Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the war was over Davis returned to the stage , refusing to submit to performing Al Jolson-caricatures or being the submissive Negro to the bigoted entrepreneurs . |
| 2 | TAP ( Training Access Points ) systems of user-friendly computer terminals located in libraries , shopping centres , careers offices and businesses — has been taken over by the TEC and is the focal point of a marketing campaign to extend career opportunities . |
| 3 | ( Most of those lie off the minute sheikdom of Brunei and are the personal property of the Sultan , who is in consequence the world 's richest man . |
| 4 | I was born in Nottinghamshire and was the third of five sons . |
| 5 | It represents the logical conclusion to preceding buildings and is the expression of national culture ; it stands for the essence of Muscovite Christianity in Russia and was the last great church of the movement in this architectural form . |
| 6 | As early as 1805 Lorenzo Dow visited England and was the first of those many American evangelists committed to ‘ saving Britain ’ . |
| 7 | The Hotel de France is situated between the two resorts of Rimini and Riccione and is the only three-star hotel in Rimini featured by Citalia which stands right on the beach , but also has its own private swimming pool . |
| 8 | He was jealous of Yolande and was the only person with the King when he died . |
| 9 | The appointment of Sukhozanet distressed him , but he served as Bariatinskii 's chief of staff in the Caucasus and was the real architect of his triumph . |
| 10 | Our TEC , which is one of 82 in the country , is chaired by David Houghton , who lives in my constituency in Shrewsbury but is the managing director of GKN Sankey , one of the larger manufacturing employers in the constituency of the hon. Member for The Wrekin ( Mr. Grocott ) . |
| 11 | The accounts , which have been audited represent the CIT in the UK and are the first accounts of the Limited company . |
| 12 | This quake happened in Tangshan province in north-east China and is the only one ever known to have occurred in a really densely populated area , in this case involving the major cities of Peking and Tientsin . |
| 13 | AMP has approximately 30 per cent of the life insurance and superannuation markets in Australia and is the largest manager of private retirement funds in that country and New Zealand . |
| 14 | Milano , sponsored by media magnate Berlusconi , are coached by Mark Ella and are the current title holders . |
| 15 | It involved about a dozen groups and a network of experts throughout Europe and is the largest future study of biotechnology that I am aware of . |
| 16 | AMDEA represents about 90 per cent of the companies that make domestic electrical equipment in Britain and was the first trade association to draw up a code of practice approved by the OFT . |
| 17 | Rubble ( E7 6a 6a 5a ) climbs the true line of the Concrete Chimney in Gogarth 's Wen Zawn and was the inspired ( deranged ? ) work of Paul Pritchard and Leigh McGinley . |
| 18 | DAMON Hill saw his late father Graham 's Monaco Grand Prix record broken by Ayrton Senna but was the first to congratulate the Brazilian despite his own personal disappointment of being beaten into second place . |
| 19 | F/O Pickard , a US citizen who coincidentally had worked on the carrier in the US before joining the ATA , recognized the vessel at Glasgow and was the first of those involved to identify it as VF-7 ( USS Wasp ) . |
| 20 | THE colony 's commissioner of banking will continue to regulate Hongkong & Shanghai , but the Bank of England will supervise Midland and be the enlarged group 's lead regulator . |
| 21 | were originally grown in Greece and are the dried fruits of the ‘ Corinth ’ grape , a small , black , seedless variety . |
| 22 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 23 | Pneumonia accounts for over one million hospital admissions annually in the USA and is the eighth leading cause of death . |
| 24 | She had even taken a small part at a provincial theatre until pregnancy again intervened , and had found that she was not forgotten , that Dinah Asshe could become Dinah Arkwright and be the same woman . |