Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How had his wife managed to spot it when she , too , he could have sworn , had kept her eyes off them was a puzzle to the Colonel who tended to the view of Woman as Eternal Enigma . |
| 2 | However , they also argue that only a vote for them is a vote for the Union . |
| 3 | Soul for them was a form of exertion ; performance that Barney Hoskyns called ( in reference to The Jam , as it happens ) ‘ a gymnasium of exhortation ’ . |
| 4 | Any dialogue between them is a step in the right direction . ’ |
| 5 | One of the great culinary joys for me is a bowl of aïoli — the golden garlic mayonnaise so thick you can cut it with a knife — with a plate of crunchy baby vegetables scrubbed and served just as they are . |
| 6 | The ‘ need ’ for large numbers of very old people to be cared for , because they are unable fully to look after themselves is a phenomenon of the later part of the twentieth century , when the age structure of the population has shifted to give high proportions of older people , at the same time as advances in medical care have enabled many more people to survive into very old age , despite infirmities . |
| 7 | Another argument for its being a liability of the current year is that employees are normally entitled to redundancy pay under the law . |
| 8 | The only job the words ‘ I feel ’ have , in a report of one 's bodily sensations , is to prepare the hearer for its being a report about one 's body qua sensitive and not about one 's body qua sensible . |
| 9 | ( 7 ) ) , the maximum penalty for which is a fine of level 1 ( Sched. 5 ) . |
| 10 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 11 | Below them was a collection of boots and shoes , gardening tools , cardboard boxes , books , cooking utensils , spare vehicle pars and horse leathers . |
| 12 | The other manufacturers are trying to do the same but I think some of them are a bit behind Rover and they 've got to catch up . |
| 13 | She said , I mean , she says I 'm not prejudiced here , and she says there 's obvious exceptions and they 're not bad but the majority of them are a waste of time ! |
| 14 | Or disappear forever wiped out by some killer bug and all that will be left of them is a film in which they 're playing their own ancestors ? |
| 15 | Underlying all of them is a form of thinking which might be called the ‘ urge to quantify ’ . |
| 16 | One of them is a vice-president of CND . |
| 17 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 18 | At the heart of both of them is a witness to the vital relationship between the historical reality of the Incarnation and a way of living by which man may engage with the spiritual reality it manifested and thus extend it in time . |
| 19 | Christie 's braced themselves for the golf fanatics for their 19 February sale , which featured three paintings by Sir John Lavery , one of them being a vista of the famous Golf Links , North Berwick ( est. $60–80,000 ) , which sold to London dealer Titus Kendall for $110,000 ( £63,200 ) . |
| 20 | On one side of them was a sprawl of turquoise cabbages , frilly and tight-waisted , ready to bolt . |
| 21 | ‘ One of them was a relative of yours , ’ Frau Nordern said . |
| 22 | To the left of them was a complex of nets and cages in which the leopards , lions , cheetahs and tigers lived . |
| 23 | One of them was a student of military uniforms . |
| 24 | If any member of the council or any nominee of his is a member of a company or other body with which the contract is made or is proposed to be made , or is a partner , or is in the employment of a person with whom the contract is made , he has an indirect pecuniary interest which he should disclose . |
| 25 | Whether they were great friends of his was a matter of conjecture . |
| 26 | I think my transsexual obsession must have triggered puberty when I could not reconcile the fact of my being a girl with my intense crushes on other girls . |
| 27 | There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform . |
| 28 | In part this is a consequence of differences in the habitual requirements of different species ; more than 82 per cent of the individuals belong to species whose larvae prey on aphids , whereas only 0–02 per cent belong to species that feed as larvae on tree sap or rotting wood , neither of which are a feature of gardens . |
| 29 | The theory of differential equations , as usually taught , is a rag-bag of special tricks , many of which are a waste of time and are included only because they can be calculated without having to think about what 's really going on . |
| 30 | And you eat in what is called messes so that you eat in a mess of four and the server comes in and puts a plate of it might be venison and a plate of which is a kind of erm corn and er in front of you . |