which was receiving nationwide attention in 1968 and 1969 . |
| 8 | Two heavy concrete curves are their channel of communication … |
| 9 | Three major weaknesses of the paper are its lack of clarity , its lack of detail and the many opportunities it offers to those who hold information that should be made public , to use various loopholes to avoid so doing . |
| 10 | Actions of evil and barbarism are its stock in trade . |
| 11 | Optical illusions are her stock in trade . |
| 12 | It 's been their justification for apartheid . |
| 13 | In short , the single most significant factor in the unemployed status of those who had previously worked had been their use of heroin . |
| 14 | A curious feature of extreme right-wing groups in Western Europe since the last war has been their adherence to anti-semitism . |
| 15 | You 've been her nurse at home for four months ? ’ |
| 16 | Nevertheless Rosa produced a wooden box which was just the size , and Sarah went back up to the room that had been her home since childhood . |
| 17 | For my character that 's been her hook on life , she sees it as a way of competing with women who are brighter or have got more of a start in life . |
| 18 | And it may have been her devotion to fitness that saved her life . |
| 19 | Apart from problems inherent to plastic ( it is not as fast or manoeuvrable through the water as glassfibre ) a major weakness of the plastic used so far in sea kayaks has been its lack of rigidity . |
| 20 | One of the most important features of the British outlook of the last hundred years has been its revelry in nostalgia and dislike of change . |
| 21 | The single most important aspect of the policy has been its introduction of training and enterprise councils — TECs , in the acronym-speak that clogs up all talk of the labour market . |
| 22 | For centuries one of the most telling criticisms of Nonconformity had been its penchant towards disintegration , what Edmund Burke called ‘ the dissidence of dissent ’ . |
| 23 | They 're my sort of team . |
| 24 | would n't be my choice of play but erm i it |
| 25 | ‘ If you promise to be my slave in return . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd heard all about Group from Rosemary and it did n't seem to be my sort of place . |
| 27 | That , she said , would be my moment of glory , to tell my grandchildren , ’ I added hopefully . |
| 28 | " He will be my husband in name only and he knows I 'm in love with you . |
| 29 | Midland could be its passport for survival after 1997 — though , like all Hongkong passports these days , a costly one . |
| 30 | Although a firm 's value might rise as it borrows more , the closer it gets to bankruptcy the higher will be its cost of borrowing . |