Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EPA is within the jurisdiction of the Fish and Wildlife Service and is an agency of the Interior Department . |
| 2 | And when he came back he got a job in Marks and Spencer 's on the shop floor . |
| 3 | They are still trying to trace the owner of a metallic blue Vauxhall Carlton which was parked near Pinky 's on the day of Lynne 's death . |
| 4 | UNIVERSITY of Ulster girl Sharon Cunningham is on the road to Rio . |
| 5 | Huddled over the coffee balloon with Joe , Luke asked after Jeff , and Joe said , ‘ Jeff 's off the poem ’ , and Luke just nodded . |
| 6 | Now that Jeff 's in the picture , it means I can back off a little and stop feeling quite so responsible for Silvia . ’ |
| 7 | The Herberg zum Goldenen Luwen is on the site of an inn which was active five hundred years ago . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Carne is in the office . ’ |
| 9 | The famous Old Roses Brewery premises at Malton is on the market at £300,000 . |
| 10 | We ca n't read half of these , I mean , why is it Donna 's at the top of the list ? |
| 11 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin has denied that his former Leeds teammate Tony Currie is on the way to Feethams . |
| 12 | — DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin has denied that his former Leeds teammate Tony Currie is on the way to Feethams . |
| 13 | Sunday trading laws allow fancy goods to be sold in souvenir shops , but the complaint against the Trust at Blickling is about the sale of clothing and plant holders . |
| 14 | David 's on the ball |
| 15 | and then Jasmine Flowers is in the corner , and then the salon is just at er it joins on to Jasmine Flowers . |
| 16 | French environmental party Les Verts is on the verge of a schism between members prepared to contemplate an alliance with the Socialists and a rebel group backed by party spokesman and former presidential candidate Antoine Waechter . |
| 17 | Among them were teams from the Crusaders fanzine Where Cornerboys Collect , the Linfield publication , One Team in Ulster and Larne 's Under the Moon . |
| 18 | Life membership of the Bailies is at the bargain price of £1 ( yet they say north-east folk are mean ! ) |
| 19 | Nor those dreadful factory hooters , Mr Colclough 's from the foundry , Mr Lord 's answering it , her husband 's from the top of the hill , Ben Braithwaite 's intruding as stridently as his mother 's purple taffeta dresses from the other side of town , each one of them blasting out its five minute warning as to the pains and penalties of being late . |
| 20 | Angus Wilson 's Hemlock and After ( 1952 ) , John Wain 's Hurry On Down ( 1953 ) , Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim ( 1954 ) , Iris Murdoch 's Under the Net ( 1954 ) , John Braine 's Room at the Top ( 1957 ) , Alan Sillitoe 's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1958 ) , and David Storey 's This Sporting Life ( 1960 ) are all first novels in which a lone male protagonist tries to find a means of accommodating himself to a society whose main institutions he views with suspicion . |
| 21 | Now the United States is on the verge of bombing Iraq on the pretext that Iraq refuses to destroy its ‘ weapons of mass destruction ’ — when , in fact , Iraq has asked that some of its military industry be converted to civilian production laid waste by allied bombing . |
| 22 | AIRLINE boss Richard Branson is on the verge of victory against British Airways rival Lord King after claiming a ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign had been waged against Virgin Atlantic . |
| 23 | RESTAURANT group Simpsons of Cornhill is on the verge of being swallowed up by holiday and printing company Baldwin in a deal worth £1.7m . |
| 24 | But the result at Anfield is in the lap of the gods . |
| 25 | The view from the top of the hill near Lungawater is worth the trip . |
| 26 | I in fact now , he does n't smoke when Madge is in the room . |
| 27 | At the top of Victoria Peak , JK 's on the Peak ( ) is the local for Hong Kong 's swankiest residents . |
| 28 | In coming months , Max may be spending a bit more time in the country , as Sinitta is on the brink of signing a world-wide recording contract and a movie deal . |
| 29 | The best access from this area of central Dalmatia to the upper course of the Cetina in Sinjsko Polje is from the coast at Split via Solin ( Salona ) and the steep defile at Klis . |
| 30 | Both tribes were to be scattered , but Levi 's as the nation 's priesthood . |