Example sentences of "be the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I am the great I am . |
2 | The woman had also been the nearest she could get to contrite about what had happened in her apartment . |
3 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
4 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
5 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
6 | it must have been the last he wrote — saying |
7 | There are the usual look-behind-you routines . |
8 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
9 | Roland R-5 drum machine ‘ I do n't program rhythms into it , but I think the pads are the best I 've ever used . |
10 | As I say this this fellow the last twenty minutes are the best I 've seen Leicester City play for a long long time . |
11 | As the hydrogen atoms are the lightest they must move most , and it is usual to describe all three as deformation modes of the group ( Fig. 5.45 ) . |
12 | I mean he does actually make er expose di differences between different areas where , where he says peasant associations er where the landlords are the worse they will suffer the worse punishment whereas |
13 | some old man , they are the worse you know . |
14 | David Hockney 's set designs are the first he has done for Covent Garden . |
15 | And yet these hills are the first I knew and loved . |
16 | Of the following possible improvements to the NI which are the two you would most like us to make ? |
17 | Of her forty-one Landseers , his group portrait ‘ Windsor Castle in modern times ’ and ‘ Isaac Van Amburgh and his animals ’ are the two I would pick for my imaginary show . |
18 | It takes my tired brain another second to realise that these are the two I met outside the Star and Garter . |
19 | The Salzkammergut resorts are the nearest we offer to Vienna , Austria 's capital city . |
20 | It is also a curious fact that the older the remains of industry are the better they are regarded . |
21 | The closer they are the better they were you see , they could n't kick , they could n't roll about . |
22 | The wilder and louder you are the better it is . ’ |
23 | The older the leaves are the duller they appear . |
24 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
25 | Here I see few flowers , save such as water bubbles , though the fields & country generally are the richest I have ever seen . |
26 | Even on the same diet , this will vary from person to person depending on many individual factors , including the amount of excess weight ( the heavier you are the faster you tend to shed weight ) and the degree of energy expended in physical activity . |
27 | You are the main you 're in charge there , so again be aware . |
28 | It is one of the inequalities of the education system that the more successful you are the longer you can remain in it and thus delay independence and entry to work . |
29 | ‘ I 've seen them ten , twelve inches long , up to three quarters of a pound : but you do n't want them too big — the bigger they are the older they are — to have them on your plate — eight inches at the most . |
30 | We ourselves are the same it might one subject area , we might have to get down to take on loads of different things . |