Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise nothing was changed as a result of being world champion , absolutely nothing … |
| 2 | One of the bonuses of being Magazine Editor is that you get a three minute Pastoral visit once a month . |
| 3 | Steele escaped only weeks ago from Edinburgh prison and turned up in London where he glued himself to the railings at Buckingham Palace to protest his innocence before being re-arrested. escape , Steele telephoned the Daily Record newspaper . |
| 4 | To her dismay , as she pushed open the door of the treatment-room the first person she set eyes on was David Markham . |
| 5 | While the economic forecasts are issued to the business units to be use d in their plans , none of the four planning departments insist that the numbers must be adhered to . |
| 6 | For 1865 only , he was MP for Stoke on Trent , which was near another Beresford estate , and in 1868 fulfilled his ambition to be University Member for Cambridge . |
| 7 | And Capriati admitted she is not prepared to wait for ever to achieve her ambition to be world No 1 . |
| 8 | I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play . |
| 9 | Believing his benefactor to be Miss Havisham , he nourishes a fantasy that she intends him to marry Estella , whom he continues to love passionately , ‘ against reason , against promise , against peace , against hope , against happiness , against all discouragement there could be ’ . |
| 10 | Pc Keith Black went into the toilet with Mr. Smith and they found the figure to be Mr. Thurgood , wearing a T-shirt which fitted the soldiers ' description . |
| 11 | Chains of being Robert Foley |
| 12 | ‘ While I support the building of am ambulance station at Whitehill , I feel that urgent consideration must be given to an emergency unit close by , ’ he said . |
| 13 | He gained a lot of brownie points , for example , when the company announced its record interim losses of £45.1m and then revealed plans to sell off the majority of is leisure division . |
| 14 | Many thanks for concocting a circular for 's Edinburgh week-end . |
| 15 | News Reporter of the Year was Anthony Coppin of the West Lancashire Evening Gazette and the honour of being feature Writer of the Year was shared by Peter Richardson of the Lancashire Evening Post and Diane Robinson of the Manchester Evening News . |
| 16 | And although we 're not so far from here cos we 're this is Newton Road and the next town on er village on is Newton Bromswell . |
| 17 | In other words , there are some activities , which although similar to investment business , are not deemed for the purposes of the Act to be investment business and therefore do not require authorization . |
| 18 | Where these are rising the main stimulus to be motorway development . |
| 19 | The events of 936 and the imperial coronation of 962 bore witness to Otto I 's determination to be Charlemagne redivivus . |
| 20 | The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Sir Brian Fall KCMG to be HM Ambassador to the Russian Federation in succession to Sir Roderic Braithwaite KCMG , who will be retiring from the Diplomatic Service . |
| 21 | The Yanks consider the Chainsaw to be punk rock . |
| 22 | Gemma , in this her last moment of being Miss Dallam , did not notice the stir Linnet was creating and would not have minded if she had . |
| 23 | By doing this , I think players would think twice before pulling out of Tour Events as it could mean the difference of being world number one and world number two , which I believe means a great deal more to them than they would like to admit . |
| 24 | Losing one player does not take a team from being championship contenders to relegation candidates I 'm sure he is , but there is no bottomless pit of money , so certain players may end up being sold . |
| 25 | That community , for historical reasons , happens at the moment to be East Sussex , the whole of East Sussex including Brighton , Eastbourne , Hastings and so on , and a substantial slice of West Sussex , so that our open community courses are available in these areas . |
| 26 | He did not know that ten years would have to run before on 2 July 1976 the National Assembly of the united Socialist Republic of Vietnam endorsed the unification of the nation , proclaiming Saigon to be Ho Chi Minh city . |
| 27 | We have received no convincing answers either from UKOOA or the Government as to the procedure that needs to be observed to ensure that offshore workers not only enjoy the right to be trade union members but can have their trade unions recognised by their employers . |
| 28 | The spectacularly political appointments of the Thatcher years , like sending the right-wing journalist Lord Chalfont to be deputy chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , are outnumbered by the nomination of much more traditional figures . |
| 29 | Mercifully , none could read English , as all our documents showed the Land Rover to be army property . |
| 30 | General practice and primary care need to be centre stage to ensure that the rhetoric of a transfer of resources from secondary to primary care does not actually entail an overall loss of resources . |