Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several weeks ago , the board decided the route out of a prolonged crisis had to be via a young , but internationally-experienced coach . |
| 2 | Moving further into the German market would be difficult given the strength of the major players there , and if it does happen , it is likely to be via a joint venture . |
| 3 | As we discovered in asking why clients would use search consultants rather than in-house recruiting , the salary attached to the job has to be above a certain ceiling to justify the fees involved . |
| 4 | In the long term , a dictionary needs to be above a certain size to provide sufficient coverage over a wide range of domains . |
| 5 | The truth was revealed only by chance , when a journalist for the US magazine Sports Illustrated happened to be aboard a boat when it hauled up seven dead porpoises , caught in a single set . |
| 6 | Chivalrous to a fault , the story of his taking only £100 of the £400 he knew to be aboard a stagecoach at Bagshot , on the condition that an attractive lady passenger would dance with him , is authentic . |
| 7 | At the edge of dunes is a two-storey hide , open to the public , which gives wonderful views of the estuary and its birds — for those not lucky enough to be aboard a boat . |
| 8 | Of course these trends may not continue , or new trends may emerge ( for instance higher female unemployment , greater participation of men in caring ) but the long-term trend appears to be towards a smaller pool of potential informal carers than existed 50 or even 20 years ago . |
| 9 | However sympathetic or kind one wants to be towards a family , he ca n't be a social worker . |
| 10 | Which turned out to be towards a taxi , one of the few remaining on the dockside now that most of the passengers had gone ashore . |
| 11 | It is believed to be to a design by Il Pellegrini , although its actual construction was not until a century after the architect 's death . |
| 12 | Other claims used to be to a maximum of £5000 . |
| 13 | It is necessary for normal science to be to a large extent uncritical . |
| 14 | Marriage , though it was to be to a priest , and thus well within her world , represented an escape from her family . |
| 15 | There looked to be over a pound of the delicious , translucent sweets the bag was bursting , spilling over so that a dozen or more lay scattered on the dusty floor , gleaming like diamonds through the wrappers . |
| 16 | ‘ It would appear to be over a former girlfriend . ’ |
| 17 | Inspector Steve Clapham , of Chester Police , said : ‘ His action appeared to be over a former girlfriend . ’ |
| 18 | But it was to be over a month before Dad ‘ turned up ’ again . |
| 19 | For a long time the only way in which a truly selfless behaviour could arise seemed to be through a differential advantage accruing to groups of individuals that showed sacrifice in relation to their companions to a degree greater than in other groups . |
| 20 | The final extension of the system is planned to be through a 2–5 km tramway tunnel , which is unventilated . |
| 21 | Other permanent quadrats were set up by Forrest Shreve ( 1915 ) at the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington at Tucson , Arizona , and it appears to be through a colleague of Shreve , W. A. Cannon , that T. G. B. Osborn was stimulated in 1926 to set up permanent quadrats in heavily used shrub land and a reserve released from grazing at Koonamore in S. Australia ( Osborn , Wood & Partridge , 1935 ; O. B. Williams & Mott , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 23 | The whole valley seemed to be under a spell , in a timeless past unaffected by wars , the scars of industrial development and the trauma of social upheaval . ’ |
| 24 | Christians seem to believe themselves to be under a pressure to find texts in the bible which directly support their case . |
| 25 | We might claim , for instance , to have a right to life because we each have an interest in being alive that is of sufficient importance to justify holding others to be under a duty to respect our lives , and the government to be under a corresponding obligation to reinforce that duty by enacting appropriate laws . |
| 26 | We might claim , for instance , to have a right to life because we each have an interest in being alive that is of sufficient importance to justify holding others to be under a duty to respect our lives , and the government to be under a corresponding obligation to reinforce that duty by enacting appropriate laws . |
| 27 | She said , ‘ You seem to be under a misapprehension . |
| 28 | The judiciary are an estate of the Crown and the servants of statute , and may therefore be supposed to be under a duty to reflect the public will . |
| 29 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 30 | I managed to get rid of about eighty and if we do sell these extra what twenty or thirty that 's going to be between a hundred and a hundred and fifty pounds profit . |