Example sentences of "be [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 2 | ‘ What are my suppliers going to think when my business account cheques start bouncing too ? ’ |
| 3 | What are my students going to think for goodness ' sake ? ’ |
| 4 | Are my shoulders hunched so that they are close to my ears ? |
| 5 | ‘ What are my guests doing , Jane ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And are my eyes deceiving me or are you not the girl who ruined the broomstick display last year ? |
| 7 | COUNTESS : Why are my retirements invaded , audacious Spaniard ? |
| 8 | ‘ Those are my angels looking after Belle , ’ she pronounced . |
| 9 | ‘ Nor are my Principals made of gold , sir ! ’ |
| 10 | Finally , since all too many non-payers were simply ’ wo n't payers ’ , sponging on the rest , I hope that we will provide all the powers necessary to ensure that never again are my constituents expected to pay for the law breakers . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years , sir , within these very walls . ’ |
| 12 | Dear Mr. Edison , I am profoundly indebted to you for , not the entertainment only , but the instruction and the marvels of one of the most remarkable evenings which it has been my privilege to enjoy . |
| 13 | It has never , of course , been my privilege to have seen such things at first hand , but I will nevertheless hazard this with some confidence : the English landscape at its finest — such as I saw it this morning — possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations , however more superficially dramatic , inevitably fail to possess . |
| 14 | The 30-year-old striker , who used to support Liverpool from the Kop , said : ‘ It 's always been my dream to score against them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have been a runner-up at United and again since coming to Villa , but it 's always been my dream to win the big one , ’ said McGrath . |
| 16 | I got it from him for $125 , and it 's been my mainstay flatpicking electric guitar ever since . |
| 17 | Over the intervening years one of my great laments has been my inability to achieve solitude , as everywhere I can now go , so can everyone else . |
| 18 | It has been my pleasure to meet many members at various functions and both Mary and I look forward to meeting many more of you during the coming year . |
| 19 | IT HAD long been my ambition to learn to fly , but I had discounted it as being too expensive and not very easy to start . |
| 20 | You are without exception the rudest man it has ever been my misfortune to share a restaurant with ; and I think I can speak for all the others present when I say that . ’ |
| 21 | You are the most ill-mannered , arrogant man it has ever been my misfortune to meet and if you think that I am going to obediently trot over there and start picking up that rubbish now … ’ |
| 22 | His letter was probably the saddest , most pathetic six paragraphs it has ever been my misfortune to read . |
| 23 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 24 | ‘ It had been my intention to ask Tom to help manage Handley Farm , but I realise he can not possibly take on such a task now he has been asked to perform similar duties on behalf of the manor . ’ |
| 25 | It has always been my intention to call a public meeting for all interested parties once we have something definite to report . |
| 26 | It had been my intention to seek out a further interview with Mr Cardinal with minimum delay , but this proved to be impossible , owing largely to the arrival that same afternoon — some two days earlier than expected — of Mr Lewis , the American senator . |
| 27 | In writing this book , it has been my intention to try to see how war , over a period of 150 years or so , affected developments and changes in two of Europe 's leading societies , those of France and England . |
| 28 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 29 | But since my brother 's death it has been my duty to care for my two nieces . |
| 30 | Among these advantages are their ability to represent partial information in an elegant way ; the inherent potential for structure sharing ; the declarative description of information flow , and a mathematically clean and computationally tractable type system with inheritance ( Bouma et al , 1988 ) . |