Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steele escaped only weeks ago from Edinburgh prison and turned up in London where he glued himself to the railings at Buckingham Palace to protest his innocence before being re-arrested. escape , Steele telephoned the Daily Record newspaper . |
| 2 | Necessary and sufficient conditions for a quadratic form to be pos. def. are established in Theorem XIII of 1.22 . |
| 3 | Thus if A is to be pos. def. , the theorem requires that |
| 4 | To that extent , the oil sector , that makes up around 8% of the stockmarket 's capitalisation , could be said to be 100% dollar sensitive . |
| 5 | He 's got to be caught.The hunt is stepped up after more attacks on horses . |
| 6 | She willed there to be grapefruit juice in the fridge . |
| 7 | Since repair rather than fresh building was their prime rationale , they did not need to raise an initial capital comparable to that needed for constructing a canal — estimated by the Duke of Bridgewater to be £10,000 guineas a mile . |
| 8 | We had to be 5′ 10″ at least and most were 6′ 0″ or over . |
| 9 | The engineering files are thus seen to be data stores containing both man-readable and machine-readable instructions for the manufacture of the specified articles . |
| 10 | By using chromatofocusing techniques and enzyme assays , the enzymes involved in the biocontrol action of Trichoderma have been shown to be chitinases. glucanases and proteases . |
| 11 | Cheapest items are said to be £32 wine goblets etched by the Queen 's engraver Andrew Lawson Johnston with Ovid 's motto : Wine gives courage and makes men apt for passion . |
| 12 | Network South East has spent a quarter of million pounds converting what used to be staff accommodation , into a kindergarten . |
| 13 | But with the summer holidays … and freedom … around the corner the dangers need to be balanced.Crime prevention officers working with children say there are obvious guidelines … |
| 14 | Mario and I agreed during that long flight that part of the trouble had to be media coverage . |
| 15 | And lucky to be alive.Frankie Vaughan 's close encounter of the worst kind . |