Example sentences of "of [noun prp] be " in BNC.

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1 Why should the people of Lambeth be subjected to savage bills because their local authority fails to collect rents , the community charge , and even outstanding rates arrears going back over many years ?
2 The news-stand was not due to open for an hour but after showing his ID card to a guard Benin asked that a copy of Pravda be delivered to his office the moment it arrived .
3 The second is , how can the predominance of Germany be contained ?
4 Why should n't the women of Greenham be treated like the heroines fighting for freedom in Romania ? ’
5 Izetbegovic on Aug. 3 had addressed a letter to the UN Security Council in which he demanded that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be allowed to import arms in order to " achieve the right to individual and collective self-defence " guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter .
6 The meeting was unable to reach a consensus on requests by some members that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be exempt from the arms embargo applied to the area [ see also p. 39240 ] , In a compromise , the final declaration noted these requests and called on the UN Security Council to continue to consider the question .
7 Am I alone in this room , I wonder , in hoping that at the next accession there may also be a coronation in Scotland , that the regalia of Scotland be bestowed on the Sovereign by the ministers of the Church of Scotland , according to the usage of the Scottish coronation service , long ratified by Scottish law ?
8 James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 .
9 Subsequent popes would exercise their right to provide far more often and much more widely than John did , but never again would a king of England be quite so impotent in the choice of his bishops .
10 ( 188 ) You will make the foes of England be sorry you were born .
11 I move that the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the sixteenth of July be signed as a correct record .
12 In which respects should A Present View of Ireland be linked with The Faerie Queene ?
13 Can knowledge about the mechanisms of LTP be exploited to devise rational therapies for neurological disorders such as Alzheimer 's disease ?
14 The government feels this house on the thirty , thirty first of January be approved .
15 How would the House of Commons be affected by the introduction of the STV ?
16 A HIGH COURT judge today ordered that the Marquess of Blandford be freed from jail , where he has served three days of a 112-day sentence for maintenance arrears .
17 Also , wo n't the loss of Batty be liekly to give Steve Hodge a place ?
18 Must the existence of God be probable , or can theism seek to defend its position against the improbability of God 's existence ?
19 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him , how can the love of God be in him ?
20 " In the name of God be it Amen , the xxthe day of the Monthe of Marche the yere of our Lorde after thaccompt of the Churche of Englond Mcccclxxxvijth and the iijde yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Vijth …
21 Forgetting , of course , that our goodbye is a contraction of God be with you which , if uttered in full today , would earn us a rightly deserved raspberry for insincere piety .
22 May the everlasting God shield you East and West and South and wherever you go and the blessing of God be upon us .
23 On 2 November 1836 , a year before the last part of Birds was published , Gould wrote to Jardine of his latest ambition : ‘ Would not a work on the Birds of Australia be interesting ?
24 The blessing of Christ be upon us .
25 Only when this point was clarified would the House of Lords be in a position to decide whether it was possible to construe the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 in accordance with the Directive .
26 Why , he asked , should a man with an instant high profile platform in the House of Lords be allowed to use a TV channel while other less well placed people queue to voice their views .
27 Why , he asked , should a man with an instant high profile platform in the House of Lords be allowed to use a TV channel while other less well placed people queue to voice their views .
28 But how could the warring states of Europe be persuaded to abandon national sovereignty to the degree necessary to make collective security a reality ?
29 proposed that of Droitwich be appointed Auditors at a fee of £850 plus VAT .
30 I went to bed at 3am on 10 April with one question : how could the electorate of Britain be so stupid , once again ?
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