Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The angle between the models is in this case preserved , indicating that they have been operated on as if they were a single model rotating about the origin . |
| 2 | The deal done between the Whips was in any case a good one for the Unionists : Coalition Liberals would have a free run in 150 constituencies ( a figure suggested by Guest , but then rigidly adhered to by Younger ) . |
| 3 | One of the problems is at this very stage that the act is so new off the statute book that authorities , at the moment , under all the other pressures they 're having to meet , are only just beginning to put together their new policies . |
| 4 | Over half of the respondents were against this suggestion , with a little over one-third in favour . |
| 5 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |
| 6 | Here there is a wide choice , but the most spectacular and sought-after variety of the whites is without any doubt N. gonnere sometimes referred to as the ‘ snowball ’ . |
| 7 | It is for this reason that the work of the potters is of such interest , in giving us an insight into shifts in taste and , possibly , shifts in the power base too . |
| 8 | As Table 4.6 shows , 32 per cent of male SERC students were looking for work at the end of their courses : 47 per cent of the women were in this position . |
| 9 | Only one of the letters was of any length : like the others it was typewritten , and was labelled by Mr Kronweiser : ‘ Given me by Mrs Hilda Machin , 21 April 1978 . ’ |
| 10 | Many of the voids are in that category not because of a shortage of resources , but because of weak and poor management . |
| 11 | In both cases the practical effect of the monopolies is in most cases to reserve all the work for solicitors ( and in the case of property transfer , licensed conveyancers ) . |
| 12 | Referring their readers to the HMI 's survey of teachers in their first year in the profession , they repeat the survey 's ‘ finding ’ that ‘ the personal qualities of the teachers were in many cases the decisive factor in their effectiveness ’ . |
| 13 | But many of the islanders are against any deal with PNG . |
| 14 | This is interesting , because we know that even in the post-exilic period a considerable proportion of the Jews was for all practical purposes polytheistic . |
| 15 | What he found in most of the drawers was of little immediate interest : personal bank statements , cheque book , an account book in which Riddle kept a record of his investments , another which itemised personal expenditure . |
| 16 | Nigel says the support of the fans is worth half a second a lap and he believes that people power helps him to win |
| 17 | Maggie had drawn a blank , none of the bodies were of those she was looking for . |
| 18 | The house was bounded on its Culver Street frontage by Invicta Terrace — a row of thirteen identical dwellings having two rooms and a scullery downstairs and three bedrooms on the first floor , though none of the rooms were of any size . |
| 19 | Four-fifths of the flags were within half a mile of the Bab es Zuweyla , the Old Gate , near which was both the Blue Mosque of the Dervishes and the old church of the Copts , the Mar Girgis . |
| 20 | In other words , the injury was such that the degree of pain which it produces from day to day throughout the years is at any rate sufficient for experienced medical men to say that the rather drastic operation of arthrodesis would normally be the best thing in the circumstances . |
| 21 | If the judicial function were wholly automatic , then not only would the making of decisions in the courts be of little interest but it would not be necessary to recruit highly trained and intellectually able men and women to serve as judges and to pay them handsome salaries . |
| 22 | Henceforth socialist organisation in the universities was for many years weakened by division between ‘ socialist ’ — i.e. Communist-controlled or influenced-societies and Labour Clubs supporting the Labour Party . |
| 23 | The linguistic acrobatics these words perform in Rusty 's mind and the various interpretations which might be attributed to the results are of less consequence in and of themselves than the fact that this performance demonstrates verbal operations of a logic other than that attributed to the rational mind . |
| 24 | The effects of this on the bones is of some interest for comparison with the effects of gnawing of larger bone by larger predators ( for example , see Bonnichsen , 1973 ; Sutcliffe , 1970 ; Hill , 1975 , 1976 ; Binford , 1981 ; Haynes , 1980 , 1983 ) , for there is direct correspondence between , for instance hyaena gnawing on large antelope bones , wolf gnawing on smaller bovid bones , fox gnawing on small bovids and lagomorphs and shrew gnawing on rodent bones . |
| 25 | Reg On the Buses was like that as well . |
| 26 | This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica . |
| 27 | The bibliographical services officer subsequently ensures that more specialized works not ordered by the areas are at some point put into the stock of the authority as a whole . |