Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Welch , head of trans-European and overseas initiatives , has been at Longlands for six years , moving there from Saltburn Comprehensive where she was head of physics . |
| 2 | Dr John Scott makes a welcome return to the Province from St Paul 's Cathedral London , where he is Director of Music . |
| 3 | Married with three sons , Prof lives in suburban Bassett , Southampton , where he is professor of politics . |
| 4 | Married with three sons , Prof Plant lives in Bassett , Southampton , where he is professor of politics . |
| 5 | After a three month search DEC UK Ltd has appointed Christopher Conway as UK managing director and UK-Ireland territory manager : Conway comes from IBM UK Ltd where he was director of UK banking and financial services — Geoff Shingles , who resigned as managing director at the end of 1992 , remains chairman . |
| 6 | After a three month search DEC UK Ltd has appointed Christopher Conway as UK managing director and UK-Ireland territory manager : Conway comes from IBM UK Ltd where he was director of UK banking and financial services — Geoff Shingles , who resigned as managing director at the end of 1992 , remains chairman . |
| 7 | Mr Amann joins the Copthorne group from Forte 's international division where he was director of food and beverage operations at the Royal Mansour Hotel , Casablanca , Morocco . |
| 8 | He was educated at Shrewsbury School ( 1893–8 ) , where he was captain of cricket and head of the school , and at Christ Church , Oxford , where he graduated with a third class in classical honour moderations in 1900 . |
| 9 | god of war of Norway or somewhere or something like that , or it is sort of thunder |
| 10 | This suggests that she is Ælfgifu of Northampton , and that her status , in Thorney at least , was considerable . |
| 11 | Britain 's most senior policewoman , Assistant Chief Constable Alison Halford , of Merseyside Police , has told an industrial tribunal that she is victim of sex discrimination |
| 12 | We purported to atomise the person of the Sovereign , so that she was Queen of Canada , Queen of Australia , etc. , and eventually , in the pantomime season , Queen of Grenada . |
| 13 | Yet as far as we know , these pinpricks to the memory that she was queen of Scots did not seriously upset her ready assumption that her mother would do the job for her . |
| 14 | Thank You , Lord , that You are Lord of Lords and King of Kings . |
| 15 | Father , You are lord of the church and we acknowledge that you are lord of St Leonard 's . |
| 16 | Father ! ’ ’ it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God , and if children , then heirs . ’ |
| 17 | He tells our spirits that we are children of God . |
| 18 | Father ’ , it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our Spirit that we are children of God , and if children then heirs , heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ , provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him' ( Rom. 8:15ff ) . |
| 19 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 20 | What we need to do is get our members and make them feel that they 're part of Europe , not dispossessed by it , at this moment in the time there 's not a lot for them in consideration of Europe . |
| 21 | Distinguishing some children 's books as ‘ classics ’ does serve one valuable purpose : it is the recognition that they are works of merit in their own right . |
| 22 | there 's basically three points that the public worry about , one is certainly the pothole situation and if we take er Mr assurance that they are categories of roads that will be dealt with in priority , I think we also then need to spell out those various categories within our promise , er because in Mr place , example his pothole is just as important to him or indeed to a motorcyclist going along that little lane going into the pothole as , on , on a front road , so I think we need to clarify those , those er categories . |
| 23 | Both views are right ( Handy and Aitken 1986:34 ) : In that they are collections of individuals brought together for a purpose , schools are subject to all the problems , limitations and excitements that are inherent in getting people to work together , wherever they do it . |
| 24 | On 5 June 1992 Sir Stephen Brown P. found these facts proved , held that they were contempts of court and that M. 's conduct both within the courtroom and on the roof of the court building came within the category of ‘ contempt in the face of the court ’ and , as such , was particularly grave . |
| 25 | Suspecting that the compass was playing up again , Wood altered course by 5° but after another 20 minutes Darwin still informed them that they were north of course . |
| 26 | But he would deny that they were evidence of God . |
| 27 | They found alternative sites under house roofs , but suffered because of a superstitious belief that they were omens of death . |
| 28 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |
| 29 | Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard . |
| 30 | Many believed that they were victims of prejudice . |