Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | KPMG Peat Marwick , Sakura Global Capital and BDO Binder Hamlyn are among the companies that have paid £1,000 for a table to seat their team of 10 contestants . |
| 2 | The Koran and Islam are in danger . " |
| 3 | Simple endorsements of one or another nostrum are of no service to the teaching of reading ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ This just shows how hungry institutions are for commissions , ’ one banker said . |
| 5 | The nation has a very large civil service but a mixture of disdain for and suspicion of its civil servants … our leading governmental institutions are without the benefits of great formal authority and respect . |
| 6 | From this it can readily be seen that only 56 institutions are of the size advocated in ‘ Better Schools ’ and yet this 19% caters for nearly half the student population whilst 148 sixth forms ( 52% of the total ) each with less than . |
| 7 | While the medical care , in a technical sense , is generally excellent in the municipal hospitals , all of which are affiliated to major teaching centres to try to ensure high standards , these institutions are like the NHS only more so . |
| 8 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |
| 9 | All of these institutions are in conflict with their counterparts in Belorussia and with the top Soviet nuclear institute , the Moscow-controlled All-Union Centre for Radiation Research . |
| 10 | In the USA big name institutions are in the race : Princeton , Los Alamos , MIT . |
| 11 | Conflict of Interest Rules : financial institutions are in a unique position of trust when handling funds belonging to the public . |
| 12 | Will he now look at those matters seriously because , in the present recession , those institutions are in a grievous plight about which the Minister must do something ? |
| 13 | Because such religions are of more interest to the media than are more ‘ ordinary ’ religions , it is quite likely that whenever the tragedy occurs we shall be treated to the headline Cult Member Commits Suicide . |
| 14 | Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon . |
| 15 | STRUGGLING tycoon Donald Trump 's bedroom secrets are to be plastered all over American TV . |
| 16 | Many beginners are at first baffled as to how to make the shout . |
| 17 | SCOTVEC courses for beginners are on the basis of a half day per week for one year while the NWRAC Home Machine Knitting Course requires a full day per week for two years , or three if Part 2 is included . |
| 18 | GOALKEEPERS Toni Schumacher and Jean-Marie Pfaff are among 46 foreign players who learned yesterday that their lucrative attachments to Turkish clubs will be terminated at the end of the season . |
| 19 | Moore ( 1938a ) considered the main spawning period to be winter and spring although egg capsules are to be found throughout the year . |
| 20 | Once all your books and ornaments are on shelves there will be much more floor space . |
| 21 | In his introduction to the published plans of this and some of his other early houses he writes , ‘ Ornaments are to be cautiously introduced ; those ought only to be used that are simple , applicable and characteristic of their situations : they must be designed with regularity and be perfectly distinct in their outlines … |
| 22 | MICKEY MOUSE and Donald Duck are in the dog house with Goofey . |
| 23 | The great green myth is that the goals of economic development and environmental protection are at odds . |
| 24 | Rhetoric and promises are all right , but if Labour 's pledges are to be honoured , there is no question but that the ordinary taxpayer will be affected — or that some of those pledges will have to be reneged upon . |
| 25 | As their only specific spending pledges are on child benefit and pensions , I do not see how a Labour Administration would make one iota of difference to unemployment . |
| 26 | Labour 's spending pledges are in an equal muddle to its policy position , which was described , in two separate New Statesman and Society articles last week and this week as being meaningless . |
| 27 | Before long , the only vacancies are near the entrance . |
| 28 | However , planning ahead may not always be possible — for example if your circumstances change quickly or vacancies are in short supply . |
| 29 | Most British coal mines are outside the main industrial conurbations , and their employees live in isolated settlements — ‘ pit villages ’ — which offer no alternative work and are not very accessible to other employment opportunities . |
| 30 | Most of my companions on this field trip to the mines are from the Third World . |