Example sentences of "[prep] be [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister has told the Conservative Party Conference that the things he cares most about are stability at home and in Europe , Education , and Britain 's long-term economic strength . |
| 2 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 3 | Some things to look for are blade of grass , stone , buttercup or daisy , twig , used match , and other items that can be found in the area . |
| 4 | Other areas that I am personally responsible for are Person to Person , an ‘ in depth ’ interview with a member of staff at their home , Amicable Angus/Agnes ( getting someone to come up with an idea ) and Amicable Focus . |
| 5 | Have n't you noticed yet that Thorfinn is prouder of being Earl of Orkney than he is of ruling Scotia ? |
| 6 | NORTHERN Ireland 's Ombudsman , Jill McIvor , was today quizzed on her task of being watchdog over people 's complaints about public services . |
| 7 | the benefit to B is capable of being consideration for B's promise , so that the promise will be legally binding . |
| 8 | What is the point of moving a person who is famous through the world as Chichester to the anonymity of being Archbishop of York ? |
| 9 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 10 | He once had the impossible job of being PA to Ted Heath in sulphurous exile . |
| 11 | Since then , he has crammed in a whole host of charitable activities including being secretary of Cleveland Rotafac Trust , a charitable group set up by the Rotary Club of Guisborough and Great Ayton . |
| 12 | Buddhism started with being morality without worship ; and it is as a system of morality , but of morality as being of inherent obligation , that Buddhism claims to be reckoned among the religions of the world . |
| 13 | Mrs. Mounce busied herself with being kind to Tessa , too . |
| 14 | Two other men will be able to advise him on how to deal with being captain of England AND handle a difficult personal relationship . |
| 15 | Pip has found contentment also by helping Herbert with is life by find and paying for him to start a job . |
| 16 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 17 | It was her perceptions of her kingdom which differed so crucially both from those of earlier kings of Scotland ( and , indeed , of her son James VI , who as James I was to infuriate his English subjects by his insistent interest in Scotland , and by his belief that his importance lay not in being king of England but in being a leading European monarch ) , and from those of her subjects . |
| 18 | One area of neglect which has not been touched upon is expenditure on research and development . |
| 19 | Just supposed to be word for word but it 's a bit of a erm Right , filling in booklet 's a er a bit of a pain . |
| 20 | Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ? |
| 21 | Her administrations were headed first by the " duumvirs " , Godolphin and Marlborough , and from 1710 by Robert Harley ( soon to be Earl of Oxford ) , none of whom were conventional party men ( although Harley , a former Whig , can essentially be regarded as a Tory by Anne 's reign ) , and her governments often contained men from both sides of the party divide . |
| 22 | Rhee was stated to have adopted ‘ A more cunning policy for deceiving the Korean people ’ ; Rhee 's diverse tactics were all designed to enhance his ambition to be dictator of Korea . |
| 23 | There is bound to be conversation about direction . |
| 24 | ‘ My first aim has to be success with Llanelli but now that I 've accepted this position I 'm going to be totally committed to developing Welsh rugby ’ . |
| 25 | Since capital is divided between different sectors ( monopoly , non-monopoly , productive , commercial , financial and merchant ) , and because the state itself is a complex ensemble of different agencies responding to these divisions and the class struggle , there is bound to be conflict of interest over state policy . |
| 26 | Insiders will be crushed by the PLO military , there is bound to be conflict between insiders and outsiders . |
| 27 | Victorians like George Eliot did not need to be expert in iconography ( the reading of this painting is still disputed ) in order to sense in such interiors a spiritual meaning in material things . |
| 28 | How easy it is to be expert in theory ! |
| 29 | She concluded by saying she was proud to be Chancellor of Salford . |
| 30 | In May 1269 Queen Eleanor , Edward and Edmund the king 's sons , and Guy de Lusignan , the king 's half-brother , persuaded Henry III to appoint his nephew Henry of Almain to be constable of Rockingham castle and warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , as a return for expenses incurred by him in the king 's service , and for debts owed by the king to him . |