Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Paul Jenkins , of the National Occupational Hygiene Service charity , has said that ‘ Court cases over passive smoking are on the way . |
| 32 | The differences studied in the quantitative paradigm are of a particular and limited kind : they are socially , but not linguistically , meaningful . |
| 33 | Businesses targeted for the support are in the small to medium range , employing five to 50 people and must be able to show their viability and potential for growth . |
| 34 | A sign telling parents to keep their children under supervision and a poster stating the exhibition is of lesbian photography are at the gallery entrance . |
| 35 | But although there are hundreds of freshwater lochs in Shetland , the majority are on the acidic peatlands and do not produce enough underwater vegetation to satisfy the needs of big grazing birds like swans . |
| 36 | A few , a tiny few , recognise how unreasonable this attitude is , but the overwhelming majority are for the time being standing firm . ’ |
| 37 | The majority are from the surrounding small towns and villages , but some exhibitors come from as far afield as Lincolnshire . |
| 38 | Accounts survive from over 50 collieries within this period , the earliest series dates from the mid-fifteenth century but the great majority are from the seventeenth century . |
| 39 | The majority are in the upland regions of the North and West ( figure 7.1 ) . |
| 40 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |
| 41 | He notes that ‘ men are hardly to be brought to think that sweetness and whiteness are not really in manna ’ , but this does not lead him to question his declared view that sweetness and whiteness are on a par with the ‘ ideas of sickness and pain' , ideas which ‘ are not in the manna , but effects of its operations on us , and are nowhere when we feel them not ’ . |
| 42 | Certainly , preventive strategies and modern medicine will tend to counteract negative selective forces and will maintain the frequency of the thrifty genotype in human populations , but , as Neel soberly pointed out , ‘ efforts to preserve the diabetes genotype through this transient period of plenty are in the interests of mankind , ’ for some time in the future we may again be glad to have it . |
| 43 | Er yes well that is so this did come through er very very late indeed er in the and the Parish Council of course are in the situation where they have to cover all eventualities and what er Mr is referring to is a suggestion of using a one O six agreement to protect as far as possible the local communities when the tip is erected . |
| 44 | For many young blacks , the only jobs that offer a secure future and steady income are in the armed forces . |
| 45 | Three Polish medics based at Krakow University are on a three-week fact-finding trip to Teesside . |
| 46 | The parents of otaku are from the Sixties generation , very democratic and tolerant . |
| 47 | Subjects like robotics and micro electronics are on the curriculum for a group of gifted ten year olds . |
| 48 | The Jamaican and British varieties of Jamaican Creole are in a dynamic relationship . |
| 49 | The first substantial remains of sculpture from a Doric building are from a temple of Artemis on Kerkyra ( Corcyra , Corfu ) , which must date from the first decade or two of the sixth century . |
| 50 | Moreover , many mosaics in the west are among the most impressive in Britain — the Woodchester Orpheus mosaic , the Stonesfield Bacchus mosaic , and the Chedworth Seasons mosaic are notable even in a continental context — whereas those from Yorkshire and the banks of the Number are more limited ( if often ambitious ) designs . |
| 51 | I would ask those concerned if they could be patient and given time I will refund all money owing to them including any interest that would have accrued had their money been in a bank . |
| 52 | Readers with even rudimentary medical knowledge will be aware that swollen joints , clenching hands and itching or scaling skin are among the baleful symptoms of advanced psoriatic arthropophy . |
| 53 | The toxins secreted by the skin are among the most poisonous substances known , and these frogs are so named because the Noamana , Choco and Cuna Indians of Colombia use the poison to tip their arrows and blow-darts . |
| 54 | And despite the fact that Ministry are on the brink of a Metallica-scale take-over in the US , Barker hints that he and Jourgensen are now questioning how much further they actually want to push the band . |
| 55 | McDonough is now likely to team up with McGavin in attack on the long run in with Hopkins filling Martin 's role on the right , but the Layer Road worries at present are of a defensive nature . |
| 56 | Also , would it be possible to have my cheque books , which at present are in the counterfoil format , in the smaller format from now on ? |
| 57 | An emerging key group of provides in this field are from the private sector . |
| 58 | trustees comprise persons for the purposes of income tax ; 2. they comprise a separate entity liable to tax on monies they receive or which they are entitled to receive ; 3. the main inroads into that separateness and liability are of a restricted nature as explained in the Reid 's Trustees case ; these inroads are : ( a ) in certain cases ( but not all ) where a trustee mandates income direct to a beneficiary the trustee will not be liable to tax ( Williams v Singer ) ; ( b ) in the case of a life interest trust a see-through or conduit approach is adopted for identification of source purposes so that the origin and parentage of the income is not changed by virtue of its journey through the trust ( Archer-Shee v Baker ) ; ( c ) if income arises to the trustees of a life interest trust ( subject to deductions for expenses ) it is taxable upon the life tenant whether or not he actually takes the money ( Spen 's case ) . |
| 59 | The most prospective areas for Pennine-style mineralisation are in the concealed carbonate shelf adjacent to listric faults such as the area to the north-east of the Gainsborough Basin . |
| 60 | Where efficiency and speed are of the essence , investors will look elsewhere . |