Example sentences of "of [noun prp] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Speech Court ’ in the Forest of Dean is still scheduled to be held every forty days , but the verderers ' sittings are formal , and their court is usually adjourned until there is sufficient business . |
| 2 | Crowe 's long-standing ambition to secure the lease of the royal ironworks in the Forest of Dean was finally rewarded in 1635 when he and his partners obtained the lease after the existing lessees had fallen foul of the royal forest jurisdiction . |
| 3 | PRI victories in the gubernatorial elections held in the northern states of Tamaulipas and Sinaloa and the central state of Puebla were fiercely disputed . |
| 4 | The Duke of Northumberland was unanimously chosen to be president . |
| 5 | He could see with half an eye that the kid 's aunt was going to be one of the confident , bossy , well-connected women with whom that part of Cambridgeshire was substantially over-provided . |
| 6 | A second round of PCR was then used to generate the PCR products shown in Fig. 5 a and discussed in the text . |
| 7 | The Duke of Wellington was happily seated between two attractive young ladies , while Lucille found herself between d'Alembord and a Dutch gunner colonel who complained about the victory eggs , refused the soup , and said the bread was too hard . |
| 8 | Since early February oyster-catchers had been arriving back from spending the winter around the big estuaries of mainland Britain and by the end of March were well distributed in coastal areas . |
| 9 | in the eastern parts of this county Your Majesty 's forests of Windsor are particularly burdened with the innumerable increase of deer , which if they shall go on so fast , in ten years more will neither leave food nor room for any other creature in the forests . |
| 10 | The site of acetylation of 5-ASA was widely assumed to be the liver , but it has recently been shown that the human colonic epithelial cell is capable of acetylating 5-ASA , and that N-acetyltransferase activity is present in the cytosol . |
| 11 | The northern lands of Kislev were quickly overwhelmed . |
| 12 | AZT which is sold under the trade name of Retrovir was once thought to offer real hope to people carrying the HIV virus . |
| 13 | A crucial stage in the reign of Offa was certainly reached in 784–5 when he intervened again in Kent , this time decisively . |
| 14 | that 's what I said to Ron , I mean I 've never known I ca n't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood ! |
| 15 | The neighbouring city of Napier was entirely rebuilt after an earthquake in 1931 and this is not only a feature of the museum but many of the buildings are still in the style of the period , Art Deco . |
| 16 | It would be unfair to the House to spend hours reeling off reams of statistics but , so that the picture of Shrewsbury is fully painted , I must tell the House that in 1983 there were 1,334 long-term unemployed people . |
| 17 | Books are at the heart of long-lived auction businesses : Sotheby 's started with books in the eighteenth century , and the first founders of Christie 's also auctioned off famous libraries such as that of Dr Johnson in 1785 . |
| 18 | It took all the strength of Perdita 's frantically squeezing legs to stop her ducking out . |
| 19 | Five hundred people are killed annually in Scotland alone and the Lothian branch of ROSPA are currently running ‘ better driving ’ courses every Wednesday evening . |
| 20 | Depends what you mean by ‘ weather ’ , but yes , the countryside of Sussex is constantly suffering the attack of rain and the rain either has to soak into the ground where very often it erm dissolves material and eventually finds its way to rivers so that all rivers are carrying material from inland in solution out to the sea , or if erm you get very heavy rain , then the water actually runs off the surface of the ground , and as it runs off it will carry particulate material out into the rivers and then out to sea . |
| 21 | A more generous side of Taylor was also shown in the sermon , when he referred to Parliament 's task of making a political settlement after Ireland 's religious and civil wars . |
| 22 | Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second . |
| 23 | The road continues on a switchback course , reaching more open ground with wider views and , after a few more miles that seem to be leading nowhere , arrives at the top of a hill where the cottages of Arnisdale are suddenly revealed around a bay ahead . |
| 24 | The thought of Montaine was so arresting that for a moment he could not speak . |
| 25 | It was not Christie alone who saw the connections between peripheral military patronage and profit , and offers of minor posts about the Castle of Stirling were often considered worth making by politicians soliciting the town 's vote . |
| 26 | The vineyards of Villers-Marmery are well placed on the eastern slopes of the Montagne de Reims , between those of Verzy to the north and Trépail to the south . |
| 27 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 28 | Though most of the negotiations of 1558 – 59 which culminated in the peace of Cateau-Cambrésis were still conducted in Latin it is clear that French was also extensively used . |
| 29 | Sons of Harras were also imported to the USA and they also proved of great importance . |
| 30 | Thus , a language teacher who has qualified to teach in the Federal Republic of Germany is already regarded as having ‘ qualified teacher status ’ ( QTS ) here and can apply for teaching posts in UK schools . |