Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Koran and Islam are in danger . " |
| 2 | The great green myth is that the goals of economic development and environmental protection are at odds . |
| 3 | If testing shows that our attachment to Christian friends or to a particular lifestyle is stronger than our attachment to God himself , we must ask whether these supports for faith are in danger of becoming substitutes . |
| 4 | About 15 posts are supervisory and management jobs and the remainder are for checkout , shelving and other staff . |
| 5 | Two-thirds of the homes have been constructed and the remainder are on target for an autumn completion . |
| 6 | Only 50 of the remainder are in London , with the rest in Trowbridge , where Barclays stores the securities it is responsible for . |
| 7 | The remainder are in effect , although they may be called from memory with the READ PALETTE prompt from the PATTERN instruction in the main menu bar at the top of the screen . |
| 8 | The main RIU meetings to discuss research funding are in May and September . |
| 9 | The two courses of defence are by contact and systemic fungicides , such as Maneb , Zineb , Dithane , Orthocide and others . |
| 10 | The specific social relations of such privilege are of course derived from the social order as a whole ; it is there that the patron 's powers and resources are enrolled or protected ; in the crudest terms , he is doing what he wishes with his own . |
| 11 | One recent letter deplored the excessive influence of academia , pointing out that 10 out of 12 of the Bulletin 's editorial board are from universities . |
| 12 | In practice , the Director of Public Prosecutions does not prosecute films with BBFC certificates for cinema showing , so distributors prepared to pay the certification fee and to carry out the " cuts " insisted upon by the Board are in effect guaranteed freedom from police harassment . |
| 13 | However , a substantial number of the carers in this category are in fact over retirement age . |
| 14 | Many other chemicals that act in a similar way to acyclovir are under investigation . |
| 15 | Several different types of tabular ledger are in use , but always the basic principle is the same . |
| 16 | If the teeth of the lower jaw are in front of those of the upper jaw , one considers it an underbite . |
| 17 | The curious , at times seemingly perverse , ambiguity in which the terms of the contract are from time to time expressed is an added reason why no one who has to wrestle with the problems which abound in this area should fail to arm himself with this book . |
| 18 | and woodlice are at work on the word , |
| 19 | Rhinos in Nepal 's Chitwan National Park are in danger of being scared off their foraging grounds by parties of tourists mounted on elephants . |
| 20 | Comparisons of this kind are difficult to make with accuracy over long periods of time ; but the direction and size of the change are beyond doubt . |
| 21 | Dicey thus identifies the growth in power of the party machine as the source of the problem : ‘ Coalitions , log-rolling , and parliamentary intrigue are in England diminishing the moral and political faith in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 22 | Some incidents at local level are worth recording . |
| 23 | Meanwhile many studies of potential local effects of rising sea level are under way . |
| 24 | The completion of the internal market would therefore appear to imply the removal of such protective devices , but member states are not likely to comply until protective measures at the Community level are in place . |
| 25 | The next level are in fact magistrates , who appear to have a similar area of responsibility to our Gown Court judges . |
| 26 | The legs that deliver that blow are in proportion to the rest of the tiger 's body , the circumference of the upper joint often being as much as 21 in ( 54 cm ) . |
| 27 | In this account homosexuals are essentially failed men , and the arbiters of what it takes to be a successful male are of course not women but other males . |
| 28 | When the back seat rail and stretcher are in place we can move on to the curved lower rail in the back . |
| 29 | Both these differences suggest the importance of a distinction which I shall come back to later : attitudes to the role of housewife are in principle not the same thing as feelings about housework . |
| 30 | Details of the 1993 Award are on page 3 . |