Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Those very nice men from the Automobile Association are among the top Yuletide earners — their average £30 a day will quadruple to £120 . |
| 62 | The ancient Mill House and Pond are in the heart of the settlement of Swanage , first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( 877 ) . |
| 63 | The Lanarkshire side are on a tidy run that has seen them lose only one of their last ten matches and they now have a strong squad to choose from after the massive injury problems of earlier in the season . |
| 64 | Burks & Hare are on the road with the Addams Family and the cast of Macbeth — all the funeral of the fair ! — and you 're stuck with the Inspiral Carpets , The Real People and Family Gotown . |
| 65 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 66 | Much data in geography are in the form of counts , and a frequent question of interest is the relation of an average count to a set of explanatory variables . |
| 67 | The Revenue are of the view that a taxpayer 's home ( even if a rented flat ) can be his main residence even if he does not own it . |
| 68 | Mountain Crash has been off the course since his Cottenham run , but may reappear in the Ladies ' Open , in which recent winners Easy Over , Royal Sting , Shedid and Takeover Bid are among a good entry . |
| 69 | Perhaps , for reasons we do not understand , the patterns of interconnections in the smell-brain are under a more versatile system of genetic control , and this allowed the rapid evolution of the neocortex , facilitating the neopallial explosion . |
| 70 | SUDBURY Rugby Club are at the forefront of a campaign to give minnows of the new national league set-up a bigger slice of the game 's sponsorship cake . |
| 71 | United have the smallest squad in professional football … just 16 players … they 're all free transfers … but the good news is that the club are in the black … they 've money in the bank and rarin to go |
| 72 | Unlike the civilian quality control inspectors of the Department of Technical Control ( OTK ) , whose salary arrangements link them effectively to their enterprises , the voyenpredi are in every sense the agents and servants of their respective services . |
| 73 | Details of some of the programme are in the Calendar of Events . |
| 74 | ‘ The Opposition are against the creation of specially-favoured categories based on status or affluence , ’ he said , and would vote against Mr Hurd 's proposals . |
| 75 | I suspect that the Opposition are in the same muddle on this as on every other issue — including taxation , over the past three weeks . |
| 76 | He borrowed a guitar half-way through the band 's set at Leeds ' Astoria Centre and announced to the audience : ‘ This one might sound a bit strange , the dots on the neck are in a different place . ’ |
| 77 | The abbey ruins and battlefield are in the care of English Heritage . |
| 78 | The bed and bedhead are from the same era and are made of brass . |
| 79 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 80 | In sections 6.2 and 6.3 it was established that time-dependent potential differences across the secondary and primary windings of a unity-coupled , lossless transformer are in the same ratio as the turns ratio between these windings . |
| 81 | He declared that ‘ discipline , order , morality and civilisation are on a higher level out there than in China ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 82 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 83 | Although the visitors ' centre at Furnace Creek , the scenically-stunning Zabriskie Point and the Death Valley National Monument are across the border in California , they are an easy drive from Las Vegas , the nearest major city . |
| 84 | Essentially the best tennis game I have played on any computer , the graphics and characterisation are in a class of their own . |
| 85 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 86 | It makes a triangle with Beta and 16 Libræ ( 4.5 ) ; using × 7 , Delta and Beta are in the same field , but Beta and 16 are not . |
| 87 | The particular forms of the study are on the transition to old age and the process of ageing . |
| 88 | ‘ If the savings by the closing are in the order that the authorities are suggesting , then the small payment being suggested would appear to make a lot of financial sense , while at the same time recognising the very valuable contribution of men who have given many years of service . ’ |
| 89 | If Hizir Bey held a muftilik in Istanbul at all , then-and this is by no means certain-the reasonable conclusion both from the silence of the great majority of Turkish sources on the subject of Hizir Bey 's muftilik and from the evidence indicating Fahreddin Acemi 's preeminence vis-a-vis Hizir Bey is that the claims made by d'Ohsson and Hammer for Hizir Bey 's importance in his capacity as mufti are at the least exaggerated . |
| 90 | Provision and guidance are at the discretion of the sensitive adult . |