Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adj] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Courtney this was a return to Africa , for he had been a big-game hunter and had once canoed down the Nile from Lake Victoria . |
| 2 | For Levi this is an indicator that : |
| 3 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |
| 4 | the ex-President of Colchester Rotary is the principle of the college is n't he ? |
| 5 | Though it is impossible to date the provisions with any confidence , in favour of dating them in the reign of Mehmed II is the fact that Sultan Murad III ( 982–1003/1574–95 ) , in a firman sent to his Grand Vezir in 985/1577 in connection with reform of the learned profession , speaks of " the ancient law ( kanun ) of Sultan Mehmed Gazi " : it thus seems likely that Mehmed II promulgated some legislation concerning the learned profession , if not these actual provisions . |
| 6 | The reign of Edward I was a period of development and definition . |
| 7 | An essential precondition for the events of November 1990 was the government 's longer-term unpopularity as demonstrated by the opinion polls and by-election results . |
| 8 | The key feature of FRED 1 was the attempt to shift the emphasis in the p&l account from concentration on a single performance indicator to highlighting a range of important components of financial performance . |
| 9 | A major theme reported by the Financial Times of Feb. 27 was the effort of developing countries to adopt market-economy structural changes and to compete efficiently in the changed international climate . |
| 10 | He is also a secretary of Envis that is the commission of covenant to churches of which we are all members of churches . |
| 11 | It was FOUNTAINDALE near Mansfield that was the sight of the colourful first meeting of Robin Hood and Friar Tuck and in the village of BLIDWORTH , the church yard of St Mary of the Purification is said to be the resting place of Will Scarlet . |
| 12 | For Vincent this was a dream come true , working alongside a fellow artist in collaboration — two comrades , shoulder to shoulder . |
| 13 | Wilson 's most important and , to date , durable innovation in March 1974 was the creation , separate from the CPRS , of a Downing Street Policy Unit under Dr Bernard Donoughue , a political scientist from the London School of Economics . |
| 14 | What was said by a single inhabitant of Berchtesgaden in March 1945 was a sentiment undoubtedly close to the hearts of most Germans at this time : ‘ If we 'd have imagined in 1933 how things would turn out , we 'd never have voted for Hitler . ’ |
| 15 | The years between the calling of the first Exclusion Parliament in the spring of 1679 and the meeting of the Oxford Parliament in March 1681 was the time when the Whigs were at the peak of their popularity , but this was a rather untypical situation , even for the Restoration era . |
| 16 | The election of Slobodan Milosevic as Serbia 's president in December 1990 was a pity , but not undemocratic ; and , whatever his past influence , he does not control Bosnia 's Serbs . |
| 17 | On release from February 11 is the video of Peter Greenaway 's ‘ The Cook , the Thief , his Wife and her Lover ’ , ( cert 18 ) , in which the costumes are designed by Jean Paul Gaultier . |
| 18 | The Annual Conference at Northampton in May 1992 was a triumph of willpower over weakness . |
| 19 | It is customarily assumed that the five years and eight months between the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany in September 1939 and the final collapse of that power in May 1945 was an epoch of ever-increasing radicalism , both for the British electorate and for the Labour Party itself . |
| 20 | Among the details he had held back during appearances before both the Senate foreign relations committee and the House of Representatives intelligence committee in October 1986 were the fact that he had solicited a $10,000 million contribution from the Sultan of Brunei . |
| 21 | The DHAC had proved that new and imaginative methods of protest could make an impact on the Unionist administration at the Guildhall , but for most opponents of the Unionist Party in Derry this was a reason for achieving a greater degree of anti-Unionist unity in order to press home their advantage , not to become equally hostile to the Nationalist Party . |
| 22 | The third party which has its roots in the political movements that arose before August 1991 is the Party of Labour ( PT ) . |
| 23 | In Britain such was the period following the defeat of Clodius Albinus in the civil war of AD 196 . |
| 24 | In Britain this is a ground nesting bird of the open country , and there is no record of it entering caves , but like the snowy owl it could have altered its behaviour during colder stages of the Pleistocene . |
| 25 | An important move in September 1792 was the appointment of a medical experimental committee , consisting of Sir George Baker , Sir William Fordyce , Dr Crawford , Dr Scott , John Hunter , Mr Cline and Mr Houlston . |
| 26 | The creation of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau ( SCB ) in September 1986 was The Law Society 's answer to critics of the complaints machinery . |
| 27 | Yet within Whitehall there was a marked reluctance to accept the implications behind such evidence ; officials tended to fall back on the convenient explanation that the ‘ problem evacuees ’ revealed in September 1939 were a product of poor-quality home life among some sections of the working class rather than highly exaggerated cultural differences or poverty . |
| 28 | Denied effective legal counsel prior to his indictment , Stewart 's trial at Inveraray in September 1752 was a travesty of justice . |
| 29 | At the centre of the action in Joshua 6 is the ark , the Israelites ' most sacred object of all , the box containing the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments inscribed upon them , the box upon which , so they believed , their God was invisibly enthroned . |
| 30 | War in Henry V is a test of kingship rather than a subject in its own right . |