Example sentences of "that [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But — do n't you realise that nothing is any good unless it is shared ? ’ |
| 2 | It is true that I am pure spirit . |
| 3 | One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing . |
| 4 | ‘ Your tone would seem to imply that I am some sort of Bluebeard who keeps her incarcerated . |
| 5 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 6 | Erm , that sounds very persuasive to all of us nowadays and I fully believe it , that part of what makes me me is in fact er the fact that I 'm this shape and this size |
| 7 | Why would you suppose that I 'm some kind of insomniac ? ’ |
| 8 | You 've got this superior idea that I 'm some sort of half-wit from the back of beyond who has n't the vaguest notion of what happens in the big , bad world . |
| 9 | You see , if you like me then you 'll think that I 'm some sort of brain surgeon , and if you hate me then you 'll think I 'm shit … the truth is in the middle . |
| 10 | It 's just that I 'm big build . |
| 11 | The duke and his close associates saw this small office as ‘ some mean to treat those folks who Club together and are disposed to believe that I 'm incompatible wt them ’ . |
| 12 | I whispered to Catherine that I was sure Heathcliff had heard some of what she said . |
| 13 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 14 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 15 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 16 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 17 | Candice Dungey 's attacker has not been traced , but Det Insp John Kelly , head of Middlesbrough CID , is convinced that someone is withholding information about what he called ‘ a very vicious attack ’ . |
| 18 | I think it 's debatable how selfish people really are , particularly when they see that their are short-term selfishness may in fact create long-term problems for themselves , for their children , for their grandchildren , for er other generations and other peoples , and really as I can see it the green message is one of enlightened self-interest . |
| 19 | mm , who was telling me that somebody 's four year old son has got a video and television in his bedroom his own video |
| 20 | Now the other reason why of course you wo n't perhaps erm drive naturally is because of this little bit of tension at the fact that who 's this person sitting here looking at what I 'm doing ? and it it 's putting me off . |
| 21 | if she 's not doing that she 's winding wool ready , she does |
| 22 | Amy confesses that she 's concerned Pushkin might have Aids . |
| 23 | The lights are always there so that Mrs Thatcher , at whatever hour , may choose to be seen on TV sweeping through saying nothing , thus demonstrating that she is Prime Minister and going busily about the nation 's business . |
| 24 | Mr Blair-Gould said : ‘ The prosecution clearly suggest … that she is some kind of dreadful rebel on a crusade against censorship . ’ |
| 25 | She had completely changed her views and now declared that she was sure war was imminent . |
| 26 | A beautiful witch , Carrie thought , and her heart began to thump so hard that she was sure Hepzibah must hear it . |
| 27 | Usually she got through cutting it up by fantasizing that she was Christian Barnard saving the life of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud . |
| 28 | Franca , wondering who she was , had decided that she was some sort of secretary or servant of Marcus , like the conjuror 's assistant . |
| 29 | Even Nelson 's invitation was being misconstrued as more evidence that she was some sort of siren who enjoyed luring men with her seductive powers . |
| 30 | She explained that she was left cold by Harrelson — her co-star along with Robert Redford in the forthcoming Indecent Proposal — because he is a close friend of her husband Bruce Willis . |