Example sentences of "be [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 2 | There is absolutely no question that there are kind of money advice people in the City sitting around with nothing to do , quite the contrary , so I mean it 's not a duplication , erm and of course we make sure that we that all the people involved in money advice within the City , whether funded directly or indirectly by the City Council , work with each other and co-operate with each other and form a network . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Sergei and I are kind of symbols . ’ |
| 4 | There are other reasons as well , things like peace and tranquillity er time to reflect er and yeah there are other motivations as well which you , if you like , are kind of negative . |
| 5 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 6 | ‘ I am Prince of Wales , after all . ’ |
| 7 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 8 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 9 | The House , as it was simply called , was a profitable little concern and it had been part of Agnes 's work since she had left school , six years ago , to see to the laundry , and with Maggie 's help , to its cleaning . |
| 10 | The hamlet of Thornholme has been part of Burton Agnes parish since time immemorial . |
| 11 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 12 | Since 1965 it has been part of Darwin College . |
| 13 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |
| 14 | Unix System Laboratories , which has never officially been part of X/Open though it 's had a lot of informal dealings with it , is also expected to take advantage of the new technical membership and sign up . |
| 15 | The new state comprised the historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia together with Slovakia which , until 1918 , had been part of Hungary , together with Ruthenia and a northern fringe of the Hungarian plain which , though it was Magyar-speaking , the new state claimed it needed on economic grounds . |
| 16 | Thus , the phenomenon may have been part of variability in English for many centuries — more common perhaps in some dialects than in others , receding at some periods and progressing at others . |
| 17 | Frequently seen on the campaign trail — including Scotland , Wales and Yorkshire — he has not been part of Major 's ‘ A-team ’ for the morning press conferences . |
| 18 | But it had just been part of Isabelle 's patient determination to make Sabine as bilingual as possible . |
| 19 | I just want to be treated honestly and know if I am part of Chelsea 's plans . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Metaphorically it has been an undoubtedly useful skill for the man who has , for the past six years , been chairman of Greater Glasgow Health Board . |
| 22 | Since 1988 he has been chairman of CAFOD . |
| 23 | Before that Ernest Armstrong had been chairman of Sunderland Borough Council 's education committee , responsible for introducing comprehensive schools to the town . |
| 24 | Sir Michael Angus Sir Michael Angus , leader of the Campaign for Resource , has been Chairman of Unilever plc and Vice-Chairman of Unilever NV since 1986 . |
| 25 | Sir Jeremy Morse Sir Jeremy Morse , Chancellor of the University , has been Chairman of Lloyds Bank since 1977 . |
| 26 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance comittee . |
| 27 | He has been chairman of Northants since 1985 , the year Subba Row took over his role at the TCCB , and has served on the board 's finance committee . |
| 28 | He has been Chairman of Tesco since 1985 and is also a non-executive Director of National Westminster Bank . |
| 29 | Having been Chairman of BNFL I would like to contribute as a Chairman in the future … and that , I believe , is how I can make my best contribution . |
| 30 | Still , there had been unity of sorts . |