Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I cast around to see whether there is some other limitation implicit in the legislation : is there some other class with respect to whom Parliament is to be presumed to have been legislating ? |
| 2 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 3 | Me mum 's at work . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I met a gentleman once who said me legs were worth 'alf-a-crown a look . ’ |
| 5 | of which Orwell had derisively remarked in ‘ Inside the Whale ’ ( 1940 ) that it could only have been written by an innocent for whom murder is at most a word . |
| 6 | And we , all them motorbikes was on er the edge . |
| 7 | Well I do n't think they would actually but my , my sons are into , to trade you know . |
| 8 | My ankles were like tree trunks and I could just about reach the model because I was so big . |
| 9 | My heart 's in the Highlands . |
| 10 | Or perhaps , like Hope , he found an inexplicable access of joy : ‘ I must be alone , ’ he wrote , ‘ if either my imagination or my heart are to be enriched . ’ |
| 11 | My heart is with Rangers but my head says Leeds |
| 12 | I 'd love to see that error put right tomorrow but , although my heart is with Rangers , Leeds are a mighty outfit and I think the force will be with them at Elland Road . |
| 13 | My heart is with Wallis and I can not live without the woman I love . ’ |
| 14 | My heart is on the point of breaking |
| 15 | My heart is like a singing bird . |
| 16 | She did not say ‘ I feel overwhelming joy ’ but ‘ My heart is like a singing bird ’ which is infinitely more powerful . |
| 17 | ‘ My heart is like a singing bird , ’ rhapsodised Rossetti . |
| 18 | My heart is in the Wallowa Valley , and I want to go back there to live . |
| 19 | Every time I have to strike my heart is in my mouth , and although I do not consciously hold back when I strike , I wonder if I am doing so without being aware of it . |
| 20 | ‘ My heart is in the club more than ever . |
| 21 | ‘ My heart is in the workshop aspect of my job , ’ says Kristine Greenaway , who is a communication education specialist working with the United Church of Canada ( UCC ) in Toronto . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not my life frame by frame but my heart is in every scene of this film , ’ he says . |
| 23 | I thought I detected a faint smile on his lips , but I did not smile back because my heart was in a turmoil . |
| 24 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 25 | And my story 's about someone like that . ’ |
| 26 | My story was about a girl who finds a bedraggled kitten who is really a king . |
| 27 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 28 | Q The natural colour of my hair is between a light brown and a dark brown . |
| 29 | Q My hair is in terrible condition . |
| 30 | When I did eventually look in the mirror my hair was in patches , like little bits of baby hair . |