Example sentences of "[noun pl] be james [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a student , her favourite subjects were James Joyce and the movies . |
| 2 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | The supreme text of recent years is James Fox 's account of Lord Lucan and his set , with their boffes de politesse . |
| 4 | One of Petiver 's friends was James Sherard ( 1666–1738 ) , brother of the diplomat , William , who did much for botany at Oxford . |
| 5 | One of the main shippers was James Waldie & Sons Ltd. who had been established as coal merchants in 1784 . |
| 6 | The horse was Baron of Buchlyvie , the men were James Kilpatrick and William Dunlop , and the era was that of the heavy horse . |
| 7 | On of his outlets is James Brown Umbrells in the West End . |
| 8 | One of his forebears was James Murray , compiler of the ‘ Oxford English Dictionary ’ , and when Les Murray went to Sydney University in the 1950s he spent his days ingesting the contents of the famous Fisher Library , which was ‘ full of the cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having . ’ |
| 9 | Foremost amongst these ‘ neo-classical/conservative ’ criminologists is James Q. Wilson , whose book Thinking About Crime reached the list of American Best Sellers . |