Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [is] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing is water polo an Italian expression to describe business life : the fouls are done with the feet under the water where the umpire can not see them . ’ |
| 2 | Not for nothing is New York mocked by some as Moscow-on-the-Hudson . |
| 3 | But the man would could win it for them is Mick Quinn substitute against his old club . |
| 4 | A dies and his next-of-kin begin practising vengeance-magic against a number of suspects one of whom is B. B eventually dies , to the gratification of A's family , who regard his demise as a judgment . |
| 5 | It was ‘ nothing more than a clearing house for sexually disturbed cranks , the biggest of whom is Emmanuel Petrakis … |
| 6 | Joining us from one of them is Mike Rowbottom . |
| 7 | ( WES ) One of them is Mike Teague , formerly of Gloucester , now playing for Moseley , and adamant he 's not over the hill . |
| 8 | Have to think about it but the name that immediately springs to mind for most of them is Russell Grant . |
| 9 | There are billions of ways of throwing together the bits of Mont Blanc , it might be said , and only one of them is Mont Blanc . |
| 10 | The highest of them is Sgorr Ruadh and the next Maol Chean-dearg , both only fully revealed by walks into the interior of the Forest . |
| 11 | ‘ The one on the left of yours is Mrs Sowerby 's . |
| 12 | The regulators are not left with a free hand as the rules will still have to satisfy statutory purposes , a central part of which is investor protection . |
| 13 | Having lain unnoticed for a number of years , Patinkin 's insights have recently been elaborated and refined in the works of Robert Clower and in the writings of what may loosely be called the French Keynesian School , the most prominent member of which is Edmond Malinvaud ( see Malinvaud , 1980 and 1985 ) . |
| 14 | are at all familiar with that end of the village you will recognize that there are three points of access , one of which is Mr Lingard 's , and as you quite rightly point out is the the bridle track among them . |
| 15 | But the only obvious truth of this kind in the UK has been that foreign supply creates domestic demand , the measure of which is import penetration . |
| 16 | This little village has a number of buildings of note , one of which is Arlington Mill . |
| 17 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 18 | Alternatively , you may be immediately recruited as an established legal assistant ( or senior legal assistant ) through the Civil Service Commission , the address of which is Alencon Link , Basingstoke , Hants , RG21 1JB . |
| 19 | The boy in front of her is chewing gum ; |
| 20 | And despite it 's nonsense lyrics that name-check Betty Boo , Mr Magoo and Major Tom , ‘ Going To Nepal ’ , a heady guitar/pop brew , was inspired by a real life experience . |
| 21 | One of 'em is Pamela Jane . |
| 22 | erm I think the real danger however is that over the next three four five years , erm people all over the world will get into the habit of regarding Britain as an impossibly expensive country to study in , because no other country in the world attempts to charge the full cost of it 's university education in tuition fees , and erm that gradually people will turn elsewhere . |
| 23 | What , a lot of it 's adverts mind lot of adverts in there |
| 24 | It was a far cry from the squalor and grainy reality of It 's Covent Garden premises , or the cosmopolitan chic of Oz in Notting Hill . |
| 25 | TI have accused Dowty of pinching some of it 's strategy ideas . |
| 26 | A P L O statement says , A series of meetings have taken place with the personal blessing of it 's leader Yassa Arafat . |
| 27 | You 'll remember that we had a pilot project in South Oxford Health Centre , Tony is one of the G P's there , I 'm expecting that he 's going to be very positive about this project since we all are , in terms of it 's practice service delivery . |
| 28 | Some of it is 18th-Century material , some of it very recent , and almost 100 pages are devoted to verse , understandably given the editor 's pedigree . |
| 29 | No well some of it is whale oil , particularly those extracted from sperm whales us used in the manufacture of certain expensive lipsticks . |
| 30 | Much of it is media hype . |