Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , Britain and the United States are among those countries cited as exhibiting a strong allegiant orientation . |
| 2 | If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise . |
| 3 | Stein-am-Rhein is in some ways a reproduction of all that is wonderful about Schaffhausen , but with enough added subtleties to give it an identity of its own . |
| 4 | Housmans considers that building a property in Portugal is in many cases cheaper than buying one . |
| 5 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |
| 6 | Along the Cumberland coast an industrial fringe was already well established , based on deposits of coal and iron ore : Whitehaven was in those days an important port . |
| 7 | Where Richard was during these years of military and diplomatic manoeuvring we do not know , but it is a reasonable guess that he was with his mother , since Aquitaine was her duchy and it was by her wish that it was to be made over to him . |
| 8 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 9 | Lords Selborne and Blackburn were in both cases . |
| 10 | Li Yuan is not to know , but I want us to know where Kim is at all times . |
| 11 | But despite her impeccable bed-cred , Karen was in most respects a very conventional person compared to someone like Manuela . |
| 12 | I know Sibelius is in many ways a very different composer from Bruckner , but I remember you suggesting that there are for you affinities between them . |
| 13 | The USSR is by most standards a highly militarised society ; in common with militarist movements of previous eras , the CPSU considers war to be the ultimate test for society and regards peace as a pre-war period . |
| 14 | The club was a meeting place for musicians of his era , and Archer Street was for many years the centre of the British dance music business . |
| 15 | Coleridge was in many ways far ahead of his time . |
| 16 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 17 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
| 18 | Fifty-one-year-old Kenny was among those men last week . |
| 19 | My relationship with Marcia Williams was at all times rather chilly . |
| 20 | BARNET and Liverpool are among several clubs under investigation over the appearance of black-market tickets for last season 's FA Cup final . |
| 21 | There was a strict system of career development at Cadbury 's in those days . |
| 22 | Leda Collor de Mello said that her son Pedro was suffering from a " severe emotional crisis " , and removed him as the director of the family 's media empire , whose pre-eminence in the north-eastern state of Alagoas was in some quarters reported as being threatened by business activities of Farias . |
| 23 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is who he says he is , because he is who he used to be , because Dudley Moore is to all intents and purposes Dudley Moore , actor , musician , mascot , clown , then there are a few details and descriptions and facts and figures that have to be mentioned . |
| 24 | It is a work of deep inwardness , where the presence of God in all creatures makes external worship and scriptural authority superfluous : ‘ God is in all Creatures , Man and Beast , Fish and Fowle , and every green thing , from the highest Cedar to the Ivey on the wall ; and that God is the life and being of them all . ’ |
| 25 | In it he insists that God is in all cases acting through ‘ His minister , Death ’ , even when His intervention appears arbitrary : ‘ entering a careless family , He smites the first-born ; and , as one who will be heard , calls aloud : ‘ Awake thou that sleepest ! ’ |
| 26 | Crookes was in many ways unlike other English men of science . |
| 27 | Texas-based Enron said Teesside was among several sites it may consider if it goes ahead with plans to build a new petrochemical plant in Europe . |
| 28 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 29 | Thomas de Quincey was by any standards a sensitive little boy ; when he was nearly seven , his much loved elder sister , Elizabeth , died . |
| 30 | Iraq was for some years generally regarded as possessing air superiority , although this was not translated into any particular battlefield advantage . |