Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other teenagers he meets there are mainly criminals — thieves , prostitutes and drug pedlars — and most of them are members of the infamous teenage gangs which sometimes turn the city into a battleground . |
| 2 | ( I am Treasurer of the Scottish Cycling Council ( the Scottish ‘ arm ’ of the CTC ) , and I do quite a bit of cycling for leisure , including much of the Borders Region which is , in many ways , ideal for cycling ) . |
| 3 | I am chairman of the joint shop stewards committee in the RVH and also branch secretary of NUPE of north and west Belfast district . |
| 4 | I 'm head of the Zimbalan President 's security team . ’ |
| 5 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 6 | I was secretary of the working party which produced the statement . |
| 7 | Angela and I was head of the International Department from nineteen forty-eight to nineteen seventy-two . |
| 8 | I actually invited him when I was Director of the British Film Academy to come to London erm and with the help erm of Brian Coe of Kodak we actually reconstructed about thirty seconds of this two-colour process erm and put it on a screen for our filmmaker colleagues in London . |
| 9 | so the whole fucking tent shuffle 's round , he said , you remember you are part of the British army , if you disobey orders you will be brought up on charges , by the left quick march , and he 's fucking walking them to the sea |
| 10 | He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough . |
| 11 | Now you are Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial fund . |
| 12 | You 've no choice , you 're part of the international environment and you operate in that and you ca n't control , as I 've said before , er even if you 're as powerful as the United States , you ca n't control that environment and you do n't claim to control that environment in the same way that you claim to control your domestic environment . |
| 13 | You see you 're part of the international scene whether you realize it or not . |
| 14 | When you were part of the 14th INT , sleep was something you never took for granted . |
| 15 | She is Isis of the ten thousand names : obey her will , and the earth will become whole again . |
| 16 | She was secretary of the local Red Cross for many years and on retirement was made an honorary life member and awarded a badge of honour . |
| 17 | She sat and held her breath , and felt that she could hear the trees growing around her and that she was part of the same quiet measured progress , in a world devoid of people . |
| 18 | She was chairman of the British section for ten years but left , partly because she believed that the League 's pacifism was unrealistic . |
| 19 | During the war of 1914–18 she was chairman of the American Women 's War Hospital in Paignton , and served personally in a hospital at Lancaster Gate . |
| 20 | The decision created ripples throughout California , Joanne is a computer expert , she was head of the technical division at the California state lottery until her firing earlier this year after a period of sick leave . |
| 21 | She was matron of the large Dufferin Hospital which was bombed on Christmas Day , and in fear eighty of her Burmese nurses fled , leaving her with two English sisters , and a few good Anglo-Indian nurses . |
| 22 | She visited hospitals and schools , even a school for the deaf , where she boasted that she was President of the British Deaf Association . |
| 23 | She was president of the Genetical Society in 1936 . |
| 24 | In Hampstead she was president of the local committee of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies . |
| 25 | ‘ We are citizens of the British Empire and subjects of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second , ’ she announced , as if to pre-empt any further questions , pushing the photograph into her grandchild 's hand . |
| 26 | We 're we are part of the that process and it 's it 's sometimes encouraging for us to remember that there are small denominations , small groups like us around the world who are struggling to make their Christian witness real in their particular context . |
| 27 | We are victims of the industrial world ’ . |
| 28 | There is also the thought that we are inheritors of the previous three ages and that we become all that they have been . |
| 29 | We are members together of the body of Christ ; we are children of the same heavenly Father ; we are inheritors together of the kingdom of God . |
| 30 | We 're one of 29 units here , we 're part of the normal community . |