Example sentences of "to [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the panels devoted to money were on the order of how-to sessions . |
| 2 | When Sarazen went to Prince 's for the 1932 Open , Daniels was well into his sixties , and had been seriously ill . |
| 3 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |
| 4 | It tasted good , but the only resemblance to tea was in the tealeaves floating on the top of the liquid . |
| 5 | One area of television where frequent reference has been made to homosexuality is in the arts programmes . |
| 6 | Settling to work is like the idea |
| 7 | Probably his greatest claim to fame is as the inventor of microphotography , his earliest successful results , based on the newly introduced wet collodion process , dating from February 1852 . |
| 8 | Conditions relating to restoration are among the most important . |
| 9 | An example of such pressure involving an attempt to change an inequitable system that appears to bear no relation to wartime was on the Isle of Ely . |
| 10 | He created an amicabilis concordia with Queen Mary College , London ( evacuated to King 's during the war ) , and another with Berkeley College , Yale , where his contemporary at King 's , Charles Seymour , was president . |
| 11 | She 'd found no trace of Jake or Adam on Starr Hills ; and she 'd returned to Gran 's into the usual evening bustle of getting ready for next morning 's breakfasts . |
| 12 | For Behaviouralists , the path to knowledge was via the collection of observable data ; regularities within the data were to lead to the framing and testing of hypotheses , from which theories would be constructed . |
| 13 | Rather it had served to convince him that the choice now open to mankind was between the principle of non-violence and racial suicide . |
| 14 | Yes , if I can just interject something here which I think is rather striking , when one used to go on holiday on the Continent , going to church was at the same time a bewildering an exciting experience because you could n't understand what was going on . |
| 15 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 16 | These men tend to be more confident that they can make their desires known to their partners , whereas those who did n't enjoy their introduction to sex are among the most likely to say that they ca n't express what they want . |
| 17 | But the Supreme Court decided that only questions of safety or public exposure to radiation are within the federal government 's domain . |
| 18 | References to arbitration are on the following numbered Terms unless otherwise directed : ( 1 ) The arbitrator shall appoint a date for the preliminary consideration of the dispute , unless the size or nature of the claim or other circumstances make such a course undesirable or unneccessary . |
| 19 | War and imprisonment have helped to generate some of the finest writing ever produced , and Welcome To hell is among the best modern examples of this tradition . |
| 20 | A Permit to film is on the way to OUP . |
| 21 | As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ . |
| 22 | Now , when the transition to socialism was on the agenda , the issues of the national question were no longer relevant . |
| 23 | They have been used for thousands of years , one of the earliest references to salt being in the Old Testament when Lot 's wife was turned to salt in the desert . |
| 24 | The fact of class conflict is not denied , but is seen as only one of several sources of conflict within society ; and perhaps most crucially of all , the stratificationalist approach to class is unlike the Marxist approach in that it is used in a fairly ad hoc way as an analytic tool , rather than as part of an integrated sociohistorical theory . |
| 25 | On the other hand , as Lord Salmon observed in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 : I would add that a well-advised landlord is hardly likely to agree to rent revision clause which laid down that its provisions as to time were of the essence of the contract . |