Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing were such power stations described as ‘ brick cathedrals ’ ; Bankside is the finest manifestation of this tradition . |
| 2 | It is his show in Paris which attracts hoards of fans ( some of whom are hardened fashion journalists ) all keen to catch the first glimpse of Thierry 's latest creations . |
| 3 | IMS has already started to recruit engineers for the Livingston operation , many of whom are former Ferranti employees . |
| 4 | To make sure that the job was done properly , Mr Lobov appointed three new deputy ministers , two of whom are former deputy chairmen of Gosplan , the Soviet central-planning agency . |
| 5 | The Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) held its congress on March 3 , 1990 , when the 1,000 members present elected a new central committee , most of whom were former Robben Island prisoners , and elected Humeleng Mosala , a theology lecturer at the University of Cape Town , as the organization 's new president . |
| 6 | The COB accused Paz Zamora of giving in to United States pressure and reneging on an election promise that crop substitution measures would remain the central strategy to eradicate the growing of coca crops by 60,000 peasant farmers , many of whom were former tin miners made redundant as a result of the collapse of the international price of tin . |
| 7 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 8 | That , I mean , the , the appointments what Jane and Linda do make me , I 'll be honest , they 're quality appointments , not all of them but I would sixty , seventy percent of them are good quality appointments . |
| 9 | Many of them are powerful gringo media barons . |
| 10 | And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it . |
| 11 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 12 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 13 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
| 14 | Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up . |
| 15 | The most obvious example of them is third person pronouns ( she/her/hers/herself ; he/him/his/himself ; it/its/itself ; they/them/their/ theirs/themselves ) . |
| 16 | Some of our best writers are on the staff of the magazine , and one of them is Associate Editor Anne Boston . |
| 17 | I 've taken three of them , and one of them is this Jamie Baird . |
| 18 | He defeated three other candidates , one of them being leading Sajudis member Romualdas Ozalas . |
| 19 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 20 | Some of them were floating milk calculi , others tiny pedunculated tumours , injuries to the teat lining , all sorts of things . |
| 21 | One of them was British director John Dexter , who was casting Peter Shaffer 's The Royal Hunt of the Sun , to be performed at ANTA in October 1965 . |
| 22 | One of them was local farmer Barry Colman . |
| 23 | The joint venture has five blocks under licence , covering two sedimentary basins , both of which are proven hydrocarbon provinces . |
| 24 | Although no exact figures on EDS ' Italian revenues in 1992 were available , an EDS spokesman estimated them to be $20m , most of which are General Motors Corp-related . |
| 25 | There has been a steady growth in the newer area of sales to retail outlets , some of which are supermarkets but many of which are traditional grocery shops . |
| 26 | To complete this , his second solo , JLP includes a couple of his own songs for good measure , both of which are high quality rock outings , with ‘ Go Tell The Mountain ’ being the best of the bunch . |
| 27 | As can be seen from the amounts outstanding in various instruments there are a number of different types of saving available , the most popular of which are National Savings Certificates , Ordinary Accounts and Investment Accounts ( it is not the intention to describe in detail all of the instruments available , as descriptions are readily available from post offices ) . |
| 28 | BECAUSE ‘ Mad , Scared , Dumb And Gorgeous ’ debut from a new duo , one half of which is former Furniture vocalist Jim Irvin |
| 29 | Several of the companies were newly founded last month , the most ambitious of which is Advanced Computer Technology Ltd or ACTec , which is charged with producing both an Asynchronous Transfer Mode switch , and separately , a wireless local network system . |
| 30 | There are many factors involved in the exploitation of forests in the developing world , many of which have been discussed in section 7.3 in relation to soil erosion and desertification , not least of which is rapid population growth . |