Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The last Brownie to reach that place and any Brownies who run in the wrong direction are out of the game . |
2 | Oils rallied several pence now that the anticipated lower-earnings from BP and Shell are out of the way . |
3 | The Wantage white horses swim club are off to the Palace tomorrow … that 's the Crystal one … world number one Mark Foster is coaching them for the day … |
4 | It is clear that if the Hohenzollern candidature were out of the way , peace would be assured . |
5 | I 'd pay for it myself but my card 's up to the limit . ’ |
6 | Current street prices for an SVGA card is down at the £30 level . |
7 | Er , the recommendation is on about the fourth |
8 | ‘ It 's not the end of the world if we draw , but I think defeat is out of the question . ’ |
9 | As spraying is out of the question , the pool owner must resort to gathering all damaged floating foliage . |
10 | No other sort of mind is up to the demands of the system , which needs to seem to have judicial impartiality and a rocklike permanance while also being quickly responsive to the latest political fads . |
11 | Now the search is on for the best container display in Britain . |
12 | Once more the search is on for the woman with the most beautiful hair — could it be you ? |
13 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
14 | The search is on for the best pancake tosser in the North . |
15 | If part of the spring is out of the end of the pipe , twisting it ( with a screwdriver through the loop ) can help remove it . |
16 | , do you know what we spent , listen , listen , mummy do this , we spent a Christmas in Hungary right , their Christmases right , Christmas Eve the snowplough is out on the road clearing the snow , it was that deep , it was up in |
17 | But even with the field limited in this way , an exhaustive study is out of the question . |
18 | I suppose a rock 's out of the question ? |
19 | Her car is out in the parking area . |
20 | Familiar with , which is basically the piece of legislation , which is still in force now and still a major problem for us , which is about getting Council Rent 's up to the level of private sector rent 's and forcing Council 's to do that . |
21 | But the divine divine is out of the country at the moment , at some coven of inter-faith priestesses in California . |
22 | Even though the pound is out of the Euopean Exchange Rate Mechanism , a cut at present would be too risky , without a corresponding fall in Germany . |
23 | The pound is down against the dollar at ( $1.75 ) one dollar , seventy five , but up against the mark at ( 2.88 ) two marks eighty eight . |
24 | The pound is down against the dollar and the Deutsch Mark at one dollar , seventy-three and at two marks , eighty-eight . |
25 | If the number 1 lefthand light is on for the 580 and the modular electronics and the number 1 righthand light on for earlier machines , then as we saw last month the first stitch of the pattern will fall to the right of the N1 cam , that is on needle number 14 to the left of centre . |
26 | The Scottish Natural Heritage figure is up over the grant in aid for 1991-92 for the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Scottish Countryside Commission by 21 per cent . |
27 | A subpoena may not be issued where the proposed witness is out of the United Kingdom . |
28 | A slightly less elaborate statement is much cited in Australia : the applicant must satisfy the court ‘ that the witness is out of the jurisdiction of the court , that his evidence is material and that his attendance within the jurisdiction can not be procured ’ ; it seems to have been derived from a similar observation of Lindley L.J . |
29 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
30 | Definitions are difficult , but so far as the workstation market can be defined , Dataquest reckons that it gained only 4.2% in 1992 , following a 14.5% gain in 1991 , and suggests that the slowdown in revenue was down to the overall mix of workstations shipped shifting towards lower-priced systems , and to the poor economic climate in Japan , so that the market crept up to $9,000m . |