Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A midwife went through it all with me and I actually asked her to reassure me that nothing I was doing could harm my own baby , ’ she remembers . |
| 2 | No , I took it home , I I was sort of leaving that to you you know , as you say , as you 've just mentioned now that , but no , I thought when you first of you said have n't got the time to put these all the layers of on , you know and |
| 3 | It broke 'er 'eart when 'e told 'er 'e was orf ter India . ’ |
| 4 | See , marmit I it 's marmite . |
| 5 | Cos I saw erm a photo when I was eighteen and I it was sort of short in the neck over my ears short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe and I thought I might have it like that so |
| 6 | Sadie was tellin' me 'e 's bin 'angin' around wiv a bad crowd from Rovver'ithe . ’ |
| 7 | I also speak on behalf of the group New Consensus , of which I am chairman and which is both all-party and none . |
| 8 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 9 | In addition I have learnt an enormous amount from the monthly meetings of the Education Network in London , of which I was Coordinator from 1983 to 1987 . |
| 10 | A significant change has taken place in the wording of the statement , on this particular issue , from the original nineteen ninety draft of which was produced by the working party of which I was convenor . |
| 11 | Aye well you see there was a a local departmental committee , of which I was the employees ' employees ' side , of which I was secretary . |
| 12 | In the early 1970s the ILEA commissioned an in depth report into the school of which I was headteacher . |
| 13 | The bait dropper is normally used independently of the rod with which you are fishing , and the swimfeeder is used as part of the end tackle to which your baited hook is attached . |
| 14 | It is also an independent feeding method which involves a separate rod and line to lower the dropper in , or , if used with the same rod and line with which you are fishing , takes up precious minutes of time when your hookbait could be in the water ; valuable minutes when the barbel are mad on feed . |
| 15 | Mrs Allsopp failed to attend a meeting last night of the Parish Council , of which she 's chairman . |
| 16 | Her Royal Highness was addressing a conference on affordable village homes for Oxfordshire , organized by the County Council and the Rural Housing Trust , of which she 's president . |
| 17 | It is another for the Prime Minister to distance herself from the policies of the government of which she is head . |
| 18 | Members welcomed Dr Maureen Cooper , University of Stirling , who updated the WCC on progress with the recently-launched Women Scientists & Engineers in Scotland network , for which she is coordinator . |
| 19 | The cause of her disadvantage rests in the social arrangements we make , yet there is a tradition of social analysis which attempts to blame the girl for her failure , as if it were simply her responsibility to overcome the conditions of class , race and gender to which she is subject . |
| 20 | ‘ Whatever the uncertainties the last few weeks may have brought I want you to be certain of this — our work together will continue unchanged , ’ she told the 40 charities of which she is patron . |
| 21 | She waved to well-wishers at Sadler 's Wells in London where she watched Carmen performed by the British Youth Opera of which she is patron . |
| 22 | THE Princess of Wales 's favourite touring ballet company , The London City Ballet of which she is patron , is to close in July claiming it failed to receive promised Arts Council grants . |
| 23 | The Arab Women 's Solidarity Organisation , of which she is president , was banned recently for voicing its opposition to the Gulf War . |
| 24 | On Saturday , Princess Margaret , in her capacity as patron of the Scottish Ballet , will attend a gala performance at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow in aid of the Scottish Children 's League , of which she is president . |
| 25 | He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden . |
| 26 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 27 | This idea of Elena as the colleague in leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu led the poet , Ion Gheorghe , to conjure up a mystical vision of Elena as part of a ‘ trinity ’ , whose ‘ three dimensions ’ were Nicolae Ceauşescu , herself and the fatherland , of which she was mother . |
| 28 | The industry which we are part of is in excuse me , is in er sorry about this I 've dashed across here |
| 29 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
| 30 | Alistair Darling , the Labour MP for Edinburgh Central , said that the Leyland DAF crisis was the latest damage done to Scotland 's manufacturing base , adding : ‘ Even the financial services sector , crucial to Scotland 's economy and an area in which we are world leaders , is predicting job losses . ’ |