Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [pron] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Artegall 's ‘ course of Iustice he was forst to stay , /And Talus to reuoke from the right way ’ ( V , XII , 27 ) . |
| 2 | For the first time in her life Horatia was terrified of Rossmayne There was insanity in his eyes , and she knew without a doubt that at that moment he wanted to murder her . |
| 3 | But courts themselves were places of education ; ‘ With the king of England it is school every day ’ , as Peter of Blois remarked . |
| 4 | By 1907 over 93,000 Polish pupils throughout the Prussian east were involved , and even in the normally pacific Polish community of Danzig there were street demonstrations with crowds chanting ‘ Polish children to Polish schools ’ . |
| 5 | The Princess of Wales who 's patron of the national head injuries association Headway , told the conference that adequate resources for rehabilitation were essential . |
| 6 | On 24th September , a Royal Gala Performance of Noel Coward 's Private Lives will be given in aid of the Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Appeal , at the Aldwych Theatre , in the gracious presence of the Princess of Wales who is President of the Royal Marsden Hospital . |
| 7 | South of Leeds it is rhubarb . |
| 8 | United have recruited three new players … who should form the backbone of a new look team … five have gone this summer … all given away except for Robinson who 's career has been finished by injury … |
| 9 | A small show of strength might be called for to teach men like Marsco who is overlord in Ralarth . ’ |
| 10 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |
| 11 | With Toyota it is quality that counts . |
| 12 | A lunch with the Capo dello Squadro Anti-Terrorismo that he had been waiting a year for , a session with a good guy in the Guardia di Finanze , and a squash game with Dieter who was number two to the Legal Attaché , and he just did n't know whether he 'd be back before the Little League All Stars trip to Naples and the game against the Sixth Fleet which was the high point of the season which they played now courtesy of the Italian sunshine into late fall . |
| 13 | There are now several thriving classes int he area and the three still fid time to devote to their other loves — with Moyra it 's golf , Eva windsurfing and Yvonne tennis and badminton . |
| 14 | Corbridge , like Carlisle , lies just behind Hadrian 's Wall on the Stanegate , and as with Carlisle there is difficulty in disentangling the military structures from the civilian . |
| 15 | For McAllister it was torture . |
| 16 | Meditation is that process of mental digestion that gives rise to understanding which integrates the energies of mind and will in a desire for God which is prayer . |
| 17 | During August there was discussion at the UN , THE North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , the Western European Union ( WEU ) and the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) on the practicalities and appropriate scale of any international military intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 18 | Sheila Harrod certainly is … born and bred in Swindon she 's founder and director of the Kentwood Choir , which has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity , her efforts now rewarded with a British empire medal . |
| 19 | In Marrakesh there were work stoppages by post office and junior government clerks , many of them members of the islamic Youth Movement , Wall posters denounced Hassan with a clever play on words : " LE CHIEN RECOIT LE CHAT " ( The dog welcomes the cat-chat sounding very like Shah ) . |
| 20 | ‘ If it rains in Amantani there is food , ’ he says , summing up . |
| 21 | In Waitrose there were Twix bars and Breakaways ; there were chocolate digestives and huge jumbo packets of crisps and giant , plastic bottles of Coca-Cola . |
| 22 | Also in Mansfield there 's improvement work still on Chesterfield Road South and Rosemary Street too . |
| 23 | In Leningrad there was controversy over the introduction of joint militia and army patrols of the city [ see also p. 38013 ] . |
| 24 | ‘ I have heard how in Spain there are beggar children so skilled with the garrotte they can kill a fully grown man in a matter of seconds . |
| 25 | perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and |
| 26 | There are still a quarter of a million unemployed people in Scotland who are testimony to the dreadful human misery caused by over a decade of Tory rule and the terminal decline of the UK economy , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is because it ca n't be a literary point for Joyce or for anyone from Ireland who 's business is words , because language forever figures urgent and personal issues of belonging , of debt , of loss , of freedom and of dependence , because it is and does all this . |
| 28 | In November there was talk of general expectations in the Gulf of higher 1991 revenues ( a 34 per cent increase was the figure advanced ) compared with 1990 . |
| 29 | But in Jaffa it was panic . |
| 30 | In Hampstead she was president of the local committee of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies . |