Example sentences of "[prep] [be] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newer cars to look for are the Citroen BX range , the Peugeot 205 and 309 GRTD , and , if your pocket runs to it , Renault 's smashing little Clio RN1.9D or Citroen 's brilliant ZX Reflex 1.9D . |
| 2 | In late May the Sudanese media began to accuse Saudi Arabia of being the SPLA 's main financial backer and supplier of weapons , and on June 11 it was reported that when army forces destroyed an SPLA camp at Kit ( about 45 km south-west of Torit ) , they had found " a huge quantity of military equipment manufactured in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia " . |
| 3 | The English Bookshop in the Rue de Rivoli has the distinction of being the W H Smith branch which has remained longest on its original site . |
| 4 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 5 | Another boot which I have been impressed with is the Cima Vango , which gives a wide fit across the toes and is now produced with a highly water-resistant Anfibio leather . |
| 6 | From being the Mecca of young Chinese who wished to ‘ awaken ’ their nation , Japan had , in little more than two decades , become an aggressor to be kept at bay . |
| 7 | One of the competitions pupils took part in was the Darlington Competitive Dance Festival . |
| 8 | They have found that algae are thriving on nutrients from sewage , farm runoff and factory waste : when they die they drift to the bottom and consume the available oxygen ; water hyacinths clog the shallows , reducing the light and oxygen reaching the area where many of the native fish species live ; in the past the fish acted as a check on the algae , but more than 400 species have disappeared in recent years ; one culprit is considered to be the Nile perch , a large fish introduced in the 1950s . |
| 9 | Following an accident in the 1938 race , however , the Mille Miglia was banned in Italy the following year and a race purporting to be the Mille Miglia was held between Tobruk and Tripoli in north Africa and won by Ercole Boratto ( Ita ) , a former chauffeur of Mussolini . |
| 10 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 11 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 12 | On closer inspection this turned out to be the L'Chaim Society , a Jewish good-time gang which presumably also has a stout approach to Judaism . |
| 13 | The demonstrators against the war in the streets of the capital are using the weapon of Islamic solidarity to have a go at the western powers , and some are indirectly critical of Mr Suharto , who is assumed to be the West 's friend . |
| 14 | Other boys wanted to be the Beatles ; Lloyd Webber wanted to be Richard Rodgers . |
| 15 | He would write to Ken about his holidays in Morocco and going to see dancing ‘ by what turned out to be the Senegal National Shitpot Company ’ . |
| 16 | By similar arrangement with the CPR next year I travelled to Montreal and , not knowing the city , asked for a room in the CPR hotel which turned out to be the St. Viger . |
| 17 | Were n't very clean and er course Ipswich water 's all nice fresh water , they always filled up with fresh water at Ipswich , the Dutch boats which was the we had three boats there , they used to be the Ipswich , Ipswich Progress and Ipswich Pioneer . |
| 18 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 19 | In the run-up to the general election his endorsement of independence could prove to be the SNP 's greatest asset . |
| 20 | And they chose themselves to have the ruling family to be the Al Sabar family . |
| 21 | A 120-member policy-making Sandinista assembly was also elected and was formally elevated to be the FSLN 's superior body despite expectations that the DN would not be answerable to it . |
| 22 | That , though , does not seem to be the Frank Bruno way . |
| 23 | The bond ( whose price includes 137 days ' accrued interest on 1 April ) has to be financed at the money market rate of 10 per cent for the 90 days between 1 April and 30 June , when the bond ( if it happens to be the CTD ) is delivered into the futures market . |
| 24 | The only vessels in today are an Argentine tug towing what I presume to be the Santa Maria del Sud . |
| 25 | The reasons behind the decision were thought to be the USA 's continuing doubts about the value and cost-effectiveness of FAO 's work and its dissatisfaction with the Director-General , Edward Saouma . |
| 26 | Had we our Annuall Parliaments Settled , the Negative Voice Restrained , a Committee of Lords and Commons to be the Privy-Council , no Officers of the King to serve in Parliament , the Revenue Appropriated , all Eminent Offices had upon good Behaviour and Election of Members to Parliament secured , the Work might have deserved a better Character " . |
| 27 | Drug traffickers had also killed more than 20 police officers in separate incidents over the previous 10 days , in retaliation for the October death of Brance Muñoz Mosquera , believed to be the Medellín drug cartel 's military commander [ see p. 39138 ] . |
| 28 | And the Argentine embassy used to be the London house of the 7th Duke of Richmond , one of whose great-grandsons was also among the guests : Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox , formerly our ambassador to Spain . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you know , ’ she said , ‘ that Gilbert is n't going to be the Avonlea teacher now ? ’ |
| 30 | At the other extreme , Japan is predicted to be the OECD 's fastest grower in 1991 ( 3.7% ) , followed closely by Turkey ( 3.5% ) , which was last year 's top performer . |