Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not have to correspond with the aesthetic merit of the work as a whole : the opening of David Copperfield is in many respects more like the Class 1 sample than the Class 2 sample above . |
| 2 | Richard Eaton was in this car . |
| 3 | This time Miss Havisham was in another room , which I had not seen before . |
| 4 | As a result Camberwell was at this time one of the most fertile art schools in Britain . |
| 5 | When Justine Moritz was in this prison , the world outside had prejudged her before her trial . |
| 6 | And we have heard that Del Curb was on that planet , along with numerous evil people who seek the phetam Now all the evil ones seem to be on Uulaa , pursuing Del Curb , As are we . ’ |
| 7 | The office of Earl Marshal was to all intents and purposes the heritable property of the Howard family , although it was lost to them for several decades after the attainder of the fourth Duke of Norfolk in 1572 . |
| 8 | This institution for the higher education of deaf students in Washington DC was at that time unique in the world and has remained so since its inauguration in 1864 . |
| 9 | Our colonies out in Alpha Centauri are in enough trouble without vital food and medicines being hijacked . |
| 10 | At home Leeds were in more trouble with the authorities , this time over a dispute with Fulham . |
| 11 | Fifteen days later , while on convoy patrol over the North Sea , Sgt Smith was in another air fight . |
| 12 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't know Mr Jacobsen was in this play until I arrived here today . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Gentlemen , I know some may suspect Mr Quinn was in some way involved in the death of Simon Cormack . |
| 15 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 16 | Robert Indiana was in many ways a pioneer in the use of words as the chief subject matter for art , making what you read just as important as what you ‘ see ’ . |
| 17 | Mr Cubbage was by this time almost demented , he had to know Coleen 's decision , so he wrote an impassioned letter begging her to accept his proposal of marriage . |
| 18 | I went oftener to Uncle Geordie 's by that time and sometimes I missed Uncle Bill if he came to see Dad and Ma on a Saturday night . |
| 19 | Sheila Hancock was in that film too , as was Nanette Newman , both of whom told me how Ken would while away his time discussing the medical advances of which apparently the medical staff in the picture were not aware . |
| 20 | In contrast , Britain and the United States are among those countries cited as exhibiting a strong allegiant orientation . |
| 21 | As far as Gloucester was concerned , it was a recognition of the fact that the north had now emerged as his main sphere of interest , and his surrender of land in East Anglia was to some extent the corollary of the consolidation of his northern interests which was taking place in the same year . |
| 22 | As far as Gloucester was concerned , it was a recognition of the fact that the north had now emerged as his main sphere of interest , and his surrender of land in East Anglia was to some extent the corollary of the consolidation of his northern interests which was taking place in the same year . |
| 23 | The crowds who gathered on Alexanderplatz and then moved off on a winding trail through East Berlin were in any case convinced he was their man . |
| 24 | He knew that Katelina van Borselen was in this city , along with the sister 's son of Simon , her husband , while alone in Nicosia was Primaflora , the lovely woman Nicholas had taken in marriage after Marian , the simple widow who had founded his fortune . |
| 25 | The uninscribed tombstone from Murrell Hill is of some interest since it shows in relief a mother dressed in a tunic and seated in an upright chair , while holding an opened fan in her right hand . |
| 26 | Thomas de Quincey was by any standards a sensitive little boy ; when he was nearly seven , his much loved elder sister , Elizabeth , died . |
| 27 | Rebecca hesitated , remembering that Mary Poppins was on that evening . |
| 28 | St Augustines and St Bedes were in any case , top of the original submission list of 25 projects . |
| 29 | Neither Philippe Séguin nor Philippe de Villier is in any sense a ‘ flash in the pan ’ . |
| 30 | The number of voters missing in the Labour seats held by Ms Diane Abbott and Mr Brian Sedgemore is in each case about twice the size of their majority . |