Example sentences of "and the [noun] [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key . |
| 2 | Large ‘ two line ’ tinplate destination boxes were fixed on stanchions above the ends of the upper deck and the deck screens were of close mesh fine wire . |
| 3 | The surgeon has been and gone , he reckons death probably took place early in the night ; the coroner has been informed , and the scenes-of-crime chaps are on the job … ’ |
| 4 | Notice that , by chance , the N plots tend to be near the top ( ? dry ) end of the field and the K plots are towards the bottom ( ? wet ) end so that we can not be sure that any observed yield difference between N and K is not due to the moisture differential or to natural soil nutrients being washed by rain towards the low end of the field , etc . |
| 5 | They 're sending them out to bookshops all over the country … thousands have already been sold , and the way things are at the moment there does n't look like any let up in sight . |
| 6 | Now the down floor or or the ground floor er th was the girls , and the assembly hall , the big assembly hall , and the boys classrooms were above the girls , you went upstairs , you see onto one wing . |
| 7 | The Seminar Director and the syndicate chairmen are in the front row |
| 8 | Persons and private trusts held somewhat less than 10% of the total and the combined holdings of the banking sector and the building societies were around 5.5% . |
| 9 | The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 10 | And the car parks are to the right and the main entrance is on the left and you just keep going straight on straight on straight on straight on and the bottom left hand corner is casualty . |
| 11 | In the early 1930s the average morning congregation ranged from 72 to 113 and the evening congregations were between 120 and 140 . |
| 12 | And infer that you also should be ‘ absolutely happy ’ about a joint which was actually on the hoof when Maggie Thatcher was in power and the Beastie Boys were in the charts . |
| 13 | The High Altar was painted by J. Hager in 1773 and the patron saints are by V. V. Reiner . |
| 14 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 15 | The plumbing and drainage pipes were all intact and in fairly good condition , but the electrical equipment and the lighting circuits were in need of urgent attention . |
| 16 | Even the tatty Dolphinarium suggests a forgotten fair-ground in the dark , and the pier timbers are like the legs of an artificial dinosaur , sturdy and reassuring in the gloom . |
| 17 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |