Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello Jim are you from Birmingham ? |
| 2 | In the United States , A.J. Foyt and Al Unser are something of national heroes as a result of their exploits in the world of Chevvys and Thunderbirds . |
| 3 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 4 | Of all the countries in southern Africa , Angola is one with the greatest potential . ’ |
| 5 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 6 | By the middle of the century Arkesilas was himself on the run , fleeing from Cyrene via Euesperides to the west , where he was assassinated . |
| 7 | But Qinghua was something of an exception , being China 's top technological university , with better facilities than other institutions and a high level of prestige . |
| 8 | Men , it seemed , were scarcely tolerated in the Jarman household and Mr Hawkins was nothing but a leftover from the days when old Mr Jarman was alive . |
| 9 | ‘ What part of Ireland are you from ? ’ she had asked , at length . |
| 10 | I am a real big fan and Bet Lynch is something of a heroine but I do n't think there are any similarities between Bet and Raquel . |
| 11 | K. Is it worth it ? |
| 12 | But on this issue Spain is something of an exception . |
| 13 | Songs on the album include Patsy Cline 's Crazy and Gloria Estefan 's Anything For You . |
| 14 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 15 | Alicia Lockwood was nothing to him , merely a connection with his wife 's first husband . |
| 16 | But the truth is , that in his own day , Darwin was something of , of a Lamarckian . |
| 17 | The truth is , that Darwin was something of , of a Lamarckian in his own lifetime . |
| 18 | Unfortunately Dunbar was nothing like a full day 's ride from Dalwolsey , barely twenty miles , and by fair roads ; and Fraser , a grizzled veteran , was scarcely the man to try to involve in an unnecessary overnight stop in the interests of romance , however chivalric . |
| 19 | To Lord John , Sharpe was nothing but a killer who had been trained and hardened to death on innumerable battlefields , while Lord John had only ever brought about the death of foxes . |
| 20 | She knew she had nothing to feel guilty about despite her attraction to Luke , having resisted him , but his relationship with Cavell was none of her business really , and whether Luke finally confessed that he had intended to be unfaithful or Cavell discovered it for herself , she did n't want to have to feel responsible for any eventual break-up . |
| 21 | Cameroon was something of an exception in having a number of privately owned papers : L'Echo du Cameroun , Dialogue , Le Petit Camerounais and Les Nouvelles du Mungo . |
| 22 | January 1992 : Following an agreement signed with City & Guilds of London Institute , HCIMA was itself to be an awarding body for National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQs ) . |
| 23 | They turn round and say to me , they never say Stoke on Trent , they turn round and say to me , what part of Yorkshire are you from ? |
| 24 | In south-west Hertfordshire one in seven of the working-class boys secured entry to a grammar school , compared with one in two of the sons of clerks ; the corresponding proportions in Middlesborough were one in eight and one in three . |
| 25 | So that the annual average rate of provision of dwellings in North Yorkshire is something like three thousand one hundred and eighty two dwellings . |
| 26 | We have n't blagged a copy for review yet , but if ‘ The Fender Book ’ from the team of Tony Bacon and Paul Day is anything like their ‘ Ultimate Guitar Book ’ , it 'll be a real goodie . |
| 27 | Of course Kirillov is anything but a normal human being ; and that is just the point . |
| 28 | Well George Roper is there on the twenty eighth of March . |
| 29 | Er racking damage , Carrie 's who in bay one and two , came to me this morning and said the the racking that he checks it every morning when he comes at six or wh Six seven , whenever he starts . |
| 30 | Yet Quisling was anything but a joke to the people he fought so hard to betray . |