Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |
| 2 | From 1851 to 1881 he was professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College London , and although he influenced the earliest microscopical investigations of Joseph ( later first Baron ) Lister [ q.v. ] , |
| 3 | Yeah that 's what I was thinking it 's funny it 's sort of Christmas makes everything better or worse . |
| 4 | 12 It is 1,280km from Freeport to Santo Domingo . |
| 5 | For some it is cows in flowering meadows , for others , cars and cheap central heating ; and for the great majority , both . |
| 6 | it well it 's it 's lost some it 's style by |
| 7 | In 1947–8 he was chief of staff , Western Command ; in 1949–50 he was again employed , briefly , on secret planning ; and he retired in 1951 . |
| 8 | The rate poundage is set by local councils and for Oxford in 1989–90 it is 291.1p in the pound . |
| 9 | As such it is part of the legacy of a long tradition of humanist thought which stretches back to fifth-century BC Greece when the first decisive steps towards modern secularism were taken . |
| 10 | About 1256–7 he was lector at the Cambridge convent ( Thomas Eccleston , q.v. , De Adventu Fratrum Minorum , ed . |
| 11 | From 1673 to 1677 he was MP for Newark , but he did not sit . |
| 12 | From 1977 to 1979 he was chairman of the Food $ Drink Industries Council . |
| 13 | In 1586 he was recorder of the similarly Protestant borough of Maldon . |
| 14 | From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history . |
| 15 | ‘ I was glad I was part of a different shift . |
| 16 | In 1904 she was president of the Women 's Local Government Society . |
| 17 | From 1928 to 1932 he was attorney-general to the prince of Wales . |
| 18 | When Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge in 1975 he was head of the party , and known as ‘ Brother Number One ’ . |
| 19 | Come the Seventies it was time for a rethink . |
| 20 | In 1969 he was Polonius in the Roundhouse , prior-to-Broadway , Hamlet , before returning to the RSC in 1972 and making his National Theatre debut in 1974 . |
| 21 | From 1958 to 1960 he was chairman of the faculty board of history and from 1962 to his death he was chairman of the governors of the Cambridge Institute of Education . |
| 22 | In 1918–19 he was chairman of the inter-allied conference on standardization of aircraft components and deputy member of the munitions council . |
| 23 | In 1984-86 he was Minister for the Economy , Finance and Budget , a post he resumed when the PS returned to government in 1988 . |
| 24 | You , when you rang the other night you , you did sound like Jackie , I 'm sure you were Jackie on the phone , and with her not living here very long |
| 25 | From 1913 to 1918 she was secretary of the Women 's Labour League , and strongly defended the need for separate women 's political organizations , at least until women had acquired political experience and maturity comparable with that of men . |
| 26 | From 1915 to 1922 she was chairman of the Women 's International League for Peace , which aimed to harness feminism to the peace movement ; and throughout World War I she campaigned for a negotiated peace and the establishment of an international peace-keeping organization . |
| 27 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 28 | Executive Job Clubs have been set up , but for many they are havens of retreat where preconceptions can be themselves an obstacle to the need for change . |
| 29 | Well I looked at that and I thought I thought well I 'm , I 'm sure it 's quarter to and checked on mine . |
| 30 | I 'm not sure it 's love at all — but we 're very good friends . ’ |