Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landscape traversed by the Turners is in a sense a literary one ( hence indicators like Poe Cove ) , but Barth is also careful to specify their seamanship with realistic accuracy . |
| 2 | The Valschena is in a quiet position on the outskirts of the village , though the centre is a mere five minute walk away . |
| 3 | Hay and Schaedler were rescued but the Johnstone was on a one way ticket to Atlantis . |
| 4 | All except Lord Keith also held that the GLC was under a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers which they had breached by the scheme , Lord Diplock particularly emphasizing the loss of rate support grant , and that they had acted thriftlessly . |
| 5 | Yet the Furio is on a par for performance with cars like the Escort XR3i , Rover 216GTi , Astra SRi and Golf GTi . |
| 6 | The public and professional opposition to I M Pei 's famous glass pyramids at the Louvre was of a ferocity that would never have been withstood in England . |
| 7 | The NHS is into an era of capital charging , which is likely to be extended to other public sector bodies , including some ( such as universities ) which are formally autonomous . |
| 8 | Their line is that the CPP is in a state of shock and will eventually be reconciled to its new position . |
| 9 | To this day the USSR is without a progressive taxation system . |
| 10 | Already Washington knew that it was only a matter of time before the USSR was in a position to present a serious nuclear threat to the United States itself . |
| 11 | This Gruyère , from the Savoy is like a settler who knew to put himself forward leaving off the East countries for other lands . |
| 12 | Of course , a Cabinet that does not have an effective majority in the Commons is in a quite different position . |
| 13 | It seems then that the RIBA is in a middle position in terms of obligation . |
| 14 | When news of some of the executions reached Morocco , the Shah was on a new gold course built for King Hassan by Robert Trent Jones , a celebrated designer of gold courses . |
| 15 | Kadhafi in a speech on Libyan television on Aug. 31 said that " the UN is like an oven where the demands are cooked ; they came to me and they said : " Eat " " . |
| 16 | However , the Assamese are in a minority in several parts of the state , outnumbered by various tribes and by immigrants from Bangladesh ( hence several bloody clashes between the ULFA and militant tribesmen ) . |
| 17 | Not only does this ensure rapid response and lower noise levels ; it also means that the heating and ventilation work when the Clio is at a standstill . |
| 18 | The Braer was outside a ten mile exclusion zone when its engines failed . |
| 19 | There is a further incentive for firms to break into the robust French economy , which has a GDP 15 per cent greater than the UK 's despite a slightly smaller population , since it still enjoys a substantial trade surplus . |
| 20 | The company 's predicament and that of its 5,500 employees in the UK are of a kind that would respond to sympathetic treatment intelligently applied by the Government — the kind of assistance , in short , given by a previous Tory administration which nationalised Rolls Royce to save it . |
| 21 | The Cottesloe is on a winning streak because it also has Uncle Vanya , with a host of fine performances . |
| 22 | The interior of The Lodge was like a show house , flashily furnished , expense no object . |
| 23 | Rutherford 's earliest research at the Cavendish was on a detector for electromagnetic waves , an essential feature of which was a small coil containing a tiny bundle of magnetised iron wire . |
| 24 | The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic . |
| 25 | The Armagnacs were in a particularly vulnerable position as a result of the geographical location of their lands . |
| 26 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 27 | With exactly half the seats in the Congress the PSOE was without an absolute majority for the first time since it came to power in 1982 . |
| 28 | Canada 's will be conducted by the Royal Society and the US 's by a committee headed by William Nierenberg , who most recently chaired President Reagan 's panel on the basing of MX missiles . |
| 29 | One theory is that the US was at a loss to know how to deal with the rebels becuase it had , indeed , been plotting a Panamanian coup , but not this coup . |
| 30 | Yet the president himself has said , surely rightly , ‘ The Holocaust is on a whole different level . ’ |