Example sentences of "[be] [noun prp] [noun] " 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 | had been Hull University 's social secretary and was a successful agent representing British and international artists . |
| 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 | Other batsmen dismissed frequently by him are Allan Border , Graham Gooch , David Gower and Malcolm Marshall ( all 10 ) , Gordon Greenidge and Zaheer Abbas ( 8 ) , Jeff Dujon , Desmond Haynes , Kim Hughes , Javed Miandad and Vivian Richards ( 7 ) : a distinguished catalogue ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They are Marc Cory and Captain Gordon Lowery . |
| 11 | They are General Pavel Grachev and Mr Andrei Kokoshin , deputy head of the USA–Canada Institute , a prominent think-tank . |
| 12 | The most important exponent of this view has been Michel Foucault ( 1977 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The input ’ bottom ’ layer is called layer 1 , and the output ’ top ’ layer is numbered M. There are Nk nodes in the kth layer . |
| 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 | The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Monsieur Ralemberg , I am Roger Shallot . |
| 28 | His strings are Dean Markley 0.010 to 0.052 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | Through Alumni support staff based at Henley , the Network encourages the development of National Associations in countries where there are Henley students/members . |