Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last two groups to perform are from Donegal and Leitrim . |
| 2 | The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay . |
| 3 | So for now , the only music these hops are going to hear is from David . |
| 4 | a lot about it and sha n't be , frankly I 'm relieved I do n't actually know a lot but when the meeting to discuss what we 're supposed to do is on December tenth yo so I 'm a bit torn cos I in a way that 's what I ought to be doing even though the welfare business in a way that 's wh that 's what I ought to be doing cos it 's entirely . |
| 5 | Ekoku was reported to have been at Carrow Road last night for talks over a possible £700,000 transfer before the transfer deadline this afternoon . |
| 6 | While visiting France the princess has been ‘ amused and smiling ’ about a sensational tape recording of a phone call said to have been between Charles and Camilla during which he said : ‘ I love you . |
| 7 | A point worthy of comment is that the settlement grew up mostly in the north-east quadrant of the main road junction ; the western boundary seems to have been along Ryknild Street , since a large cemetery was situated immediately across it . |
| 8 | It was bought by Baron Meyer de Rothschild for Mentmore before 1860 , and is known to have been in Palazzo Manfrini , Venice , by the 1850s . |
| 9 | By virtue of this , there does not appear to have been in Ireland any large-scale persecution of heretics . |
| 10 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 11 | Aethelwald Moll , who became king of Northumbria in 759 , may have been of Deiran royal descent ; his power-base certainly seems to have been in Deira ( see below , p. 150 ) . |
| 12 | By late March 1019 he is likely to have been in Winchester : S 956 was granted in the royal presence to the New Minster during the first week of Easter , and has a long witness list which no doubt represents the gathering of the Easter court . |
| 13 | The outstanding cathedral of the period to survive is at Lund , in Skåne , which was begun about 1080 . |
| 14 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 15 | The furthest anyone has had to travel was to Los Angeles and back , all in forty-eight hours , to persuade the reclusive Harrison Ford to appear on the show . |