Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small it is in this poore sort |
| 2 | When Frodo passes it to Gandalf so that its identity can be confirmed , ‘ It felt suddenly very heavy , as if either it or Frodo himself was in some way reluctant for Gandalf to touch it ’ ( I , 58 , my italics ) . |
| 3 | Three years later , in 1638 , Laud arranged for him to become Rector of Uppingham , in Rutland , and a chaplain to King Charles I. It was at this time that Taylor made his first marriage , to the sister of one of his Cambridge pupils . ’ |
| 4 | and then you see Adam he 's in these chairs , with his arms like that yeah and he 's kneeling down yeah and and it 's really good graphics yeah and then you see them outside |
| 5 | all these drugs he 's been having , so they gave him some er tablets and er , he said on Sunday he was in such pain , so he said try these , he has given me some before , but er , you 're supposed to take two and I was only taking one |
| 6 | The idea that God is good might owe a great deal in those traditions to a view that God has done good things in the world Himself — that God Himself is in some way an actor on the world stage . |
| 7 | The more she tries to fix her heart on God who is beyond all man can think and desire , the more she encounters an inner darkness which has " of knowyng ne felyng of loue ne likyng " ( 52.324b. – 124 ) . |
| 8 | Similarly for Locke we 're in this world , sent by God about his business , the business is , in very general terms , to flourish and multiply this means , well that is the reason why we have certain rights , the right to life , the right to liberty , the right to property because if we did n't have these rights we could n't fulfil that obligation . |
| 9 | He had been invited on the recommendation of Alan Mackenzie who was at that time Chaplain Secretary to the Salisbury Diocesan Association for the Deaf , of which Viscount Cranbourne was an active member . |
| 10 | The first time I saw Mrs Colonel Goreng she was in that jeep . |
| 11 | In Europe it is of most value as an indication of commitment in Free Churches , especially where the membership roll is kept up to date . |
| 12 | There is no means of knowing how near to the regularised life of Thurgarton he was at this date . |
| 13 | Not that the Regent himself was in any way offended by the new arrival 's immediacy and frank speaking . |
| 14 | ‘ Every time I see you , with young Radcliffe you 're in each other 's arms ! ’ |
| 15 | It concerned Lord Alfred Douglas who was on this occasion accompanied by Gide ( but not Wilde , who had returned to England ) and a boy called Ali with whom , according to Gide , Douglas was in love . |
| 16 | Laura herself was in any case developing more pronounced tendencies against commercialism . |
| 17 | There 's a fellow called Peter Fallon who 's behind this thing . |
| 18 | The VEC relented but , with such short notice , the DUC was able to obtain only one speaker , Dr Robert Blackith , a zoologist from Trinity College , Dublin who was at that stage a veteran anti-nuclear speaker and campaigner . |
| 19 | As a result of a visit to Ruthenia in 1939 on behalf of the Evening Standard during which she was briefly imprisoned , she met and married the then notorious journalist Claud Cockburn who was at that time producing his one-man newsletter The Week . |
| 20 | And yet for all her beaten and pathetic appearance it seemed to Creggan there was in this eagle Slorne 's eyes something that Creggan saw nowhere else in the Cages at that moment : purpose . |