Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Cocks , one of several on 20s. with 6s. 8d. livery , had 3s. 4d. in land and £5 in goods , though all John Sewster of Mursley owned was 20s. in goods ; if the identification is correct he would appear to have been of lower status . |
| 2 | March has been part of the Grand Prix racing scene for more than 20 years , but recent lack of sponsorship has meant staff at Bicester have n't been paid for over 5 months . |
| 3 | In his time Taylor has been part of the North-East 's industrial traditional first as managing director of the now defunct Head facility at Stockton and later at Aycliffe-based Eaton Axles . |
| 4 | Aged 38 , Lina has been secretary to the general manager for three years . |
| 5 | Mr Devaux has been head of chambers at the firm which is soon to drop its name based on the names of partners in favour of the title East Anglian Chambers . |
| 6 | Mr Scott has been chairman of Stockton Council 's planning committee almost constantly since 1974 , says a dire slump in the local economy is enough in itself to sound a death knell for the Tories . |
| 7 | For example , Hemming 's account of lands disputed between the bishopric of Worcester and Evesham Abbey does not accord with other evidence , and nor does the Ramsey chronicle 's version of the difficulties experienced by their abbot early in Cnut 's reign . |
| 8 | Ceauşescu had been part of the leadership under Dej which took the decision to press ahead with devoting enormous resources to industrializing Romania against Khruschev 's wishes . |
| 9 | Those qualities owed little to the opportunities provided by formal schooling or family background : the Pooles had been tanners in the Stowey area since at least the early eighteenth century , and Tom Poole 's father , the eldest of four gifted brothers , ran a large and thriving tanning business from his Castle Street home . |
| 10 | Pinto had been Professor of English at Nottingham since 1938 and oversaw the university 's transition to the autonomous degree-giving status which was achieved ten years later . |
| 11 | For generations , ’ Benjamin 's voice rose , ‘ the lords of Templecombe have been members of the secret Templar organisation . ’ |
| 12 | Although Scotland has been part of the United Kingdom for nearly three hundred years , it has never lost its identity as a separate nation , and Edinburgh has remained the centre of its government , church and law , which itself can provide an incentive to study in the capital . |
| 13 | Mr Lyons has been part of the team which restructured Labour 's industrial policy , the fruits of which were seen in John Smith 's alternative Budget . |
| 14 | Mr Stott has been editor of the Daily Mirror since 1985 . |
| 15 | However , the Bank of England has been party to the arrangements for placing gold and dollar reserves with the EMCF on a three-month temporary basis in exchange for ECUs . |
| 16 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 17 | Mr Heddle had been MP for Mid Staffordshire since 1983 , with a majority of 14,654 in 1987 . |
| 18 | Prosecuting counsel Antonis Georges said Gavin had been treasurer of the Welfare Scheme since 1985 . |
| 19 | Prosecuting counsel Antonis Georges said Gavin had been treasurer of the Welfare Scheme since 1985 . |
| 20 | From this it may be judged that the Chauncys had been friends of the Blencowe family , and that a reference from Susanna Jennens carried weight with them . |
| 21 | Karl Barth had been pastor in Safenwil since 1911 . |
| 22 | In February 1988 , says WG , Mr Carr told WG 's board that Alkar 's sales for the year to January had been £10.4m with a profit of £2.7m . |
| 23 | The first was that , since the eleventh century , the kings of England had been lords of much of north-western France , an area extending from Normandy ( in the time of William the Conqueror ) through Maine , Anjou , Touraine , and Poitou to the duchy of Aquitaine which , a century later , Henry II had come to control through his marriage to the duchess , Eleanor , previously the wife of Louis VII of France . |
| 24 | ( The present writer 's introduction to Wallis Budge 's books on ancient Egypt , long before he could read them with understanding , led him — forty years later — to the temples of Karnak and Luxor and to the Valley of the Kings . ) |
| 25 | The hamlet of Thornholme has been part of Burton Agnes parish since time immemorial . |
| 26 | Kwik Save 's return on capital is the envy of Britain 's supermarkets ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 27 | But Seabrook promises it is a one-off break with Kwik Save 's stance against Sunday trading . |
| 28 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 29 | Niyazov had been leader of the republican Communist Party until it was dissolved at its 25th Congress on Dec. 16 , 1991 , and then became leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Turkmenistan . |
| 30 | But the reaction might have been different if Philip the Fair , rather than St Louis had been king of France at that time . |