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

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1 Mr Brendan Finucane , who prosecuted in the Aberdour trial , told the hearing that Gray posed as a Mr Edouards and contacted the foundation , based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Bloomsbury , London , where Aberdour was deputy director .
2 ( The nylon-for-acrylics swap with Du Pont , despite the fact that ICI was world number four in nylon , was one result . )
3 Although Chiesa was campaign director for the Socialist leader Bettino Craxi , the party was quick to expel him , and denied any knowledge of his illicit dealings .
4 ‘ I honestly believe that Lee is England material .
5 By the time that Kinnock was party leader such rhetoric had become an embarrassing youthful memory .
6 At the end of the seventeenth century Celia Fiennes enthused that Chesterfield 's Saturday market was ‘ like some little faire , a great deal of corne and all sorts of ware and fowles ’ .
7 FORMER Belfast Telegraph journalist and Ireland 's Saturday Night columnist Gerald Rafferty has died suddenly , aged 68 .
8 On that occasion Adrian represented England and Ray was team manager .
9 King Kurgan presented Sigmar with a crown made by Alaric the Mad , and Sigmar was crown Emperor by the Priest of Ulric .
10 Among their other responsibilities , Donne was steward of Kidwelly and an esquire of the king 's body ; Huntley was one of the duchy of Lancaster receivers in Wales ; and Milewater was receiver general of the duchy lands in south Wales and the march .
11 Among their other responsibilities , Donne was steward of Kidwelly and an esquire of the king 's body ; Huntley was one of the duchy of Lancaster receivers in Wales ; and Milewater was receiver general of the duchy lands in south Wales and the march .
12 The Halcrow Report commissioned by the DoE pointed out in 1988 that up to 8,000 people around Luton and Dunstable were drinking water with these solvents at four times the World Health Organisation 's maximum recommended level , while about 80,000 drank water with trichlorethylene at 150 per cent of the limit .
13 Mind I think er M and Ms is rubbishy. quarter past .
14 For example , 52 per cent of the trees planted by the FC in Scotland and Wales are Sitka spruce ( Picea sitchensis ) which is not a native British species .
15 But Rufus is Area Commander now .
16 But Tuesday mornings were different , because Tuesday was music day .
17 The policeman 's wife was Fairley 's niece and the couple had put him up while Fairley was house hunting in London .
18 When Cicero was quae stor for Syracuse
19 As long as Shaftesbury was lord president of the council he found no difficulty in reconciling his loyalties , and even after that earl 's dismissal in October 1679 , he was used , following an hour 's private conversation with the king alone in the royal bedchamber , in trying to bring Charles and the earl together again .
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