Example sentences of "of [noun prp] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Speech Court ’ in the Forest of Dean is still scheduled to be held every forty days , but the verderers ' sittings are formal , and their court is usually adjourned until there is sufficient business . |
| 2 | The Forest of Dean is not an area with a vast quantity of mills although certain areas were quite heavily utilised . |
| 3 | Another water course formerly of great importance in the Forest of Dean is the Cone Brook . |
| 4 | Easily Accessible : There is plenty to do and see in this beautiful area ; within a 15-mile radius there are ten castles to explore and the Forest of Dean is only 5 miles away . |
| 5 | The village of Soudley in the Forest of Dean is typical of communities facing a rural recession . |
| 6 | The Forest of Dean is riddled with underground streams and springs . |
| 7 | The Forest of Dean is riddled with underground streams and springs . |
| 8 | The Forest of Dean is riddled with underground streams and springs . |
| 9 | The Forest of Dean is riddled with underground streams and springs . |
| 10 | But if what I have said by the light of a new candle is true — and who can doubt it ? — then even the elderly beeches and majestic old oaks of a remembered Forest of Dean are not capable of withstanding the fungoid of stress or the vegetable odours of spiritual decay . |
| 11 | Bath , Bristol , Stratford-upon-Avon , Oxford and the Forest of Dean are all easily reached for day trips . |
| 12 | Organisers of last weekend 's New Age festival in the Forest of Dean are facing prosecution for noise nuisance . |
| 13 | The traffic-free routes in the Forest of Dean are already a big attraction for cyclists . |
| 14 | A mother and daughter in the Forest of Dean are writing to more than fifty prisoners in America … including convicted killers on death row . |
| 15 | Hundreds of ramblers from the Forest of Dean are campaigning against the governments proposals . |
| 16 | The Gloucester Forest Eyre rolls of 1270 and 1282 record long lists of offences of which the foresters of fee of the Forest of Dean were convicted . |
| 17 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 18 | The Free Miners of the Forest of Dean were brought in to the general election campaign today , with a warning that their livelihoods could be ruined by imports of cheap foreign coal . |
| 19 | From up here , the Forest of Dean was a holy land . |
| 20 | In September 1231 , for example , John le Malemort , a smith , was sent to make quarrels at St Briavels castle , and the warden of the Forest of Dean was ordered to supply him with ‘ wood for making the shafts , charcoal and iron for the heads , and lard for greasing them ’ . |
| 21 | In May the warden of the Forest of Dean was ordered to pay 300 marks into the Wardrobe out of the proceeds , and in September to repay a royal debt of 200 marks to Robert Walerand . |
| 22 | The Forest of Dean was once a great and thriving centre for a number of industrial activities , the best-known being iron and coal production . |
| 23 | Crowe 's long-standing ambition to secure the lease of the royal ironworks in the Forest of Dean was finally rewarded in 1635 when he and his partners obtained the lease after the existing lessees had fallen foul of the royal forest jurisdiction . |
| 24 | Seventeen year old Stephen Dent from Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean was treated in Moscow earlier this year . |
| 25 | The reproof of Beatrice is not , I conceive , as remote as it might seem from our own world . |
| 26 | The surviving correspondence does not make clear what happened to Mr. Carrick , but as Glassford had by the time of election three votes prepared and George Abercromby defeated Major Dundas , it may be surmised that Lord Dundas 's failure to secure the reinstatement of the collector of Inverness was seen by Glassford as a neglect which justified his remaining friendly with Abercromby . |
| 27 | The Elector Count of Ostland is Valmir von Raukov . |
| 28 | The Dragon Bow of Ostland is inscribed with mighty runes which confer tremendous strength to its user . |
| 29 | A mighty army of Kislevites and the Elector Count of Ostland was crushed north of Praag , and the Chaos army advanced along the western foothills of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 30 | The clerical domination of Western thought during the Dark and Middle Ages resulted in a relative neglect of this subject until the sixteenth century , when the rather trivializing " dream-books " of Artemidorus were rediscovered . |