Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun sg] [be] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You may be familiar with those sorts of stories which say my convent life was hell with the Sisters of Mercy er that kind of story about er church organisations that absolute not to show er Christian qualities in the way that they are organised is quite true that often Christian organisations do find it hard to show forgiveness .
2 My home club is Coombe Hill in Kingston , Surrey , and I play off a handicap of 17 .
3 My home town is Cambridge but I 'm moving closer to the east coast all the time and presently live just off the A45 between Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket .
4 The present incumbent of my dream house is Mr F. D. H. Roe , Fishery Manager , who maintains the friendly traditions of his predecessor , offering useful advice to visitors regarding fishing techniques .
5 My telephone number is Brighton six oh six seven double five .
6 Yeah , my room number 's O O three in the big one .
7 My patron saint was Saint Jude , the patron of lost causes .
8 But my pet hate is woodwork joinery .
9 My Visa number is expiry date 09/94 .
10 Er my start point is P P G twelve , which in er paragraph six point four sets out the reconciliation of the er development , er economic , social , and environmental er priorities in preceding two strategies for a structure plan .
11 My saving grace was poverty .
12 My state pension is £57.60 per week and I have a pension of £360.95 per month from my former employers .
13 My project coordinator is Mr X , and then we 've got the point of contact established straight away .
14 My tap water is pH 7–7.5 , what pH and hardness is required ?
15 Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was .
16 My starting point is Christ .
17 Christine says her blood pressure is O K , all 's well then .
18 Its data base is documents , records of conversations among the team , and interviews with the experts who participated in the programme .
19 Born in 1979 her butterfat output was 1,794kg and protein 1,434 and she has recorded a life-time milk yield is almost 140,000 litres .
20 on the eve of their wedding her wedding veil is rent by an intruder , who Rochester assures her is a servant Grace Poole but who is the next day revealed to be his mad Creole wife Bertha , confined to the upper regions of the hall for years , whose unseen presence has long disturbed Jane .
21 That Superbrain with a quarter megabyte of memory has only a finite life and then any records and software dedicated to its operating system is material for the e-paleographers .
22 Today DFDS TRANSPORT is an international transport and forwarding organisation and although its home market is Europe the company can offer door-to-door transport to deep sea destinations for its own NVOCC-Service and as liner representative for international shipping companies such as CMA , Eimskip , Atlantic Cargo Services , Rosa Line and Hyundai Merchant Marine Co .
23 Its parent company is Danisco , Denmark 's largest sugar producer .
24 Their shopping basket was £2.43 cheaper than in Sainsbury 's , and £2.46p cheaper than in Tesco 's .
25 Pace makers over their home course were Belvoir , their four best cards totalling 302 as Shandon Park , many times winners of this All-Ireland tournament , slipped in only one stroke behind at 303 .
26 It has been pointed out , for instance , that in 1983 the largest 70 British manufacturing multinationals had a foreign output of around £100 billion , whereas their home production was £70 billion .
27 Their home record is W 10 , D2 , L 0 .
28 Its selling point is portability : it will fit into the palm of a hand .
29 So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’
30 Their tax base is employment incomes .
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