Example sentences of "[noun prp] be bear was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Egypt into which Nasser was born was at its base an old and stable society . |
| 2 | In Portsmouth , Hants , a pub where Charles Dickens was born was wrecked by a gang of drunks after they were refused a drink . |
| 3 | I was that knacked not her , bright as a button , she still did n't sleep that bloody night , she 's a swine , Linda was n't very old when Pam was born was she ? |
| 4 | The Montreal into which Leonard was born was deeply segmented , as is Canada itself in its famous ‘ two solitudes ’ , the legacy of its Franco-British history ; a difficult dimension for those outside its rivalries to understand . |
| 5 | The one in which Galileo was born was an autocracy , the Grand Duchy of Tuscany , with its capital at Florence and its second city at Pisa , his birthplace . |