Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Richard was during these years of military and diplomatic manoeuvring we do not know , but it is a reasonable guess that he was with his mother , since Aquitaine was her duchy and it was by her wish that it was to be made over to him . |
| 2 | They 're quicker at getting on the backs of their players than Cuntona is onto another player 's wife . |
| 3 | Bee Moore , who worked in Westlands and was a sister of Paccy Moore the shoemaker , had heard that Eve was dead from horrible injuries and that Benny was in such shock she could n't be told . |
| 4 | Moreover , the right hon. Gentleman said in terms that neither Iraq nor Argentina was in any way deterred from attacking British interests by reason of our possession of a nuclear weapon . |
| 5 | He gave the jury a list of Meehan 's past convictions , knowing that he was prevented by the rules of evidence from telling them that Waddell was at that moment serving a sentence in Barlinnie for wounding or that he had served a previous sentence for perjury at Meehan 's trial . |
| 6 | In it he insists that God is in all cases acting through ‘ His minister , Death ’ , even when His intervention appears arbitrary : ‘ entering a careless family , He smites the first-born ; and , as one who will be heard , calls aloud : ‘ Awake thou that sleepest ! ’ |
| 7 | That is to say they believe that God was in some sense differently related to particular events , or may be said in particular to have revealed God 's self through those events , in a way in which this is not true of all other events or periods in history . |
| 8 | Islam would never , of course , suggest that God was in any way a visible object . |
| 9 | ‘ I swear to God that Gabriel was in this room mending the television . |
| 10 | ‘ I had no idea that Mary was on that tack ; she 's a nice girl and she 's had a hard time what with that husband of has and now her father almost bedridden with arthritis . ’ |
| 11 | The attendees were mainly those responsible for the running of large office and retail complexes and several were surprised to discover that Rentokil were into this sector as well . |
| 12 | He had the feeling that Berowne was in some trouble deeper and more subtly disturbing than poison pen messages . |
| 13 | Not that Morrissey is in any danger at the moment . |
| 14 | I agree with you that it 's not feasible that Harley is on some kind of drug — even beta-blockers would n't help a golfer that much . |
| 15 | Exactly what took place , as far as Blake was concerned , during his period of captivity is unclear , but certainly none of his colleagues ever voiced any suspicion that Blake was in any way pro-Communist at the time or afterwards . |
| 16 | She was gone before they could utter a sound and arrived at her own room grinning widely , pleased with herself and only a little upset that Felipe was with that woman . |
| 17 | It thus seems significant that there appears to have been a rumour that Edmund was in some way responsible for the death of Cnut 's father , after issuing a vain warning that tribute should not be levied from his church 's lands . |
| 18 | That is approximately what , exactly the size and the height and everything else that Julie was at that time , is n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ Hmm , I would n't have thought that Luke was in any mood to judge , ’ Rob retorted , ‘ considering that he was frosty-faced for most of the evening . |
| 20 | If Ferguson was in any way troubled by erroneous morning headlines linking him with a £3 million move to England , he showed no outward signs of discomfort . |
| 21 | If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise . |
| 22 | Mr Goodman said if Laganside was in any doubt about the amount of sludge being dropped by the lorries a representative should be sent to watch them driving past . |
| 23 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 24 | Lords Selborne and Blackburn were in both cases . |
| 25 | Unigate and Allied Lyons have now joined Tarmac and Cadbury 's in this respect . |
| 26 | BARNET and Liverpool are among several clubs under investigation over the appearance of black-market tickets for last season 's FA Cup final . |
| 27 | Look , if Lee is in some kind of trouble , I do n't care what it is , I 'm with her . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 29 | The animosity between Stratford and Kilsby was to some extent personal , yet even where it was related to principles , they were set within revealing limits of assumptions , experience and motives . |
| 30 | So even in the first exploratory or formative phase , when human values were largely suppressed , the Cubism of Picasso and Braque was in some ways an expression of the private life and experience of the painter . |