Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then again , too many young people have been through the finals course , often at considerable financial hardship to themselves or their families , only to find that they can not be absorbed into a recession-hit profession .
2 It raises a number of complex and inter-related matters , some of which are for the pensions industry , some for the banks , some for actuaries , auditors and regulators .
3 JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand .
4 Shh shh Have you s watched The Bill , do you watch them when they 're inside the police station ?
5 If if the fire alarms going off and you 're in the ladies loo
6 Its cup final day in tennis tomorrow … serving for Central South is the Banbury West End Club … they 're in the mens final against Royal Berkshire at the puma centre in Welwyn Garden City …
7 SUCH is the alarming speed with which pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream these days that one moment you can be an underground guitar hero from Seattle , next you 're on The Clothes Show .
8 And while we 're at the police station I suggest that you have a word with someone there about the fact that you seem to be attracting some unwelcome attention .
9 ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia .
10 If we do not ask these questions , can we be sure we have not abandoned the search at too early a point , so that we are like the police officer who judges too soon that the death in a detective story was a suicide and not a murder ?
11 Needless to say , she had never been in a sports car before , and to be speeding and curving through the streets with the top open and the balmy August breeze combing silkily through her fine hair was sheer heaven .
12 She had never been in a cuttings library before .
13 Well I think it was just because of the the people who put the pressure on at that time , perhaps people who 'd been in the tenants association before , did n't see that as a priority .
14 ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said .
15 A lot A lot of well quite a few people and I mean th have been in the flats way before I came to .
16 Oracle Corp has n't been in the applications business that long , but the company is already onto release 9 of its Oracle Applications suite of financial , government financial , manufacturing , and personnel applications .
17 Thus , in the case of Parchment , the police committed what would have been a number of breaches of the rules had the accused been in the police station , but , simply because the supposed infractions had taken place before his arrival , the crown court held that nothing wrongful had occurred .
18 how long had you been in the police force ?
19 Well what I 'm , we 'll go to a sp how much they are in a sports shop .
20 Seeing the doctor 's uncomprehending expression , she added , ‘ Her shoes and coat are in the clothes closet . ’
21 Many of Britain 's waste managers are in the aggregates business ; the two French giants began as water companies ; Browning Ferris started life as a haulage company ; some of the German companies are owned by electricity utilities .
22 Profiles for the skeletal limbs are in the Profiles section .
23 Also some are in the police force , some in …
24 The people who know are in the careers service .
25 Both partners are in the ideas business , and if the ideas are good ones , it does n't matter where they come from .
26 One answer would be for the judges ruling on applications for chapter 11 to get tough in backing creditors ' claims against the firm .
27 In the North West the big tie will be between the locals Limavady and Brigade .
28 There will be the normally prize , plus any prizes to be between the ladies captain and the handicap secretary .
29 Would she be like the Misses Cardings , the three spinster ladies who kept the hat shop beyond the tobacconist 's ?
30 Investment can be in the with-profits fund or unit-linked .
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