Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the other four , the early history of the kadilik of Damascus is readily traceable in Ibn Tulun 's on the particular point of its status , the evidence is somewhat ambiguous . |
| 2 | Royal attempts , such as Ine 's in the seventh century or Edgar 's in the tenth , to promulgate codes could only meet with success where local practices were not too obviously threatened . |
| 3 | Laughton is in the hottest of hot-seats in Rugby League but at least he has been spared the indignity of the bookies taking bets on his possible successor , as has happened to Souness . |
| 4 | COLIN MONTGOMERIE is in the best possible frame of mind this week as he makes yet another attempt to win a golf title in 1992 . |
| 5 | Rebecca 's with the two little ones is n't she ? |
| 6 | Frank 's son Andy is in the current United squad and played in the Rotherham defeat . |
| 7 | It is one of the few places ( in this book ) where a car is not an absolute necessity : Alnmouth is on the main London-Edinburgh rail line and the village has an excellent local bus service . |
| 8 | ‘ And Masala 's in the other room . |
| 9 | The house of Neill & Co. had patented their own , and since this was one of the offices that most whole-heartedly recruited women , a number of the women compositors at Neill 's in the 1870s were set to work the machines . |
| 10 | O'Leary is in the second year of a leisure management course at West London Institute where he says he is adjusting to minor celebrity status . |
| 11 | I 'm joined by Phyllis Starkey , she 's the leader of the Oxford City Council , the leader of the Labour Group , and Michael Wright is from the Liberal Democrats , and Queenie Warley is a former mayor and she 's from the Conservative benches . |
| 12 | ‘ Right now , I do n't think there 's a world No 1 — just a list of very good players , and Gazza is among the top group , which includes Van Basten , Gullit , Baresi and Careca . |
| 13 | Though Barney is on the capacious constituency 's right wing , its friendliness is both non-political and rain resistant . |
| 14 | According to information received from usually reliable sources , ‘ Sunny Jim ’ Hawkins is on the other side of that door with a whole room full of white powder . |
| 15 | ‘ The Rheingrill at the Hilton 's about the best in town . ’ |
| 16 | To read Gregory of Tours ' History of the Franks or Bede 's of the English people , or a poem like Beowulf , is to experience a world in which the new and the traditional , in culture and in religion , in law and institutions , are inextricable . |
| 17 | Royal attempts , such as Ine 's in the seventh century or Edgar 's in the tenth , to promulgate codes could only meet with success where local practices were not too obviously threatened . |
| 18 | Over the years most of the stations and lines in the region have been dismantled but Wainfleet is on the main ‘ trippers ’ line to Skegness . |
| 19 | Before we get down to examining this unusual and highly specialised guitar , it 's worth mentioning once again that there are two Manson brothers , behind two quite separate operations : Hugh is in the solid electric guitar business , while Andy makes acoustics , electro-acoustics and carved arch-top jazz guitars . |
| 20 | TELECOM is among the international players whose long-term business strategies depend on an ability to turn today 's research into tomorrow 's marketable products . |
| 21 | Mel Croucher wrote an article on it called ‘ Software Sexism ’ , and Miss W is on the same level . |
| 22 | Her portrait by Sir William Nicholson is in the National Portrait Gallery and his painting of her famous boots in the Tate Gallery . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , actually , Ace is from nineteen eighty-six , Benny is from the twenty-fifth century , and I 'm not from this planet at all . |
| 24 | Although the emphasis of the Poema is on the heroic qualities of El Cid , we have a more fully rounded portrait of his life , marriage , family and exile . |
| 25 | Hunter can not play for the Saints but Bayfield is in the second row . |
| 26 | IBM is among the earliest customers . |
| 27 | In line with commitment to quality , Burston is in the early stages of BS5750 registration which has also involved looking closely at the way we operate and how services to customers throughout the region can be improved . |
| 28 | I mean Flaxton 's beyond the six-mile limit for the greenbelt . |
| 29 | For the southern maps , of course , everything is reversed with respect to the northern hemisphere , and in Orion we find that Rigel is to the top left of the main pattern and Betelgeux to the lower right . |
| 30 | The Church of England is behind the Baptist Union in halting its decline : the Baptists turned the corner between 1980 and 1985 , and thereafter saw a slight growth in membership . |