Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it true that a former DTI Minister , who happens to be the current treasurer of the Conservative party — the noble Lord Beaverbrook — in five months made a profit of £50 million by purchasing and then selling a huge tract of the fragile Guyana rain forest ? |
| 2 | Compare the level of formality in the above dialogue with that in the following extract from another dialogue where Charles is talking to his father , who happens to be the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard : |
| 3 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 4 | The line of Louis I was continued in La Couture through the descendants of his son Louis ( married to Marie Francard ) , until the death of his great grandson , Louis , who appears to be the last known descendant of the Hotteterre makers . |
| 5 | The man who hopes to be the next Nigel Mansell . |