Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A truly democratic government would have realised the populace was against the tax and abandoned it immediately . |
| 2 | The total effort required to design and build the system was of the order of fourteen man years . |
| 3 | Her father owned the butcher 's in the Portobello Road . |
| 4 | Taking all sources of error into account Crowson concluded that the total error in using the tube was of the order of 5 per cent . |
| 5 | The best way to see the City is from the canals and we have included a ‘ Canal Bus ’ Pass , valid for the whole day around the famous canals ; this pass allows you to get off and on at a selection of stops for you to explore the city . |
| 6 | ‘ The guys who could make the breakthrough are in the 15–17 age bracket . |
| 7 | Caroline Willbourne , a London barrister specialising in family law , said decriminalisation of sexual offences within the family where the offender admitted the abuse was in the interests of child victims . |
| 8 | Between R&D and manufacturing the overlap is on the design of the new product . |
| 9 | I mean the thing is at the age of sixty he has no conception of what it 's like to be your age at this period . |
| 10 | ‘ I should think the boot 's on the other foot when it comes to corruption , dear girl . |
| 11 | Did he think the devil was on the other side of the net ? |
| 12 | ‘ And if I do n't think the information 's worth the cost ? ’ |
| 13 | The details of public-sector funds ' investment in the stockmarket are kept murky , the better to make folk think the market is on the mend . |
| 14 | Others unashamedly hugged each other as they realised the Government was off the hook , if only for the moment . |
| 15 | But there are no such existences. 'That the cat is on the mat' does not denote an entity as 'the cat' denotes a cat . |
| 16 | But Mr Stewart maintained the fault was with the plane and wrong signals had been sent to the flightdeck . |
| 17 | I was surprised how well behaved the cat was on the bank for it hardly moved , out with the camera , click and back she went none the worse for her mistake . |
| 18 | According to the Save The Children Fund the country was on the edge of famine and was about to " plummet into large-scale death from malnutrition " . |
| 19 | The idea that a re-distribution of wealth could stimulate the economy was at the heart of Huey Long 's " share our Wealth " scheme , launched in 1934 . |
| 20 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 21 | On a day in autumn Ruth told her aunt , ‘ They say the cholera 's on the wane now . |
| 22 | Cos , I say the car was down the road . |
| 23 | ‘ I like the cobbling , that and driving the van is about the only work I 'm fit for , having very little brains for the counting and stock taking . ’ |
| 24 | He said he believed the Emperor was with the troops on the Brussels road , but he had not personally seen him . |
| 25 | The burden of proof in establishing the defence is upon the defendant on the balance of probabilities . |
| 26 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 27 | And later , when they had mentioned the unicorn to the Friar his eyes had become angry and he had demanded to know what reason they had for believing the unicorn was in the forest and had not been calmed until they explained . |
| 28 | Frame Technology Corp , San Jose warns that it will likely report a first quarter loss on revenues 15% to 20% below analysts ' expectations of $20.5m ; it did $770,000 net or $0.07 per share on $13.3m a year ago and says the shortfall is from the Frame North America distribution organisation ‘ which has experienced lower than expected sell-through ; ’ business projections are on target for Europe and OEM units but it is restructuring the North American sales organisation , establishing a separate sales division to focus on direct corporate sales . |
| 29 | The MEC says the secret is in the drying : hair should be thoroughly towel dried , so the rinse can saturate the hair without being diluted . |
| 30 | Mike says the secret 's in the eclectic mix of music , which intersperses house classics with New York garage and European beats . |