Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] be [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conventional view of Mr Hussein is that his two invasions — of Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990 — were vast and gratuitous mistakes . |
| 2 | And who should Mr Milburn be but your dear Andrew . |
| 3 | Harry Serbronski was after his car hit a telephone pole at 86 miles an hour . ’ |
| 4 | What I gather from the photo reproduced in Il Giornale dell'Arte is that my sin consists of using hanging cloths . |
| 5 | A notable feature of the greenstones which have played such a crucial role in the social life of the New Zealand Maori is that their sources were confined to the South Island , whereas due to the warmer climate and the requirements of important food plants , population was mainly concentrated on the North Island . |
| 6 | But what is especially characteristic of Todi and San Gimignano is that their golden age , their period of most notable prosperity , came to an end about 1300 , so that we can still inspect cities whose walls and public buildings , though there is an element of Etruscan and Roman in many of them , belong above all to the period from 1050 to 1300 . |
| 7 | The thing about John Cleese is that his sincerity is the real him . |