Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In extract 15 , for example , Cheryl 's Creole response is to the London English part of Jane 's turn , while Jane 's next turn is an English response to Cheryl 's Creole turn . |
| 2 | The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use . |
| 3 | ‘ That money 's for the future . ’ |
| 4 | Many statutes can already be summoned up on a video screen at the touch of a few buttons , and complete coverage is in the offing ; but , since the use of these computerised systems is expensive , the old-fashioned methods will long be with us . |
| 5 | But it says here should a tribunal require them to pay a basic award for compensation then that payment is on the basis that it 's offered and accepted in satisfaction er towards those payments . |
| 6 | This can be done , however , only where a taxpayer 's total income is below the level of their personal allowances . |
| 7 | Well that bit 's from the top . |
| 8 | Another possible route is between the Bonn-Cologne airport and |
| 9 | The only solid bit was at the front . |
| 10 | The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post . |
| 11 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 12 | The largest uptake is for the subjects in the Final section , which are common to the Pre-Associateship Route . |
| 13 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 14 | The agreement in that case was between the owner of a piano ( a dealer ) and his customer . |
| 15 | In surface water , the content of soluble iron is usually low , and most of that present is in the form of insoluble hydroxides or combined with organic matter . |
| 16 | The implication of sex differences in economic activity for economic inequality are among the questions that are being pursued in my current research with John Ermisch and other colleagues . |
| 17 | Much of Piffetti 's work is still to be found in the royal palaces of Turin , but several superb pieces , including two exquisite pedestals , drifted off to the Quirinal in Rome , and an altar-frontal of unbelievable complexity is in the Vatican . |
| 18 | That election is for the House of Commons and the House of Commons alone . |
| 19 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 20 | And in a week when European unity is in the spotlight , Sir Claus told the conference at Bruges in Belgium : ‘ We remain , sad to say , probably the most divisive society in advanced Europe . |
| 21 | The largest reduction was in the number of elderly casualties . |
| 22 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 23 | At two hundred and twenty pounds two forty two sixty , two eighty three hundred three hundred pounds , three twenty on the aisle three fifty three eighty three eighty on the aisle , bidding sir ? for three that bid 's on the aisle , three eighty , any more at three hundred , four hundred four hundred and twenty on the aisle at four twenty , now any more at four hundred and twenty pounds and I shall sell at four hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 24 | In later years the dry dock was under the control of Marr & Co. but following the building of the new bridge at Bernard Street , only small vessels and yachts could pass under the bridge and reach the dock . |
| 25 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 26 | The first is that spring is in the air , so it 's time to dust away the winter cobwebs and treat yourself to a new look ! |
| 27 | Now the country 's newest dating agency is seeking a suitable partner for 45-year-old Posy , a spurthighed tortoise which knows that spring is in the air . |
| 28 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 29 | Each spring is about the size of a swimming pool and produces enough helium for use , after liquefaction , at the Cyclotron ( small nuclear accelerator ) in Calcutta . |
| 30 | To avoid such problems , where a consent is needed , the normal practice is for the sale agreement to provide that the vendor will hold the benefit of such contract on trust for the purchaser and pay any sums which the vendor receives after completion to the purchaser immediately upon receipt ( see clause 8.2(a) of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) . |