Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the night before Sports Day I am the school 's champion athlete . |
| 2 | " I am the shoemaker 's father . " |
| 3 | " Oh , " she said suavely , " I am the Czar 's governess . " |
| 4 | ‘ I am the king 's coroner . |
| 5 | ‘ Brother Athelstan , ’ he said testily , ‘ I would remind you that I am the king 's coroner and those two , ’ he gestured in the direction of the Springall house , ‘ Sir Richard and that expensive paramour of his , are guilty of murder ! ’ |
| 6 | I am the King 's Coroner . |
| 7 | I am the Lord 's servant ; as you have spoken , so be it ( Luke 1:38 ) . |
| 8 | His own role is emphatically stated : ‘ I am the Lord 's News-Writer — the scribe-evangelist ’ ( B327 ) . |
| 9 | I am the devil 's fattest spawn . |
| 10 | ‘ I am the Teller 's bodyguard . |
| 11 | I am the TCCB 's lackey , and I act only when they order me . ’ |
| 12 | Boycott ( fixes wan , wonky , ever-righteous grin in place ) : I am the People 's Champ . |
| 13 | Sadly , a few favourites are ignored altogether — finding some relevance in ‘ We all live in a Yellow Submarine ’ or ‘ I am the Walrus ' , it seems , was beyond even the Research Board . |
| 14 | ‘ Roger , Roger , ’ he whispered , ‘ I am the Cardinal 's man in peace and war , at least for the next ten years . |
| 15 | ‘ After all , I am the club 's leading Second Division scorer , despite missing games through injury and being on the bench at times . ’ |
| 16 | I am the Kha-Khan 's trusted servant , and he has given me everything I ever asked of him : this land in perpetuity , peace and security for our clan forever . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Whether the council likes it or not I am the town 's MP and I am a minister . |
| 18 | When Kylie first got involved in the film , rock megastar David Bowie was to have been the film 's executive producer . |
| 19 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 20 | In addition , I am delighted to announce that our Director General will be Peter Rowe , who has been the Institute 's Head of External Affairs since 1986 . |
| 21 | The ‘ Mess ’ is now thought to have been the Quartermaster 's Stores . |
| 22 | One source of controversy had been the plan 's provision for a total of $27,000 million in foreign investment , especially in the oil and petrochemicals sector , which hardliners saw as compromising the country 's independence . |
| 23 | The evening was honoured with the presence of Princess Margaret ; and very generously sponsored and presented by Digital Equipment Company , who have been the Sadler 's Wells Theatre 's main sponsor since 1986 . |
| 24 | Thus the Baileys ' garden was L-shaped , and the remaining portion of Tullivers ' land , a mere quarter of an acre , allowed room for only a lawn , a few mature lilac and may trees and the flower border which had been the Admiral 's particular pride . |
| 25 | The BBC planned to give the film a third airing on what would have been the admiral 's eightieth birthday , and when this became known we were approached by Lord Brabourne , Mountbatten 's son-in-law , to say that his cousin Prince Charles who , as everyone knew , adored his uncle , wanted to pay him a personal tribute . |
| 26 | Rumours abounded that the reason was that Magdalene ( a pupil of Mozart 's ) had also been the composer 's mistress , and that her unborn child was Mozart 's . |
| 27 | The example from Bartók 's Fourth Quartet illustrates this method , which must have been the composer 's way of working in many parts of the work . |
| 28 | MARK MELTON has been the Musicians ' Union 's music business adviser since 1987 . |
| 29 | Laidlaw had always been the unit 's fitness fanatic , pushing himself to the limit to keep his lean , muscular body in shape . |
| 30 | In 1633 , one of the leading Arminians , William Laud , who had been the king 's chief religious adviser since the beginning of the reign , was appointed to succeed Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the mid-1630s most of the other bishops ' thrones were also occupied by Arminians . |