Example sentences of "be the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the only female fishing . |
| 2 | Is it normal that I am the only Belgian citizen who must act against his conscience in such important matters ? |
| 3 | I am the only golden eagle you know now and you may think all are like me , and become trusting and believe they will help you . |
| 4 | I think that I am the only hon. Member to have served on two Select Committees on the channel tunnel . |
| 5 | Twenty-four soldiers , including Hale , fell dead , with forty-two wounded ; and Lieutenant Erickson wheeled around to scream at Miles , ‘ I am the only damned man of the Seventh Cavalry who wears shoulder straps alive ! ’ |
| 6 | I am the first living contact to consult , Coffin thought , lying back in his hard bed under Mrs Lorimer 's roof . |
| 7 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 8 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 9 | I also need a formal letter in original from as owner of the vehicle that I am the permitted registered keeper and user — in the same way as I had to have such a letter from . |
| 10 | I think I am the last British poop artist because the total effort of all groups now in 1990 is to be as international as possible … but I 'm not a part of it . |
| 11 | Lifting him up , the Earl replied ‘ No , son , but I am the next best thing . ’ |
| 12 | A Council of Representatives of People 's Deputies , consisting of 20 representatives from each republic , would have been the interim parliamentary body ; the proposals did envisage , however , a State Council and an Economic Committee as passed in the final resolution . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 14 | In Western music the established framework for stability and order has been the diatonic harmonic system which was developed in the Renaissance . |
| 15 | The Miners ' Welfare had long been the central social institution , and it became the focus of activity during the strike too . |
| 16 | At no other time has either left or right been able to form a government without the support of the FOP , which has therefore been the essential junior partner in coalition either with the CDU/CSU or , less often , with the SPD . |
| 17 | One of the most significant developments has been the increasing open employment of young people with severe disabilities , particularly severe intellectual disabilities . |
| 18 | Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II . |
| 19 | The Oriskany has been the commonest producing formation , and few wells have tested the Cambrian and Ordovician section where porosity associated with unconformities may be significant . |
| 20 | The basis of this calendar of jubilees seems to have been the famous Pythagorean right-angled triangle of sides three , four , and five . |
| 21 | There have been the odd sour ones , from men who object to what they call sexism in the Labour Party , ie , ‘ assisted places ’ on the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 22 | there may have been the odd light shower just to lay the dust but not a lot more . |
| 23 | Saturated world markets , together with the international embargo against Iraq ( which had been the fifth largest importer of Canadian wheat in 1989 ) , meant , however , that the country 's transport and storage facilities were placed under considerable strain . |
| 24 | The result has been the ultimate short-term short-life celluloid product , the generic mishmash hung round a gimmick . |
| 25 | The US military space and intelligence agencies — as well as the civilian federal government had not merely been the key early purchasers of computers . |
| 26 | Steel-Maitland could at last be moved from the Ministry of Labour , which had in many ways been the key departmental post of the administration , and in which he had throughout been ill-regarded but undisturbed . |
| 27 | At the time of Fahreddin Acemi 's becoming Mufti-perhaps in 844/1440–1 on Molla Yegan 's resigning his posts , but in any case not later than 848/1444 the Darulhadis would probably have been the one important medrese in Edirne founded by the reigning sultan , Murad II , since his other complex including a medrese , the Uc Serefeli , though begun in 841/1438 , was not completed until 851/1447 . |
| 28 | For the past seven years , Bates has been the one constant factor in the British Davis Cup team for since his debut against Portugal in 1985 he has never missed a match and has played singles on every occasion . |
| 29 | The donor could have been ‘ P. ’ or it could have been the two last-mentioned ladies or ‘ P. ’ could be the first-name initial of Madame Vidal . |
| 30 | You will not dispute , I presume , that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr Lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times . |