Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the third division , Hereford are at home to top of the table , Barnet . |
| 2 | Ever since the days when Lavoisier and then Davy had worked on gunpowder there had been close connections between science and defence ; but the quantity of hard science in these papers is small , as it is also in F. A. Abel 's on substitutes for gunpowder ( 17 May 1872 ) where he spoke of nitro-glycerine and dynamite and gun-cotton , and even in John Tyndall 's of 4 June 1875 on Whitworth 's rifled guns . |
| 3 | The titles of Marjorie Rosen 's Popcorn Venus ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell 's from Reverence to Rape ( 1974 ) indicate this concern with images ; both books aim at giving a survey of representations of women in Hollywood film . |
| 4 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 5 | Gurus as a marketable , bankable phenomenon are essentially a product of the early eighties , when Peters ' and Waterman 's In Search of Excellence fired a business generation with its upbeat exhortations . |
| 6 | 1990 ; Strong and Robinson 1990 ) For many districts , Griffiths 's concern with consumer research , improving quality , and evaluating effectivness were driven to the sidelines even though Peters and Waterman 's In Search of Excellence increasingly appeared on the bookshelves of general managers ' offices . |
| 7 | Apart from armoured columns the French navy had joined in as well and on at least one occasion the battleship Richelieu was in action against land targets . |
| 8 | Dulcie Howes was in hospital with appendicitis , so he had gone to stay again with his puppeteer friends , John and Zoë Wright . |
| 9 | Richard was in bed with dysentery . |
| 10 | By then , in any case , Thorfinn was in Scone with Osbern of Eu , drawing maps and discussing strategy . |
| 11 | Edward was in favour of coffee ; Helen wanted to go . |
| 12 | ‘ Exports of imitation Stolichnaya are from time to time made from other regions of the former USSR , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Although both the BCP and the UDF were in agreement in principle over the election of a head of state , the UDF wanted the President to be elected by the future Grand National Assembly , whereas the BCP wanted the President to be elected directly , at the same time as the forthcoming parliamentary elections . |
| 14 | His engineering analysis of the problem brought him to many ideas that were very similar to Alexander 's in terms of posture and sitting . |
| 15 | The health of a third of the population of England is at risk from air pollution , according to a Greenpeace study , with children and old people particularly vulnerable . |
| 16 | A plot without Nancy is like chips without salt . |
| 17 | ‘ Charlie 's baby is due tomorrow , Perry is in Japan on tour , just like all the papers say . |
| 18 | Sheriff Alexander Jessop stated that Muller was in need of help , not punishment . |
| 19 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 20 | A friend of Stalin was in charge of security . |
| 21 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it mentioned that the stiles on footpath No 12 between Scorton Picnic area and the Trough Road are in need of repair . |
| 22 | Both the NRP and CCM were in favour of autonomy for Nevis , but the NRP , part of the coalition government with the PAM , did not raise the issue during the election campaign . |
| 23 | They were thieves , and once again they would be stealing the land that was not theirs , the land and estates that were Karl Schiller 's by right of inheritance . |
| 24 | But the UN is under pressure from church groups and from Swapo and other parties to keep a strong military presence beyond the six-month deadline the Security Council has decreed . |
| 25 | Mrs Lundberg is in hospital with knife wounds , her son has been treated and released . |
| 26 | The chief weakness of the House of Commons is in matters of taxation ; the way in which it has not been able to keep pace with administrative developments is that it has no method of collecting information ( other than the briefing from outside pressure groups already mentioned ) on the social and other side-effects of a tax or of examining possible future departures in taxation policy . |
| 27 | ‘ Violette is in love with death , ’ Carlo suddenly interrupted in a soft but resonant voice . |
| 28 | Olivia was on holiday with actor husband Matt Lattanzi , 32 , when the telephone rang . |
| 29 | Meanwhile a Cant Z.1007bis bomber of the 51 o Stormo B.T. was in transit from Vicenzo to Alghero in Sardinia . |
| 30 | Recent pictures by Jorg Immendorf are at Templon ; Jean-Jacques Rullier and Nina Childress are at Jennifer Flay ; Philippe Cognee is on show until mid-month at Laage Salomon , landscapes in oil on canvas and panel as well as large monochrome and charcoal drawings . |