Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She works for American Vogue where she is a contributing editor , and is a proud member of The Academy Club . |
2 | Her patronage of Bruce Oldfield notwithstanding , the Princess ' instinct for clothes , once freed from the stultifying dullness of her ultra-yah family , has proved to be more High Street than haute couture ; witness the acres of Di-wear replication in major chain stores and at weddings and company dances the length and width of the land ( and in Australia and the United States too where she is a considerable star ) . |
3 | They met at Cornell University , where she was a social work student and he was in the agricultural department . |
4 | The letter concerned the mother of the complainant who had died at the hospital , where she was a paying patient . |
5 | Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made but the service will almost certainly be at Llanfwrog Parish Church where she was a faithful member throughout her life . |
6 | Sharon worked as an enrolled nurse at Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals Elderly Care Unit , where she was a popular member of staff . |
7 | Brig Ramsey arrives from the Women 's Royal Army Corps ( WRAC ) , where she was the final director before its abolition last week under Options for Change . |
8 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
9 | Taking these and studies commissioned by donors in countries where they are the predominant donor into account , it appears that only about ten African aid recipients have been studied in this way . |
10 | He leaves the Observer , where he is an associate editor . |
11 | However , it is in his treatment of ideology that Gramsci 's legacy has been most pervasive and where he is the unmistakable precursor of all the Marxist and post-Marxist theorists we now proceed to discuss . |
12 | In the absence of correspondence , the clearest impression of Sherland 's attitudes and concerns is provided by his contributions in Parliament , where he was a prominent speaker and committee man . |
13 | He was a strong churchman and after seeing two or three patients on a Sunday morning would go without fail to St George 's United Free church , where he was a senior elder . |
14 | Uxbridge , Middlesex-based VeriFone ( UK ) Ltd has announced the appointment of John Hinds as vice-president and general manager of the International Division of its parent company VeriFone Inc ; Hinds joins the company from AT&T Co where he was a senior vice-president and had been president of the AT&T International arm since 1987 . |
15 | He was educated at local schools and at the Leeds Mechanics ' Institution and Literary Society , where he was a diligent student in drawing and mathematics . |
16 | He went to the Revd W. Woods 's private day-school and then to Trinity College , Dublin , where he was a distinguished athlete . |
17 | Cannabis comes from hemp , which was among the first plants to be domesticated , especially in parts of South-East Asia , where it is a valuable source of fibre for making rope and twine . |
18 | This condition is a constant feature of the Apterygota , where it is a primitive character , but in the Pterygota the loss of Wings is secondary ( La Greca , 1954 ) . |
19 | An exception is in those curricula where it is an integral part of a course of liturgical studies . |
20 | Here again , the traditional priority of reality over literature is reversed ; where it is an axiomatic principle that literature is derived from other literature and not from any non-literary source , reality becomes irrelevant to the writing and analysis of literature . |
21 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |
22 | The happiest occupation for the cornetto is in playing florid divisions on vocal works — chansons , madrigals and the like , to which its ‘ vocal ’ qualities suit it , or in taking the place of the violin in sonatas and canzonas — and not only where it was a declared option , which is what happens in this recording . |
23 | But then where it was a closed shop . |
24 | He fulfilled all the promise of his physical grace , although his was a stylised kind of dancing and there was nothing flamboyant about it . |
25 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
26 | I felt I had to write to your readers as an unbiased outsider , although I am an avid reader of your magazine . |
27 | She was n't heavy and although I 'm no weight-training freak , I lifted her until her backside was balanced on the tailboard and then it was just a matter of rolling her in to the well of the truck , the back of her head making a satisfying thud as she landed . |
28 | Although I 'm a strong advocate of the right tool for the job , for obvious reasons , not every d-i-yer owns a mallet , and even many carpenters exclude them from their tool kits . |
29 | Although I 'm an old age pensioner , I 've got lots of things to do . |
30 | One commercial problem which had faced Lipton was that although theirs is a worldwide trading name , outside America the brand is marketed by rival companies . |