Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm do n't think mum 's in the mood for a quiz read . |
| 2 | In addition , Branch Managers have been requested to ensure that the Underwriting Supt or Section Leader counter-signs the front sheet to confirm payment is within the policy cover . |
| 3 | The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild . |
| 4 | Where you want scholarship is on the inside , not on the boards . |
| 5 | Kursk guberniia was in the famous central Black-Earth area which also covered all , or most of Tambov , Orlov , and Voronezh gubernii , with the southern uezdy of Tula and Riazan' gubernii . |
| 6 | Particularly for the concepts of accountability outlined in Divisions I and II of table 2.1 , an important way to communicate accountability is through the provision of financial , and related , information — financial accountability . |
| 7 | Another technique for delaying ejaculation is for the man to practice tensing his muscles to stop the flow while urinating . |
| 8 | Most of the nationally owned forest is in the western USA and is dominated by softwood , while almost 90 per cent of private commercial forests are in the east where hardwoods are more important ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 9 | It turns out that the minimum cell volume and interstack distance are around the values ( TMTSF ) 2 CO 4 , the only organic salt known to go superconducting at atmospheric pressure . |
| 10 | From the moment the tapes rose Crisp was in the front rank , and by the time the field swept over Becher 's Brook — the sixth fence — he was sharing the lead with Grey Sombrero . |
| 11 | This well-known , centrally located hotel is amongst the most comfortable in Kitzbuhel . |
| 12 | Long coach travel is during the cool early morning |
| 13 | Version 5 however , is expected to include a facility to ‘ knit from the screen ’ , so if your computer and knitting machine are in the same room , you may find this more convenient than printing on to paper . |
| 14 | Range West is in the best hands |
| 15 | Another and widely spread practice is for the head of a laboratory to add his name automatically to any paper published from it , though he may have no contribution at all to the work . |
| 16 | Secondly , legislation could provide that evidence of resistance need not be adduced by the prosecution in order to establish lack of consent and that in those cases where the evidential burden of establishing consent is on the defence , evidence of lack of resistance should not suffice . |
| 17 | A gliding club which lost its home to a new car plant says business is on the up and up . |
| 18 | You know what g how do you feel morale is in the flats at the moment ? |
| 19 | The second major way of expressing bias is in the use of names for groups of people . |
| 20 | The sequence numbering of the met operator is as the description of the DNA fragment in the crystal , where bases 1–8 and 9–16 correspond to consensus met boxes |
| 21 | As usual , Picture Power was at the Grove to bring readers the action from the ‘ Tele-tots ’ gala . |
| 22 | Sexually experienced young people often use effective contraception — 80 per cent of single women using contraception are on the pill . |
| 23 | The most immediate way in which this right of access can be given meaning is through the opening up and maintenance of the Rights of Way network . |
| 24 | But the KGB and the CIA do n't think assassination 's worth the candle any more . |
| 25 | The greatest opportunity for the local party organization to exercise freedom is in the choice of a parliamentary candidate . |
| 26 | We can not afford to be complacent , but I do not believe complacency is in the vocabulary of any one of you . |
| 27 | Not since the Jockey Club was founded 243 years ago has such radical racing reform been in the air and today is also the threshold of a new era which begins with Britain 's betting shops next Thursday . |
| 28 | So adding mandolin is like the old string band concept — it 's just another bunch of intervals . |
| 29 | It also amends the Official Secrets Act to allow someone who had been prosecuted to argue that releasing information was in the public interest . |
| 30 | Then , quite out of the blue , there had come the offer of a job at Marlborough ; for although I had resolved to abandon teaching , I had found , like so many others , that of all the means of earning one 's bread , freelance authorship was among the most precarious . |