Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun prp] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stalin is reported to have remarked at the end of the war that to establish communist rule in Poland would be like ‘ trying to saddle a cow ’ and Soviet relations with that country ( the largest and most populous in Eastern Europe ) have borne out these apprehensions . |
| 2 | Newham council says that its residents are in favour of the scheme , but will they still support it when they learn that 1,000 homes in Stratford will be at risk from settlement when the railway line goes into a shallow tunnel because of the geological conditions in the area ? |
| 3 | Some prisoners at Long Lartin jail near Evesham in Worcestershire should be in hospital , not a prison cell , say prison officers . |
| 4 | RC schools get extra cash for more classrooms Two Catholic schools in Darlington will be among those to gain from new rules on extra classrooms , the town 's MP said this week . |
| 5 | Various issues arise : ( 1 ) In simple terms , management 's controlling stake in Newco will be worth more than half the total value of Newco . |
| 6 | The Monsal Dale Viaduct was built in 1862 to carry the Midland Railway across the valley of the River Wye , so that , as Ruskin put it , ‘ every fool in Buxton can be in Bakewell in half an hour ’ . |
| 7 | If we have the same legal system even as continental Europe , trade union membership in Britain will be at least two million higher than it is today , but let's not delude ourselves . |
| 8 | He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're famous all over the Far East , so a story about how you kept a secret concubine in Taipei should be worth quite a bit . ’ |
| 10 | Not to allow voters a referendum in Britain would be to ‘ betray the trust … they have placed in us ’ . |
| 11 | An AXA executive confirms that the French insurer wants to invest in UNI , pointing out that gaining a foothold in Scandinavia would be in line with AXA 's strategic aim of becoming a global insurer . |
| 12 | FEARS that a successful adult literacy course in Darlington could be in jeopardy have eased . |
| 13 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 14 | Schoolgirls from Burford and Wood Green in Witney will be in the swim tomorrow for the finals of the National Synchronised Swimming competition . |
| 15 | Cheney emphasized that any reductions in US forces in Europe would be within the context of the CFE talks . |
| 16 | The only proposed narrowing of the road in Lakeside will be at the junction to Hammond Drive , the purpose of which will be to filter the traffic using the junction . |
| 17 | Aerospatiale in France will be in charge of developing a small missile that an individual soldier can carry and use to attack tanks up to 2 km away . |
| 18 | ‘ That does n't seem an awfully big difference , but in fact the cost in Cleveland will be around another million pounds . |
| 19 | One way for Novell to increase its current minority position in USL might be for it convert its shares in Univel , where it controls 51% , into USL stock . |
| 20 | It is ironic that the most interesting group of pre-Romanesque churches in Europe should be in a country largely taken over by the Moslems . |
| 21 | VAT on books could cut sales by a 5Th and up to 200 jobs in Oxford may be at risk . |
| 22 | And about eighty jobs in Swindon may be at risk . |