Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Soon the drivers are in their stride and enjoying every minute of it . |
| 32 | The FA Cup finalists are on their way to Wembley but they can not reproduce their knockout form in bread-and-butter Second Division matches . |
| 33 | Meanwhile , state reserves are at their lowest in decades . |
| 34 | pounds a week , you know , you know the kids are off your hand pounds a week would pay your , would just cover your er your food bill . |
| 35 | Most recreation facilities like swimming pools and sports halls are under their control . |
| 36 | Sometimes disputes are about their own boundaries — such as arguments over fencing — and sometimes they are about land in common ownership , anything from a medieval village green to a modern multi-storey car park . |
| 37 | Her nipples are in her armpits , so she keeps her wings close to her sides as far as she can and lashes out with her feet and bites those that pester her . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ? |
| 40 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 41 | There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) . |
| 42 | Every fifteen days , when the spring tides are at their peak , vast numbers of grunion ride in on the crests of waves and deliberately strand themselves on the shore . |
| 43 | The result of the vote is at least a hopeful sign that sexist dinosaurs are on their last legs in the 20th Century . |
| 44 | The pictures are in my head should they never end up on paper . |
| 45 | WC apps : 7 The Scots are in their fifth successive World Cup and would presumably go along with the Olympian sentiment about taking part being more important than winning . |
| 46 | Kevin Burke , chairman of the cooperative , said : ‘ The message to everyone tempted to follow our example must be that if the final homes are worth your time and trouble , they are worth the wait . |
| 47 | The rods are on their way to Sellafield where the uranium will be recovered for future use . |
| 48 | ‘ His strengths are in his coaching skills — training methods , tactics and motivation . |
| 49 | Relationships are at their most transformative stage , and after the 14th you should be reaping the harvest of love 's labours or indeed digesting the results of your efforts in other directions . |
| 50 | His most emotional words were about his fellow hostage and friend who he called John boy . |
| 51 | Gareth Hall was an emergency left back and the fans were on his back when he miskicked a ball . |
| 52 | The lakes were at their lowest levels for 20 years , and Chew was lower than I can ever remember . |
| 53 | The Hurricanes dived on them , but at once the escorting fighters were on their tails ; at least two ‘ convoys ’ were noted of Ju87 , Hurricane , Bf109E in line astern , all firing . |
| 54 | Aristocratic influences were at their height during the first half of the nineteenth century and in any diplomatic service were always most marked at the highest levels . |
| 55 | Two more Red Snappers were on their way . |
| 56 | These teenagers were in his experience a lot less tough than they looked . |
| 57 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 58 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 59 | The First World War curtailed his ambitions but after the hostilities his cars were at their peak and invincible . |
| 60 | But Germany has been peaceful because the East Prussians were under our control . |