Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he accords them the right to boast , for they have returned with money and presents which are proof of their achievement . |
| 2 | Work like the Peplos kore ( fig. 39 ) , Exekias 's neck-amphora ( fig. 55 ) or the Vix krater ( fig. 58 ) show archaic Greek art in its assured prime : craftsmen who are masters of their craft can develop their styles and express what they want happily within the general limitations of inherited convention . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 5 | Can I ask a question please , who will determine what is the most important work which is part of our promise , list |
| 6 | The further north we reached the more weird and wonderful floating contraptions we encountered , merchant ships converted to drilling barges , special pipe-laying barges which were mini-townships within themselves with populations of up to 200 crewmen . |
| 7 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
| 8 | I think we call er the volunteers , or those who run the shops anyway , Sally 's Army and that is in my way a tribute to Sally Barker who 's chairman of our branches advisory committee and does so much to make sure that the money does get raised in the field . |
| 9 | At The American College in London you earn more than a degree — you receive an education with a career focus and individual attention from faculty who are professionals in their fields . |
| 10 | N.B. While every effort is made to teach each of the courses listed as available for the taught postgraduate degrees in the Faculty of Law there are circumstances in which this may not prove possible . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State for Education and Science has referred to LEAs ' and schools ' ‘ important responsibility to work towards the promotion of equality of opportunity for the different ethnic groups who are part of our national life ’ . |
| 12 | Buildings which were evidence of its 900 years history have disappeared and their places taken by unremarkable retail stores and car parks so that several references to streets and buildings in the book are difficult to follow . |
| 13 | And on the other hand the less litigious masses among the laity who are complicit in their belief in the universality of these legal symbols . |
| 14 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 15 | The boy was shaking , and when he looked up at Rory there were tears in his eyes . |
| 16 | At the moment there are difficulties for everybody . |
| 17 | For a moment there is indecision among them . |
| 18 | For a long moment there was silence between them as she stared unseeingly down at her own hand caught in his surprisingly tender grasp . |
| 19 | For a brief moment there was recognition in his eyes and he reached for he hand , pulling back before the contact was made . |
| 20 | At this point there is need for me to give some detail about the shape and nature of the primary curriculum to which all children should have access . |
| 21 | Oh , it is the landscape gardeners and a very nice job they 're doing of it . |
| 22 | Yes at the moment he 's sort of he he 's the lone ranger is n't he Collimore . |
| 23 | With his few belongings it was home to him wherever he went . |
| 24 | After six years it was time for me to move on to Debenham High School . |
| 25 | Catherine Somerville brings to her work a wide experience of people and places and a dramatic sense of colour which is combines with her ability as a draughtswoman . |
| 26 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 27 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 28 | controls those authorised persons who are members of it by requiring them to comply with the rules of the organisation . |
| 29 | controls those authorised persons who are members of it . |
| 30 | When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked . |