Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [is] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Edward is now overlord of this northern kingdom . ’ |
| 2 | Gary Speed is now top of the list for the number of letters sent in asking for signed photos since batty left , closely followed by Macca , Strach and Deane . |
| 3 | Erstwhile Sequent Computer Systems Corp president Scott Gibson is now chairman of Adaptive Solutions Inc , a Beaverton , Oregon start-up with a special-purpose parallel processing machine called CNAPS meant for image and speech processing . |
| 4 | Well I do n't know because North Yorkshire 's pretty sort of erm er pretty rife as far as black magic is concerned . |
| 5 | Thirty six year old Mr Jenkins is currently editor of news and current affairs at Scottish . |
| 6 | Thirty six year old Mr Jenkins is currently editor of news and current affairs at Scottish . |
| 7 | The Harmondsworth computer is not part of the INDECS operation . |
| 8 | Mr Gibbons is also chairman of bottle water company Highland Spring . |
| 9 | Mr Judge is currently chairman of Food From Britain , a pressure group aimed at promoting the UK 's producers and farmers . |
| 10 | Mr McDowell is also chairman of the Progressive Democrat party . |
| 11 | Mr Kidd is also chairman of a working party which reports on the state of hotel fire safety across Europe and reviews the effectiveness of existing EC recommendations . |
| 12 | ‘ Sir Henry is now head of the Baskerville family ? ’ asked Holmes . |
| 13 | And Mr Stephen Dorrell is still Minister of Health . |
| 14 | Mr Pierre Berge is now supremo of President Mitterrand 's grandiose project — an auditorium seaing 2,700 ; a smaller salle modulable with from 600 to 1,300 places , a studio with 280 places , rehearsal rooms for dancers and choir , bars and a Tour d'Argent resturant . |
| 15 | Interaction with UK Industry is usually part of each programme , and opportunities are increasing to serve on international collaborative research programmes . |
| 16 | The minister in charge of the Overseas Development Administration , Mr Chris Patten , is a keen green , and helped to write Mrs Thatcher 's how-green-I-am speech to last year 's Tory party conference . |
| 17 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 18 | The sole Dino Berlinetta Speciale is now part of the permanent collection of the Le Mans car museum in France , a fitting place for a car that drew its design inspiration from the first mid-engined Ferrari sports racing cars and which shocked the world at Paris more than a quarter of a century ago . |
| 19 | Brian Baldock is also chairman of the Lord 's Taverners . |
| 20 | ‘ I believe they wired it to a car battery and the body asked if Danie Craven is still President of the South African Rugby Board ’ — UNNAMED SOUTH AFRICAN PLAYER on hearing that a Bronze Age body had been found perfectly preserved in an Alpine glacier . |
| 21 | Prof Smith is currently Professor of the History of Art at the University of Michigan and will join St Andrews in January 1994 . |
| 22 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 23 | Saddam Hussein is still tyrant of Iraq , butchering human beings as usual . |
| 24 | The U.K. event is only part of the Glenlivet European Trophy , which began for the other European branches of Seagram in 1988 . |
| 25 | HOWZAT : Huyton opener Keith Jones is out lbw to Chester 's Steve Wundke |
| 26 | But with programmes like The Tube , The Media Show and Walkie Talkie behind her , Muriel Gray is now co-presenter with Jimmy Mulville of a new Channel 4 series Just for Laughs , looking behind the scenes at the Montreal Comedy festival . |
| 27 | But , more importantly , a Smiths gig is merely part of a night out , something to talk about in the pub afterwards . |
| 28 | Ambitious New Yorkers , please note : Northern Ireland is not part of New York city , nor yet of the United States , nor even of South Africa . |
| 29 | Eastman Ross is now part of a group with an annual turnover of nearly £6 million , a headquarters and 16 sites , including those in in Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 30 | John Smith is now part of Courage , although Courage is now called Fosters . |