Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here Yavan is one of the merchants who trade with Tyre , and slaves are among the merchandise . |
| 2 | The development is seen as a significant victory for conservationists , since Taiwan is one of the centres of the international trade in endangered species , including rhinos , tigers , orang-utangs and Malaysian sun bears . |
| 3 | one of the things that Dough who was there , er with Iris on , on , on the twelfth er spotted was that one of his ex students who now works in educational technology or something equally grand in the Northern College in Dundee is one of the volunteers who have come forward |
| 4 | Raskolnikov is one of the others , though it 's only through the long crime-and-punishment process that he comes to understand this : he had ‘ wanted something more ’ — more than our mere-existence rain . |
| 5 | Now Standlake is one of the sites that is now out for consultation . |
| 6 | As you know , Derek Jefferson is one of the sponsors of this week 's tournament and one of his ploys to drum up a bit more publicity is to arrange a tour of his factory . |
| 7 | The trip 's official photographer Alan Selwood is one of the helpers working towards that aim . |
| 8 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
| 9 | A neat bit of rewriting there ; the real Richard was one of the leaders of the Second Crusade which laid waste to Palestine , before ending up with a score-draw against the Arabs whose land he was invading . |
| 10 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 11 | Nelson Mandela was one of the guests of honour , and took the opportunity of meeting Shevardnadze as well as US Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 12 | Swindon Town are off to Sunderland … they beat the wearsiders one nil down here … the winner from Glenn Hoddle was one of the goals of the seasons … |
| 13 | As a canon of Durham Ramsey was one of the custodians of a great monument of the European inheritance in architecture , at a time when bombs dropped upon Britain . |
| 14 | Ken was one of the men — but that night , his chiffon failed to appear . |
| 15 | Conran was one of the designers involved in the Festival of Britain in 1951 . |
| 16 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 17 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 18 | Monzer al-Kassar and Rifat Assad were two of the names that cropped up most frequently in the cascade of raw intelligence from informants and intercepts that he was analysing for NARCOG and back-channelling to Donleavy . |
| 19 | They chose Ermentrude not only because young men tend to do silly things but also because Ermentrude is one of the heroines of The Magic Roundabout . |
| 20 | For Aurillac is one of the centres for the distribution of the splendid cheese of Cantal , to my mind one of the best and most interesting in France . |
| 21 | Beverley is one of the gems of England , a largely unspoilt market town nestling in the Wolds of East Yorkshire , and its highly successful Early Music Festival reflects both the beauty of the town and offers a reminder of past glories . |
| 22 | Orkney is one of the venues for BT 's video conferencing system , providing face-to-face communication without the pain of travel or risk of journalistic interference . |
| 23 | At the beginning of December 1939 , Fred Dunstan was one of the adults who went with the last group of children from the transit camp to ‘ Bydown ’ , not far from Barnstaple in North Devon . |
| 24 | After an eight-day disputation , in which Molla Husrev was one of the judges , Hocazade was adjudged to have won and was given Molla Zeyrek 's medrese as a reward . |
| 25 | Christopher Gray was one of the nurserymen who bought plants from the bishop 's collections in the gardens of Fulham Palace . |
| 26 | In Teheran , Zahedi was one of the protagonists of a military solution to the crisis . |
| 27 | Chief Inspector Chips Salter was one of the officers they had been sent in to bring under control and Salter both guessed this ( although all such information was supposed to be highly confidential ) , and naturally — resented it . |
| 28 | During the 1890s they carried out work on inductive telegraphy , which was particularly important for communication with lighthouses and lightships , and Preece was one of the members of the royal commission on electrical communication with lighthouses and light vessels . |
| 29 | Shulamith Amir was one of the passengers . |
| 30 | Christopher and Joanne Taylor , of Gonerby Hill Foot , Grantham , whose eight-week-old son Liam was one of the children to die , are due to give evidence today . |