Example sentences of "of [pers pn] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them are Link Schools , and a number of special schools are also included in the scheme . |
| 2 | so most of them are London Gatwick or Manchester . |
| 3 | Few Washingtonians talk like this , perhaps because few of them are Yankee patrician war heroes , perhaps because politics has rubbed the gleam off them . |
| 4 | Erm well two of them are cod liver oil . |
| 5 | Some of them are Suardale men — and Drynoch men ! ’ |
| 6 | The specimens identified by Koehler ( 1907 ) as A. palmeri proved on re-examination to be wrongly identified , some of them are A. filiformis and some A. grandis . |
| 7 | Joining us from one of them is Mike Rowbottom . |
| 8 | ( WES ) One of them is Mike Teague , formerly of Gloucester , now playing for Moseley , and adamant he 's not over the hill . |
| 9 | Have to think about it but the name that immediately springs to mind for most of them is Russell Grant . |
| 10 | There are billions of ways of throwing together the bits of Mont Blanc , it might be said , and only one of them is Mont Blanc . |
| 11 | The highest of them is Sgorr Ruadh and the next Maol Chean-dearg , both only fully revealed by walks into the interior of the Forest . |
| 12 | Sotheby 's followed the Schimmel collection with a very strong mixed-owner sale that featured an unusually high percentage of Roman marbles — word from the trade was that many of them were Basia Johnson 's . |
| 13 | In the middle of them were Mrs Phipps and Mrs Taylor , our neighbours , sitting on the step crying . |
| 14 | About three-quarters of them were day schools and the remainder boarding ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 17 ) . |
| 15 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |
| 16 | Drakard , though , in his Stamford News of 17 November 1819 accused the sport 's antagonisers of hypocrisy , as many of them were fox hunters , suggesting their real motive was purely to destroy a working class tradition : |
| 17 | Several of them were fringe members who we have not been able to keep on to some of them especially in er in Little Hulton and Irlam |
| 18 | Most of them were Science Fiction or Fantasy . |
| 19 | Eight of them were grammar schools , nine were comprehensive and there was one middle school . |
| 20 | He 's had some very special pupils — one of them was Paul McCartney . |
| 21 | After all , one of them was Mrs Eileen Paisley , who was standing against the outgoing Lord Mayor to protest his papist flag-lowering . |
| 22 | One of them was Inspector George Leeming , one of the royal bodyguards . |
| 23 | One of them was Guardsman Johnny Cooper who had managed to join the Scots Guards while still under age and who was very impressed by his commanding officer : ‘ he was different from the officers I had come into contact with up to that time . |
| 24 | And her last sight of them was Dr Neil standing cold and upright , the scar on his white face angry and vivid , facing the lovely woman whose whole posture was that of a pleading Niobe — McAllister wondered where all these classical allusions were suddenly coming from , remembering that Niobe was famous for her tears , and for their power . |
| 25 | One of them was Peter Burrows whose wife has a degenerative illness . |
| 26 | At the next election , two Labour MPs ( one of them was Keir Hardie ) were returned . |
| 27 | One of them was Joseph Whitworth , who prepared an interesting report on some of the manufactures and on the patent system of the USA . |
| 28 | The best of them was Henry Lawes ; even he was far from deserving Milton 's great sonnet but he could manage both tragic and colloquial declamation with equal skill in dramatic monologue and strophic air : |
| 29 | It 's got a main street , and I think it 'd got two other streets and that 's about all and sure enough one of them was Lilac Avenue . |
| 30 | One person whose eye he did catch was Patrick McGoohan , who recommended him for the role of cabin boy John Drake in Sir Francis Drake , a twenty-six-part adventure series made by ITC , whose boss , Lew Grade , was expert at making programmes that would sell to America ; one of them was Danger Man , starring McGoohan . |