Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not for nothing is water polo an Italian expression to describe business life : the fouls are done with the feet under the water where the umpire can not see them . ’ |
2 | Not for nothing is New York mocked by some as Moscow-on-the-Hudson . |
3 | But the man would could win it for them is Mick Quinn substitute against his old club . |
4 | The only thing that 's really captured the city for me was Dermot Bolger 's novel The Journey Home , which used the city as a backdrop for a universal story . |
5 | Top man for me was Michael Lynagh of Australia with the Western Samoan Steve Bachop next in line . |
6 | her uncle and aunt decided it was time she took a husband , their choice for her being Manfro Draper , a posh-rat like herself . |
7 | The 1633 ‘ Uyttenbogaert ’ fits that bill with the additional advantages of being both a representation of an important figure in Dutch religious history ( although the Rijksmuseum already has a portrait of him by Rembrandt 's contemporary Jacob Backer ) and universally accepted as authentic by the members of the Rembrandt Research Project , some of whom are Rijksmuseum curators . |
8 | Sitting in Pat 's front room , surrounded by her nine Labradors , many of whom are rescue cases themselves , I asked Pat how the charity had been formed and what the situation was at present . |
9 | There are 118 members of the Red Cross in Darlington , 20 of whom are youth members , who are kept constantly busy . |
10 | Politically reliable officers : 97 per cent of whom are Party members in the GDR , 85 per cent in Poland . |
11 | A dies and his next-of-kin begin practising vengeance-magic against a number of suspects one of whom is B. B eventually dies , to the gratification of A's family , who regard his demise as a judgment . |
12 | It was ‘ nothing more than a clearing house for sexually disturbed cranks , the biggest of whom is Emmanuel Petrakis … |
13 | As Murad II happened to be in Serez at the time , de la Broquière and his companions , one of whom was Benedetto Folco da Forli , the ambassador of the Duke of Milan , set out to meet him . |
14 | Fourteen apprentices were trained by him , the most distinguished of whom was Ralph Greatorex [ q.v . ] . |
15 | Many commentators predicted that a majority of women voters , regardless of party loyalty , would be alienated by a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , and that this could damage Bush , who believed that abortion should be available only to rape victims or if the woman 's life was in danger , and whose judicial appointments , the latest of whom was Clarence Thomas , might have created an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court . |
16 | In the 1880s she and her sisters ( one of whom was Constance Garnett , q.v. ) moved to Fitzroy Street , London . |
17 | has been indicted on twelve counts of racketeering , and offering bribes to elected officials to advance the interests of his clients , one of whom was G Tec . |
18 | Candidates from the right-wing extremist National Front ( FN ) came second , ahead of the official RPR candidates ( one of whom was Pierre Botton , Noir 's son-in-law and his former campaign manager , running against Dubernard ) . |
19 | The proceedings were reported to the king himself ; they included accusations of waste against forest landowners , one of whom was Sir William Parr , brother of Catherine Parr . |
20 | People like General Orde Wingate were training men , one of whom was David Patterson , one of our clergy , and Pop helped by writing a book on Burmese for them in case they got separated from their units . |
21 | The DOE sent it out to referees for opinions , one of whom was Steven Jones , who received it on 20 September . |
22 | Before Xuxa 's glitzy reign , TV Globo had a variety show , Balao Magico ( the Magic Balloon ) , compered by four lively children ( one of whom was Mike Biggs , son of Great Train Robber , Ronald Biggs . ) |
23 | He offered to talk to the three Ulster MEPs , one of whom was Mr Ian Paisley , the Democratic Unionists ' leader . |
24 | 38 people were arrested , 16 of whom were women employees , most of them Kurds fleeing from repression in Turkey . |
25 | Many ministers , the most famous of whom were J. Guinness Rogers and A. M. Fairbairn , wrote in the leading monthlies , at least the Liberal ones , and for many years the Congregational minister of Union Chapel , Islington , Henry Allon , edited the much respected British Quarterly Review . |
26 | Each of these representatives , all of whom were personnel directors or senior managers reporting directly to the board , participated in a structured interview ( see Appendix for details ) which focused on the stimuli , dynamics and politics of the change process . |
27 | The freeing of " political " prisoners continued with the release on Oct 10 of a further 21 people , the majority of whom were ANC members , bringing to 60 the total released since August . |
28 | Gastritis with atrophy was present in 11 old subjects , 10 of whom were H pylori positive . |
29 | Early studies supporting this concept were done using suboptimal techniques on small numbers of subjects , most of whom were hospital inpatients or outpatients with a variety of medical conditions , rather than healthy asymptomatic subjects . |
30 | Moreover , much of the work was methodologically flawed by small numbers of subjects , many of whom were hospital patients rather than healthy volunteers . |