Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [be] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tower of Babel was in all likelihood a multi-storeyed temple-tower , or ziggurat , similar to those developed in Babylonia in the early 3rd millennium BC . |
| 2 | Mr. W. E. Gladstone was Prime Minister from 1880 to 1885 but then that post alternated between the Marquess of Salisbury and Mr. Gladstone until the turn of the century , with a short interlude in 1894–1895 when the Earl of Rosebery was in that office . |
| 3 | Even so , they listened , and their disapproval of Wolf was in any case balanced by the enthusiasm of von Humboldt , the brothers Schlegel and , for a time , Goethe too , who " drank to his health " in 1796 in celebration of the study of Homer , corresponded with him , and attended his lectures . |
| 4 | All my staffing costs for Smallwood are in that budget , and therefore I can promise Chair , that it would be extremely well examined . |
| 5 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |
| 6 | It is clear some workers and ex-workers who do develop cancer will question whether their work with SSEB/SNL was in any way responsible . |
| 7 | Less than half of the teachers in secondary schools in Solihull are in any degree familiar with their authority 's booklet for SSE and only one-tenth claim to know it well . |
| 8 | All the Leapors in Brackley are in this area . |
| 9 | Raybestos officials deny that the move to Ireland was in any way connected with the difficulties faced by producers of asbestos products in the US . |
| 10 | Nor can it be contended that this harsh judgement on Socrates was in any way typical of Athenian democracy 's attitudes towards its critics or even its enemies . |