Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 of all grey geese identified in Sussex are of this species .
2 However , only about twenty per cent of residential homes in Flanders are of this type ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) .
3 This paper will consider the issue in the context of community work , in which the elements accentuated by Rothman are of less consequence and client participation has indisputably remained a primary value .
4 In contrast , Britain and the United States are among those countries cited as exhibiting a strong allegiant orientation .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Salmon , who was an intimate friend of Picasso 's at this time , described a few years later his restless state of mind : ‘ Picasso was unsettled .
8 The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos .
9 The uninscribed tombstone from Murrell Hill is of some interest since it shows in relief a mother dressed in a tunic and seated in an upright chair , while holding an opened fan in her right hand .
10 Housmans considers that building a property in Portugal is in many cases cheaper than buying one .
11 They 're quicker at getting on the backs of their players than Cuntona is onto another player 's wife .
12 Napoleon was at this time trying to push the Russians into war with Turkey , and Czartoryski , aware of this , had no wish to see Russia involved on Serbia 's side in a conflict with the sultan .
13 And we have heard that Del Curb was on that planet , along with numerous evil people who seek the phetam Now all the evil ones seem to be on Uulaa , pursuing Del Curb , As are we . ’
14 Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms .
15 Charles Laughton was on this morning at nine twenty five .
16 Since Hill was at that time one of the most popular comedy stars in the world , one might have imagined that the company 's duty to its shareholders was to maximise profits .
17 you know the way Andrea was at that age ?
18 Gorbachev was at this time on an official visit to West Germany , which was curtailed somewhat in view of domestic developments .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 David was on that tape
23 Ken was without any response at all .
24 Richard Eaton was in this car .
25 The limitations of QACs are of less significance when they are compounded with other products with which they can exert a synergistic effect .
26 I think most of England are on this adventure with me and a lot of Europeans , ’ said Mansell .
27 Such species as The Harlequin and Dwarf Rasbora are in this category .
28 Those three areas are : education , welfare and health , where over 18% of women in Northern Ireland are working ; this is where we find the women in the RVH ; in clerical and related jobs — a quarter of women in Northern Ireland are in that area ; and another 23% are in catering , cleaning and hairdressing .
29 FRIENDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT HOW POOR THE ASHLEYS WERE AT THIS TIME BUT THE CHILDREN ARE WEARING MATCHING SWEATERS .
30 Lords Selborne and Blackburn were in both cases .
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