Example sentences of "[noun sg] and be [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questioned , Barron had refused to talk to anyone junior to Wickham and even when Wickham went to his hotel he had little to say except that he had met MacQuillan on private business , that it had nothing to do with the murder and was of no interest to the police . |
| 2 | The fourth of Ashby 's proposals consists of the introduction of special incentives to employers , both in the private and public sector , to take on to their payrolls those who have failed to find work , even though they have done everything asked of them — are actively seeking work , registered for a job , been a member of a Job Club and been on an ET course . |
| 3 | The ‘ benefit ’ was in fact a deferred payment , which both tied a player to a single club and was of no value to those who through loss of form or injury were not able to serve the county for a long enough period . |
| 4 | ‘ We also play a major role , of course , in teaching and research and are at the forefront of developments right across the spectrum of medical and surgical care ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ We are desperate to raise funds for research and are in the process of setting up the British Brain Tumour Association . |
| 6 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 7 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 8 | Buddie had taken out his little silver tin and was in the process of rolling one of those thin straggly cigarettes that flared when lit and vanished after only a few puffs . |
| 9 | One album that is sure to bridge the generation gap and be near the top of the charts by the time Santa hitches up his sleigh to Rudolph and friends is 25 Years — The Chain ( WEA ) , an anthology covering the career of Fleetwood Mac . |
| 10 | While the domination of the criminal market was well known within the profession nothing was done for two main reasons : first , solicitors were making a handsome living and were under no pressure to find or create alternative sources of income : and second , there appeared to be no way in which these cartels could be broken by ethical means : |
| 11 | ‘ She had lost a lot of blood and was in a state of shock lying on the footpath at the end of an alleyway . |
| 12 | From next season onwards , the Professional Footballers ' Association permitting and the projected earnings proving correct , the Premier League should have the purchasing power to buy up even more of the available playing talent and be in a position to dominate the FA Cup to a greater extent than usual . |
| 13 | I stabled my own horse and was in the buttery when I heard screams , the crashing of hooves and Vulcan 's neighs . |
| 14 | In those days a mill was sold on the basis of good wind and being near the top of a hill . |
| 15 | Terry Phelan was also in the side and is on the verge of a £2.5 million move . |
| 16 | Only by so doing can he be sure of acquiring a viable holding and be in a position to develop it to achieve its optimum long-term output . |
| 17 | As one who believes that life exists from the moment of conception and is in the image of Christ , I support the petition and am opposed to anything that damages life in the way in which this pill is alleged to do . |
| 18 | Illmitz is such a village and is in the heart of the Seewinkel area , providing an ideal base for our course . |
| 19 | According to Mr Charles , my father had duly driven to one village and was on the point of entering a second when either Mr Smith or Mr Jones noticed the village was Brigoon — that is to say the third , not the second , name of the sequence . |
| 20 | She is still involved in charity work and is on the committee of the South West Durham Macmillan Nurses hospice appeal and is also involved with the NSPCC . |
| 21 | Meirion desperately needed more remunerative work and was on the point of leaving his home town . |
| 22 | The Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 has made some simplification by abolishing one head of liability but it is only a piecemeal attempt to deal with certain deficiencies in the common law and is in no way a code governing interference with goods . |
| 23 | He almost sprang from the window and was down the back stairs and into the yard within seconds . |
| 24 | Man is a primate and is at the top of the range of species , followed by gorillas , orang-utans and chimpanzees ; tarsiers and lemurs represent the lower end of development . |
| 25 | ‘ To have intercourse with a woman who is not your wife is , even today , not generally considered to be a course of conduct which the law ought positively to encourage and it can be argued with force that it is only fair to the woman and not in the least unfair to the man that he should be under a duty to take reasonable care to ascertain that she is consenting to the intercourse and be at the risk of a prosecution if he fails to take such care . ’ |
| 26 | In actual fact I have bent over backwards , I was the only councillor that went and welcomed one of our new ke tenant farmers quite recently , having been on the agricultural environment protection committee and been on a board of er interview panel . |
| 27 | For example , a pupil who is mastering literacy and numeracy with few difficulties will spend a considerable amount of time in the ordinary classroom , but another may need a good deal of specialised help and be at a stage of going to only one or two lessons daily in the fully integrated situation . |
| 28 | It seems reasonably clear , however , that persons who are of Romany origin constitute an ethnic grouping and are within the protection afforded by the Act for that reason . |
| 29 | It is carved out of Purbeck marble and is of a knight in barrel helmet and banded-mail . |
| 30 | The cabinets are closely related to a pair in the Getty Museum and were in the collection of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild at the Schloss Schilldersdorf , Silesia , earlier this century . |