Example sentences of "of [pron] be [adv] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They speak disparagingly of the Rowdies , yet many of them were once Rowdies themselves . |
| 2 | One of them was unmistakeably Mikhail Vologsky . |
| 3 | One of them was certainly Kenneth Baker , glossy , sleek and cheerful ; behind him plodded his detective , a literate and unhappy member of the Special Branch who much preferred Brighton rock to Brighton beach , especially at such a late hour . |
| 4 | Groove Tubes has worked with ‘ legendary guitarists ’ as well , who all endorse Groove Tubes ( unsolicited and not under contract ) , some of which are also Peavey endorsees . |
| 5 | Managing director David Crisp says that he is talking to three potential manufacturers at the moment , one of which is presumably Amstrad . |
| 6 | The most famous of which is probably Mother Theresa and her Sisters of Charity of Calcutta . |
| 7 | These evicted workers joined other newcomers to the now rapidly industrializing Berlin to live in the massively expanding properly urban working class districts outside of the Mitte — thus the population of ‘ red ’ Wedding increased ten-fold to 254,000 between 1871 and 1913 ; the population of the Rosenthaler Vorstadt , much of which is now East Berlin 's Prenzlauerberg , increased seven-fold to 319,000 in 1913 ; and the population of Stralauer Viertel and Königsviertel , much of which now is Friedrichshain , increased taken together between three and four fold to 489,000 . |
| 8 | The background of one was recognizably Santa de Nogueira , and she was locked in struggle with an ordinary-looking man about whom a dark cloud was gathering . |
| 9 | However , the work which most dramatically highlights the unreliability of the world and of literature 's portrayal of it is perhaps José Donoso 's The Obscene Bird of Night , whose schizophrenic narrator/protagonist experiences modern man 's ontological insecurity as a psychological condition . |
| 10 | Apart from the battle of Qadesiyah in AD 637 during the original advance of Islam , so frequently invoked by Iraq as a source of inspiration in the more recent conflict with Iran , Persians and the inhabitants of what is today Iraq have been making forays into one another 's territory for centuries . |
| 11 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
| 12 | Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor . |
| 13 | There was also a single large northern continent called Laurasia consisting of what is now North America , Greenland , Europe and Asia ( apart from India ) . |
| 14 | Even in the realm of symbolism Charles did not provide the only precedent : Otto 's father , Henry I , had apparently bought the famous Holy Lance for the cost of a substantial part of what is now Switzerland ; and the Holy Lance was viewed as a talisman which would help a king to victory and as a token to be possessed by any candidate to the empire . |
| 15 | They built homes throughout the Dale up to the borders of what is now Drinan , and their chief town was at Dun Merkadal . |
| 16 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 17 | Albeit subject to much abuse and neglect since 1947 when India became independent , literally hundreds of DWEC products are regularly summoned into service throughout the whole of what is now Bangladesh . |
| 18 | In the mid-seventh century , Dagobert II , one of the central figures in the mystery of Rennes-le-Château , was raised and educated at the monastery of Slane , just north of what is now Dublin . |
| 19 | Its headwaters began in the swamps south of what is now Orlando and flowed into Lake Okeechobee at the centre of the system . |
| 20 | Some machinery but not the wheel still survives , in the cellar of what is now Malvern House . |
| 21 | A Hong Kong legislator interned with him , Mr H.K. Cheng , was able to help Mr Walker and a Canadian internee , Mr David Michell , to pinpoint the site , in the grounds of what is now Weifang Middle School . |
| 22 | Finally the nomadic Parthians were followed , two , centuries after Christ , by the Sassaniansm who Shahanshah , or King , still ruled over a vast area , including parts of what are now Georgia , Armenia , Afghanistan , Bahrain and Iraq . |