Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 " I am Nenna James .
2 Before his reorganisation began , " Kitty " Laidlaw , who had been Allan Hayhurst 's right-hand support for twenty-nine years and had latterly served the BDA in the capacity of administrative Secretary in the office at Carlisle , decided to retire .
3 ‘ I am King Stephen 's sheriff of Shropshire , ’ said Hugh , ‘ and in pursuit of that same errant saint .
4 It says because her boss would of been Kenneth Clarke is it ?
5 All set for a festive lunch at Grampian Transport in Aberdeen are driver Frank Evans and his colleague Neil Warden , who were being served by CCG 's manager , Isobel Walker .
6 Some traditional dates for the cuckoo 's arrival , known as Cuckoo Day , are Sussex April 14 , Hampshire April 15 , Worcestershire April 20 , and Bedfordshire April 21 .
7 The latest victims are Allan Ludman and Nicholas Coch , whose Physical Geology has a slight edge over its competitors in that it includes a series of rather handsome colour plates .
8 Its affiliated DEC and IBM-oriented business are impec Computervertriebs GmbH and Xeltec Computervertriebs GmbH , both of Tuebingen , Germany , Xeltec AG in Buelach , Switzerland and transtec Computers Ltd , Banbury , Oxfordshire .
9 His three consecutive victims , incidentally , had been M. J. K. Smith , Peter Walker and Fred Trueman .
10 Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy .
11 They are Marc Cory and Captain Gordon Lowery .
12 They are General Pavel Grachev and Mr Andrei Kokoshin , deputy head of the USA–Canada Institute , a prominent think-tank .
13 The most important exponent of this view has been Michel Foucault ( 1977 ) .
14 The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses .
15 William was born on Monday 9 April 1849 — the only one not to bear a middle Christian name , but then , of course , there had been William Titfords galore back to the 17th century , so the boy was in good company .
16 An important influence here has been William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) which abandons linear sequence in favour of smaller episodes often beginning with pastiches of other texts ( detective novels of the 1940s , film-scripts , etc. ) which are then broken down .
17 Another had been William Temple , Butler 's necessary ally in the passing of his Act .
18 ( One member of the Silverlock family married Matilda de Langford , whose first husband had been William de Mohun — see page 28 . )
19 In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings .
20 In Kent , Edward IV 's sheriff had been William Haute , brother of the arrested Richard Haute , and he was now replaced by Sir Henry Ferrers of Peckham , a former servant of Edward IV and a nephew of William lord Hastings .
21 Further documentary evidence of his life and work is scanty , but because his will is listed with those in the parish of St Sepulchre , just outside the walls of the City , it has been suggested that his father may have been William Larkin , the host of the Rose inn in that parish .
22 First founded in 1514 , the most famous pupil to date has been William Wilberforce , the slave law reformer .
23 A key figure in the conspiracy was alleged to have been William Casey .
24 Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills .
25 Berhtfrith praefectus , almost certainly the Berhtfrith who fought on Osred 's side at Bamburgh and who later spoke in favour of a settlement with Wilfrid at the council on the Nidd ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) , perhaps also a kinsman of Berhtred , son of Beornhaeth , was involved in a conflict in 711 in what had been Manau Gododdin between the Rivers Avon and Carron when the Picts were defeated ( HE V , 24 ; ASC D , s.a. 710 ; AU s.a. 710 : AT p. 222 ) .
26 His strings are Dean Markley 0.010 to 0.052 .
27 ‘ The person in New York you sent a letter to on Beatrix 's behalf-could her name have been van Ryneveld rather than van Ryan ? ’
28 It could have been Dan Dare in the nursing home .
29 ‘ I am Domino Mei-Ling . ’
30 One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last .
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