Example sentences of "and [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contents of her handbag and briefcase were on the table beside him , the Pan Am ticket conspicuous . |
| 2 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 3 | A bus link between Welshpool and Shrewsbury was in operation over the weekend of 26th-27th January due to construction work on the A5/A49 Shrewsbury bypass . |
| 4 | If God 's with us and reliability is with us , we will be in there somewhere . |
| 5 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 6 | Britain tops the league for sulphur emissions in Western Europe , but the Eastern block — Russia , East Germany , Poland and Czechoslovakia are by far the worst offenders . |
| 7 | The " freedom of private property " was to be protected by the state , and taxes were to be imposed " on a basis of justice and only when the need for them arises " . |
| 8 | I feel that they 're an extension of the same thing — the voice and guitar being as one . ’ |
| 9 | For that matter , the difference in performance between road and rail is worth noting too . |
| 10 | This both reflects and promotes a view of mathematics as a collection of arbitrary , fixed procedures in which learning comes through repetition , and teaching is by telling . |
| 11 | Within each handedness group the difference between female inverters and non-inverters was in the direction opposite to that predicted by Levy and Reid but , for males , the difference was in the predicted direction . |
| 12 | In drama we have a great advantage over other subjects in that non-verbal language and narrative are at the centre of our work . |
| 13 | [ 3 ] Ann Arbour , Essex , Leiden and Moscow are on every desk . |
| 14 | Whole concepts , whole reorganizations of thought swam drunkenly through her head , and lurched and revolved like the drowned woman and her orange : she no longer knew what gardens and houses were for , and their distinctions , once clear , had grown confused . |
| 15 | In temperament , age and policy , government and parliament are in a state of perpetual conflict . |
| 16 | The opposition Byelarussian Popular Front had claimed that both government and parliament were under the control of former communists . |
| 17 | Wessis and Ossis are like brothers who last met decades ago and hardly know each other any more . |
| 18 | A Will is simply a clear statement about how your money and possessions are to be divided when you die . |
| 19 | John McGinley made it 3-1 after 52 minutes and Swindon were under a fair bit of pressure . |
| 20 | Two knights were to be elected in each county court to appear before the Council ‘ with full power to assent for the community of the county as to what shall be ordained … concerning the forests ’ : all landowners who wished to claim the disafforestment of their lands and woods were to be there to substantiate their claim . |
| 21 | Liabilities and short-term assets are at book value , foreign currency items are translated into sterling at middle-market exchange rates , real assets and investments are at market value . |
| 22 | Since Gladstone 's day , governments have accepted that literacy , learning and literature are worth more than the revenue from a tax on the product . |
| 23 | Colin Blakemore 's much publicised work on the eyes of monkeys and kittens is in example . |
| 24 | Under the terms of the peace agreement , 50,000 troops made up of members of FAPLA and FALA were to be trained and incorporated into the FAA . |
| 25 | Andy and William are in monochrome ; black and white , DJs removed for the bubbly-waterfall operation . |
| 26 | Jonadab was in the depths of depression : he had kept the stallion in his stable and before going in for their midday meal , both father and sons were in consultation round the gentle grey . |
| 27 | Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third . |
| 28 | His personality and judgement were of most significance in the fields of foreign and military affairs . |
| 29 | And freedom is at the very heart of the idea that is America . |
| 30 | A similar chronology can be seen at Wroxeter , whereas as at Leicester the Forum is Hadrianic and completed in AD 129 ( Atkinson , 1942 ) , the baths were not in use until the Antonine period , although there are definite traces of an earlier public building ( Kenyon , 1940 , 189 ) , but its date and function are by no means certain . |