Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He regarded being chief secretary , with its need to cut departmental spending throughout Government , as having been the toughest of the jobs ‘ in terms of sheer workload ’ . |
| 2 | Sir Edmond had been the first of the Goldsmiths to found a School but his example was soon followed . |
| 3 | In this respect Excel has always been the first of the Windows spreadsheet , and incorporated much of the ease of use that Windows offered . |
| 4 | Dixon , who campaigned upon the promise to " clean City Hall out not with a broom , but a shovel " , had been the first of the candidates to call for Barry 's resignation . |
| 5 | Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived . |
| 6 | Using the notation the bounds proved by Walpole for aligned transversely isotropic elements are : where the upper bound is where are the greatest of the values and the lower bound is where are the least of these . |
| 7 | At Orongo are the best of the petroglyphs . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman might reflect on the fact that those Scotsmen who come down here to represent English constituencies are the best of the Scotsmen , who choose to come down here to represent one of the 523 constituencies in this country . |
| 9 | In other words , in the circumstances of the present case the wishes and feelings of W. , considered in the light of her age and understanding , are the first of the factors to which the court must have regard , but the court must have regard also to such of the other factors as may be relevant when discharging its overall responsibility for W. 's welfare . |
| 10 | These are the first of the super-formats , and although basically compatible with standard VHS , the picture quality is greatly improved . |
| 11 | The stints are the smallest of the waders , and these two species have fairly similar plumages of streaky brown with paler underparts . |
| 12 | Besides Sun , we guess the unidentified members of the Sparc International Executive Committee getting access to the Viking chip are the five in the systems business : Hal , Hyundai , Amdahl , ICL and Matsushita . |
| 13 | No two days are the same for the Buildings Branch and says it 's the variety which makes his job so enjoyable . |
| 14 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 15 | to my mind they 're no different to the constraints that one would experience in any other planning area . |
| 16 | Here , maybe , are a few of the answers : |
| 17 | Here are a few of the problems , along with some of the remedies . |
| 18 | These are a few of the questions debated by thoughtful voters at supermarket check-out points , in dentists ' waiting rooms and factory canteens , on nature trails , in the linoleum-infested parlours of spirit mediums and in the halls of the mighty . |
| 19 | Here are a few of the oddities we have found in our adopted country . |
| 20 | Lemon chicken , dim sum and aromatic crispy duck are a few of the specialities to be enjoyed in this pleasant Chinese restaurant situated in the heart of the town . |
| 21 | Technically , the Canon 's output should be the best of the printers tested , because its resolution is 360dpi , rather than the standard 300dpi . |
| 22 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 23 | Nimbus believes HyperSparc may even leapfrog Viking to be the first of the superscalars to become available to all-comers . |
| 24 | God 's way of salvation is shown to be the same throughout the ages : men respond in faith to his initiative in grace . |
| 25 | The L M S used to be the biggest of the railways you see . |
| 26 | Being the first of the lasses , she was always his favourite ; the lads did n't seem to matter . |
| 27 | The family was far from being the poorest of the peasants , but Nasser nonetheless had first-hand experience of the poverty-stricken conditions of the rural Egyptians , crammed in along the banks of the Nile on which the whole country depended . |
| 28 | As shown in Figure 4 , the thecodontians were the first of the archosaurs , the group that also includes the pterosaurs , crocodiles and the dinosaurs . |
| 29 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 30 | The Franks were the last of the invaders of Gaul , although ultimately they were the most successful . |