Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition Joey Dunlop , Johnny Rea and new Regal champion Ian King are in the main event . |
| 2 | Swindon are on the right tracks … at the end of the line is Hameenlinan … the last game of the summer tour … |
| 3 | However , the machair lochs of South Uist are amongst the finest trout lochs in the world . |
| 4 | ‘ I only hope that the present stupidity whereby parts of urban Colchester are in the same constituency as the yachting resort of Burnham-on-Crouch is finished with , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Workers in Northumberland are among the poorest paid and twice as likely to earn less than the average for workers throughout the European Community according to a survey by the Northern Region Low Pay Unit . |
| 6 | Wigan 's John Monie , Darryl Van de Velde at Castleford and St Helens ' Mike McClennan are in the final year of their contracts . |
| 7 | Internal matters in Zanzibar are in the exclusive jurisdiction of the Zanzibar executive , the Revolutionary Council of Zanzibar . |
| 8 | The idea of a view and the vision of Boullee are of the same order of thought and sight . |
| 9 | The Col du Somport and the upper valley of the Aspe are at the western end of the Pyrenean National Park — to be exact , a narrow tongue of this extends across on the other , western side of the valley into the ring of mountains forming the Cirque of Lescun . |
| 10 | Stuart Ripley , after a quick recovery , and Andy Payton are among the five candidates . |
| 11 | St Andrews , Strathclyde , Aberdeen , Durham and Dundee are in the highest group in this category , reflecting a research orientation towards the sciences concerned , which include astronomy , materials science , climatology and meteorology . |
| 12 | Worcester , Heretord and Towcester , Warwick and Stafford are among the later English burghs , while the Scandinavian burghs include Derby , Manchester and Leicester . |
| 13 | Vega , Altair and Deneb are in the northern part of the sky , making up what should now be called the ‘ Winter Triangle ’ . |
| 14 | My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths . |
| 15 | Alice In Wonderland author Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling are among the traditional writers making a comeback in a move designed to improve standards of grammar , punctuation and spelling among primary and secondary school children . |
| 16 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 17 | Military personnel were constitutionally debarred from voting , but members of the armed forces belonging to Golkar were among the 500 additional appointees to make up the 1,000-member Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat ( People 's Consultative Assembly ) , which would elect the President and Vice-President in March 1993 . |
| 18 | The cables and accessories that came with MainLan were of the cheap and cheerful variety . |
| 19 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 20 | Manager Alan Murray , assistant manager Eddie Kyle and McAndrew were at the Northern League club at the same time . |
| 21 | LIVERPOOL and Arsenal were among the disappointed clubs yesterday when Andy Awford signed a new contract at Portsmouth . |
| 22 | Jacobitism was a continual destabilising force in British politics under the later Stuarts , so it is vital to consider precisely what impact it had on partisan strife during this period , and exactly how widespread sympathies for the exiled Stuarts were amongst the general population . |
| 23 | Stirling controlled Scotland 's last B international win over France at the Greenyards in 1989 , when the Boroughmuir pair Derek Stark and Peter Wright were in the Scottish party . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Rebecca 's with the two little ones is n't she ? |
| 29 | Frank 's son Andy is in the current United squad and played in the Rotherham defeat . |
| 30 | 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 . |