Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big hook which had once been part of a hanging scales was in the shape of the letter S , and sharpened to a point at both ends . |
| 2 | We need an urgent review , maybe less papers but more information on rights lost and what Labour policies are for the future . |
| 3 | Whether judges are better or less able than others to assess the merits and demerits of political policies is beside the point , because that is not their function . |
| 4 | This book explores the idea of major economic shifts being on the agenda . |
| 5 | Because their nasal openings were on the top of their heads they could even continue to breathe if it became necessary ( see p. 115 ) to totally submerge . |
| 6 | Another kit to test the European authorities is on the way from Neico . |
| 7 | Applications of the technique , commonly known as Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy ( EELS ) , to studies of solid surfaces are beyond the scope of this book . |
| 8 | Finally , it is misleading to suggest that these relationships between government and the various private sectors are of no concern to the local housing authorities . |
| 9 | The private schools are for the élite , mostly in urban areas . |
| 10 | Restaurants , cafes and public houses are outside the ambit of that class of use and planning permission is therefore required . |
| 11 | However , since not all antislavery public meetings were under the aegis of local societies or linked to their establishment , the fact that some abolitionist groups were chary of a ‘ populist ’ style of activity before the early 1830s does not exclude democratic implications from all antislavery usages of meetings . |
| 12 | The late Babylonian astronomers of the fourth and later centuries BC studied the motions of the sun and planets with great care and mathematical ingenuity , but their most detailed investigations were of the moon because the calendar was moon-based . |
| 13 | Administrator Denise Gilgallon said many exciting projects were in the pipeline . |
| 14 | The Court held that the English rule that interim injunctions are not available against the Crown was a barrier to the ‘ effective protection ’ of European rights in English courts , and that English courts are under an obligation to remove such barriers . |
| 15 | In neat liquids and solutions there is little short-range order , and at any instant different molecules are under the influence of randomly-differing local environments . |
| 16 | All she has to do is to walk away , he ca n't walk cos his fore legs are on her back back legs are on the ground . |
| 17 | Secondly , in this chair where the back legs are at an angle to the front , compensation has to be made on the back mortise , otherwise the whole seat frame will end up on the skew . |
| 18 | Do you remember the British warships being in the flow in the first ? |
| 19 | More brave men at Swindon tomorrow … the area 's top fighters are in the ring in Penhill for the Senior Championships … |
| 20 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 21 | Sarah and Elsa with two really crap raggers are on the stage and we do n't really wan na sort of socialize with them so we , basically we 've got nowhere to see this lunchtime . |
| 22 | Further south , different areas were under the control of the Somali Democratic Movement ( ‘ S.D.M. ’ ) and Somalia Patriotic Movement ( ‘ S.P.M. ’ ) and the followers of Siad Barre . |
| 23 | Because the salvaged slates were of a size which is not readily obtainable today , the other roof-slope was reclad with new Welsh slates of conventional ‘ Countess ’ dimensions ; 500x250mm ( 20 x 10in ) . |
| 24 | According to the findings of psycho-analysis , a conflict surrounding unconscious homosexual elements is at the centre of the psychosis known as paranoia ( or paranoid schizophrenia ) . |
| 25 | One of the most interesting articles was on the creation of the modern course . |
| 26 | Despite the weather , the Mayor , Aldermen , and other high officials were on the landing strip to meet ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan and his twin engined Fokker as the storm seemed to clear . |
| 27 | The better houses with two storeys and the public buildings were near the church . |
| 28 | German universities were under the control of the state bureaucracy , which appointed the professors , but they had responded quickly to the specialization of the period with the creation of new chairs . |
| 29 | ‘ Since neither the Canadian or the British governments are in a position to produce the element ‘ 49 ’ ( code name for plutonium ) or ‘ 25 ’ ( code name for uranium-235 ) our interchange has been correspondingly restricted by order from the top . ’ |
| 30 | BRITISH troops are on the brink of being sucked into a war in the blood-stained Balkans . |