Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the 31 pits on British Coal 's hit list is Point of Ayr , near Prestatyn , where the jobs of 478 are on the line . |
| 2 | Of the MPR 's members 500 are from the House of Representatives ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat — DPR ) , the country 's legislative organ , and the remaining 500 are government appointees ( often from the armed forces ) , delegates of regional assemblies and representatives of parties and groups , the latter appointed in proportion to their elective seats in the DPR . |
| 3 | Currently , records back to 1986 are on the system , and retrospective cataloguing will be carried out from data picked up at the loans desk when books are issued , so that we will have records for all material in current use . |
| 4 | The Eider and the Shell Tern and North Cormorant platforms also on alert are in the Shell Brent Field 100 miles north east of Lerwick in the Shetlands . |
| 5 | Detailed discussion of restrictive trade practices which are regulated by anti-trust laws such as the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 are beyond the scope of this work . |
| 6 | PAYOUTS of up to £1 million each are on the way for survivors of the M1 air crash . |
| 7 | The RFU is recruiting youth development officers and , of the 11 so far appointed , eight are in the North . |
| 8 | A pair of cloches made by Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers in 1770 are from the Orloff service and are expected to bring FFr800,000–1.2m ( £80–120,000 ; £140–210,000 ) . |
| 9 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 10 | Quite a few are from the madrigal group , or people Tom 's got to know through it . ’ |
| 11 | Many of the traditional monopolies applicable in the legal profession are under attack and some are on the point of disappearing . |
| 12 | Ann says someone will tell us when she comes back , some are with the church cos I know there is a service on today and them ones downstairs from but Ann says they 're going away just later on so there 's no point in going down , mm , now is there ? |
| 13 | Rulers of the oil-rich Trucial States in the Middle East have access to almost unbelievable wealth , and some are in the process of transforming patches of desert into architectural playgrounds . |
| 14 | Another 30 are in the embassy in Prague . |
| 15 | Could this be at the end of the vacuum-packed salami syndrome ? ’ |
| 16 | It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot . |
| 17 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 18 | That 's alright , that 's ok were in the garden |
| 19 | On May 23 the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs , Dhari Abdullah al Othman said that the trails " currently taking place in public were within the framework of the law " and described as " tendentious " reports which suggested otherwise . |
| 20 | Remember we are concerned eventually to account for the repeatable contribution constituents make to the significance of signals involving them ; this being of the essence when syntax is recursive , or creative . |
| 21 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 22 | Formerly , the villagers used to eat turtle eggs and flesh , despite this being against the law . |
| 23 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 24 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 25 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 26 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 27 | Some of the organisations studied had upgraded the status of large numbers of their temporary workers for this reason in the past , some were in the process of doing so . |
| 28 | By mid-February only 47 thrifts had been closed or sold , another 300 were under the management of the Resolution Trust Corporation ( RTC ) and 200 more were expected to be taken over soon . |
| 29 | Half of the sentences were of the form B because A ( as in the above example ) , and half were of the form Because A , B ( e.g. , Because the sun started to shine , the snowman started to melt ) . |
| 30 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |