Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One question is certain to be why commission income of about £70 million a year from timber felling is not more than £80 million . |
| 2 | Italy has also provided extensive coverage , while in New Zealand there has been almost saturation screening of races , no doubt fuelled by the hope that , although the All Blacks and their cricket team failed to win their respective World Cups , New Zealand sailors can go all the way and clinch the oldest international sporting trophy in the world . |
| 3 | It is also the case that the president 's unfalteringly outsider style of leadership tended to make worse an already difficult predicament . |
| 4 | Racing 's only Sunday meeting of the year is to be staged at Lingfield Park on 1 August . |
| 5 | Precisely who first devised the conical form of the sail on the special stunters that followed out of California and Hawaii is not recorded.The camber of the sail was natural anyway , the Radcliffe bridle had established the bridle points , but the new designers ( Tony Cyphert and Don Tabor are often credited ) added the rear cross-spar and this permitted the trihedron bridle which also absorbed the strain on glass fibre spars . |
| 6 | The abortion obsession is in danger of becoming a bore , but open minds will take to By-Pass Syndrome , not least because of the title track 's delightfully nave rejection of the road-building craze . |
| 7 | He added to many existing houses and castles , but his finest design is probably Stracathro House of 1828 with its noble Corinthian portico . |
| 8 | Joyce Preston , who is also theatre manager of the Murrayfield Hospital in Thingwall , Wirral , said : ‘ Several weeks before Paula died I came on duty and Eddie was waiting at the theatre . |
| 9 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |
| 10 | They were commissioned by John Cox who worked with Hockney at Glyndebourne and who is now Production Director of the Royal Opera . |
| 11 | The alternative to Regan 's typically liberationist view of animals , which I have argued for in this book and summed up in the concluding section of Chapter 6 , is that animals are primitive creatures . |
| 12 | The Glasdir deposit is about 2km south of Coed y Brenin . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ We are now living in a post-apartheid era and it is about time member of the Labour group came to realise that . ’ |
| 14 | Cohn-Bendit is today deputy mayor of Frankfurt . |
| 15 | ‘ Is n't Ricky kind of old to play Florizel ? ’ asked Luke . |
| 16 | Mr Widmer Bus company to sue councils over ‘ £800,000 debts ’ A bus company is to sue three Cleveland boroughs over what it claims is almost £800,000 worth of unpaid debts . |
| 17 | This being so , there is virtually 100% transmission of each Fourier component of the signal with each component suffering a phase shift of β per section , where β is given by equation ( 9.23 ) or ( 9.27 ) . |
| 18 | Which is why Londoners north of the Thames think going south of the river is like stumbling into the left-over servants ' quarters , down in the basement where decent folks do n't go . |
| 19 | Mr Clark will be succeeded by Mr David Davies , who is currently deputy chairman of Charter Consolidated and a former chief executive of merchant bank Hill Samuel , now owned by TSB . |
| 20 | Mr Clark will be succeeded by Mr David Davies , who is currently deputy chairman of Charter Consolidated and a former chief executive of merchant bank Hill Samuel , now owned by TSB . |
| 21 | Mr Lansley , who is currently policy director of the Assocication of British Chambers of Commerce and was Mr Norman Tebbit 's private secretary when he was party chairman . |
| 22 | When the outburst comes it is very effective.The lyricism of Tennyson 's poetry is magnificent . |
| 23 | In 1970 there was only $7 billion-worth of high-yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top-notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market . |
| 24 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
| 25 | Hayman was appointed CMG in 1963 , and the next year became Minister in Berlin , where he was also Deputy Commandant of British Military Government . |
| 26 | Chief mason at Westminster Abbey from 1516 , he was also master mason of the chancel of St Margaret 's church , built for Abbot John Islip [ q.v. ] |
| 27 | ( He was also Lord Mayor of the city in 1716 . ) |
| 28 | And why was n't Novell part of the word for Windows best-test program . |
| 29 | Some time after this , Mullova went to live in Vienna with Claudio Abbado , who was then music director of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 30 | The research was conducted by the authors of the article , one of whom ( TM ) was then Team Manager of the CPT and the other ( BM ) on a full-time secondment as a team member from her post as Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Huddersfield Polytechnic . |