Example sentences of "[noun] was [noun] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It even had a 1940 's bakelite telephone which seemed to work , but the typewriter was state of the art and so , probably , was the young lady behind it . |
| 2 | David Cunningham was ensign of the garrison company of Stirling Castle , and was son-in-law of Callander of Craigforth , an influential laird , and brother of another freeholder , but Montrose 's arranged reduction of the salary of the collector appears to have reconciled Mr. Cunningham to his military duties , and MacFarlane of Kirkton retained the post for another year . |
| 3 | Previously , the Constitution dictated that the President was head of the army . |
| 4 | And I am sure that Alfred Nobel was part of the group , also . ’ |
| 5 | Gorbachev was Man of the Year for Time magazine in 1987 and for Der Spiegel in 1988 ; in 1989 he was ‘ statesman of the decade ’ for independent television in Britain ; in 1990 he was Man of the Year in France and received the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 6 | These concerns were reflected in memos like this , Gordon head of the state lottery finance department was part of the team charged with evaluating G Tec 's bid , he warned on November the third last year . |
| 7 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 8 | The statement by the Bègles coach Yves Appriou , prior to the game , that violence was part of the process of rebuilding a side , sent a shiver down the spine of the rugby community . |
| 9 | For over a century , the Gloucestershire Old Spot pig was queen of the sty across the West Country . |
| 10 | They also stressed the difference between adoption and fostering , not seen as simply one of length of placement : often the aim of fostering was restoration of the child to the natural family , or at least the maintenance of contact with it . |
| 11 | Blood was part of the job , like spilled paint to a house-painter . |
| 12 | John Dakyn was rector of the parish of Kirkby Ravensworth , which comprises of a number of small villages , including Kirkby Hill , where the parish church is situated and where the election takes place . |
| 13 | The two men were prosecuted in connection with the fraudulent bankruptcy of a finance company , Trans K-B , of which Kopp was president of the board of directors . |
| 14 | This impressive series of statutes may owe something to the influence of Justinian 's Code and Digest , which was the core of Roman law and the foundation of the training of civil lawyers ; yet while Roman law was part of the atmosphere breathed by nearly all lawyers in the thirteenth century , and at least one outstanding civil lawyer , Vacarius , was familiar to Englishmen , the statutes on the whole betray little impress of Justinian , concerned as they were largely with the clarification of traditional indigenous and feudal problems . |
| 15 | Which Tory was editor of the Spectator from 1954–1959 ? |
| 16 | For Eastern chic was flavour of the moment with others ( Amanda Wakeley , Bella Freud , Red Or Dead ) , and lots of people are doing Nehru collars . |
| 17 | The army 's deployment in the south was part of the government 's attempts to reassert control over the country under the terms of the Arab League-sponsored Taif peace accords [ see pp. 36986 ; 37928 ] . |
| 18 | This was because a degree was part of the training of a gentleman , and not a technical qualification ; the scientist was as well-educated , though in a different line , as the classicist . |
| 19 | A brilliant climber , Derbyshire-born Mick was head of the rock climbing department at the centre . |
| 20 | For a long time , the study of accents was part of the subject of dialectology , which aimed to identify all the ways in which a language differed from place to place . |
| 21 | Duroc was head of the emperor 's private police . |
| 22 | Sir Andrew Derbyshire , who as a young architect with Sheffield City Council was part of the steering committee 30 years ago , has agreed to serve again , and the chairman will be Frank Duffy of DEGW , who is now the RIBA 's Vice-President for Marketing . |
| 23 | Sometimes he thought that her simplistic morality was part of the reason why he loved her . |
| 24 | By the latter part of the 17th century , the mill was part of the Manor of Stoke Orchard and Downing , and in 1805 , for £800 , mill and bakehouse were sold to Richard Evans . |
| 25 | alderman Hussey was mayor of the City in 1758 and he would have been pleased that his idea of bringing a clean water supply to St. Edmund 's and St. Martin 's Parishes was still quite useful almost 170 years later . |
| 26 | Tilden was president of the Institute of Chemistry ( 1891–4 ) and of the Chemical Society ( 1903–5 ) . |
| 27 | The onlookers at first thought this accident was part of the show and were creased with laughter , making the poor man even more irate . |
| 28 | It is clear that prophecy was part of the experience of the people of God in the Bible ( see Numbers 11:20,1 Samuel 19:20 , Joel 2:28 , Acts 2:18 ; 15:22 ; 19:6 ; 21:9 , 1 Corinthians 11:4–5 ; 12:28 ; 14:1 and 24 , Ephesians 4:11,1 Thessalonians 5:20 for just a sample of instances ) . |
| 29 | Was it possible that Short was part of the conspiracy , that he stood to gain from his own horse being beaten ? |
| 30 | The installation of the remaining parts of the networked library package was part of the Garden 's 1989-90 Computing Upgrade , but was delayed until mid-1991 . |