Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only tame , domesticated animals could possibly have been part of the goods and chattels of that early band of pioneers , striking out for a new island home . |
| 2 | The life review can provide a means of re-establishing and confirming individual involvement with current reality , and linking their past work and efforts with the social change that has occurred , for in a variety of subtle ways they will have been part of the changes and developments that they are witnessing . |
| 3 | The Christmas tree has been part of the festivities in Britain since the last century . |
| 4 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 5 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 6 | the setting up of continental ( or regional ) courts for human rights are part of a network(s) to promote human rights in Africa . |
| 7 | NOWADAYS , Junior Chamber is an international organisation open to men and women between 18 and 40 years old , who are part of the professions , industry , commerce , and/or the community . |
| 8 | Possibly these birds are part of the flocks which winter in the valleys of the Hampshire Avon and/or Severn . |
| 9 | Land-users are taxed , sell their produce in the market , work for or employ others , have unequal access to land or other agricultural inputs and are part of the processes of agrarian change such as commercialisation , accumulation , disinvestment and differentiation . |
| 10 | learned contributions have been made , and in that connection , I need only refer to some which are part of the appendices for the case before you today , notedly the contribution made following recent research by Mrs on archaeological matters of significance to this particular area . |
| 11 | Erm we do try and be nice to them we do try and give them presents occasionally like little , you may have seen some of them wearing little lions head badges which er are part of the arms of William that we had made . |
| 12 | When pushed , he explained that in his line of work ‘ cutting corners ’ , ‘ fudging ’ , ‘ giving out disinformation ’ and ‘ cheating just a little ’ are part of the rules ( unstated , but there ) of the job . |
| 13 | Because wages are part of the employers ' costs , which they must seek to minimise if they are to survive , workers experience a ceaseless downward pressure on their standards of living . |
| 14 | Yes , they are part of the features of the o open countryside , but in this particular case the proximity of Skelton Village to that boundary and the juxtaposition of the of the of the houses around that area and the er other features make this paddock part and the adjoining part of the more visually part of the village . |
| 15 | The redundancy costs are part of the savings . |
| 16 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 17 | The main business of the company is the manufacture of dyestuffs , and intermediates that are part of the dyestuffs chain . |
| 18 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |
| 19 | ‘ I am Adviser of the Computers , Deems , not a rabble to be addressed . ’ |
| 20 | In a number of cases there has been recourse to the courts by parents anxious to secure appropriate provision for their child in the face of local authority opposition . |
| 21 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 22 | A gesture was similarly made towards the secular opposition , with the appointment as Minister for Transport and Telecommunications of Hashemi Nait Djoudi , who had been secretary-general of the FFS from 1989 until March 1991 , when he was replaced by Ait Ahmed and subsequently ( according to a letter from Ait Ahmed in Le Monde of Feb. 28 ) " suspended from all activity in the name of the party " by the national council of the FFS . |
| 23 | Once he had been chieftain over the lands which had been rewarded to Richard Carew for his services to Oliver Cromwell . |
| 24 | Latterly he has been director of the Actors ' Centre in London . |
| 25 | And in John 19:21–22 : ‘ So the Jewish chief priests said to Pilate , ‘ You should not write ‘ King of the Jews ’ , but ‘ This man said : I am King of the Jews ’ ’ Pilate answered , ‘ What I have written , I have written ’ . ’ |
| 26 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 27 | So far as the Gospels themselves are concerned , Jesus may indeed have been King of the Jews — and/or been so regarded . |
| 28 | To suggest that Jesus may actually have been King of the Jews , is not , therefore , to stand at variance with the evidence . |
| 29 | been kick in the bollocks |
| 30 | I never once saw her drunk and think it may have been water in the evenings too , half the time . |