Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 2 | This , and most of what follows , is regulated by the Representation of the People Acts , the most important by far of which is the 1983 Act , ( ‘ the 1983 Act ’ hereafter ) . |
| 3 | Below it are the two brilliant Pointers , Alpha and Beta Centauri ; Alpha , the nearest of all the bright stars beyond the Sun , is well above zero magnitude , so that only Sirius and Canopus outshine it . |
| 4 | So that ma er in any case they 'd of got some of it being the two colours . |
| 5 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 6 | ‘ With him are the Twelve Lords of Evil — each one the embodiment of the world 's great wickednesses . |
| 7 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
| 8 | At that point , the mother came in carrying a large tray on which were the four suppers . |
| 9 | There is another leitmotif in this funny , happy ballet , the precious red umbrella , Alain 's only love — or so it would seem — for it is the one thing he clings to and simply has to find when he has lost Lise . |
| 10 | Among them are the four remaining pictures shown by Betty Parsons , whose checklist notes seventeen works , the complete set of five White Paintings conceived in 1951 and recreated , under Rauschenberg 's instructions , by Brice Marden in 1968 , twelve Black Paintings , three gold leaf paintings , fifteen collages created in Rome and North Africa in the last months of 1952 , and thirteen box sculptures incorporating stones , thorns , an insect and other material . |
| 11 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 12 | I would say next meeting is at it 's the one time we 're going to have one . |