Example sentences of "[noun pl] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Freud , this would have been to replace one set of dogmatic assertions with another set , held by the believers to be for ever true , and providing a sense of false security for them . |
| 2 | The paper urged its readers to be on their guard . |
| 3 | And even then he must warn the brothers to be on their guard . |
| 4 | It was proposed to build a railway ‘ Halt ’ specifically for the Depot along the South Gate railway bridge , allowing workers from outlying districts to be within a minute 's walk of the Depot Gate . |
| 5 | Radical deputies attempted unsuccessfully on Oct. 2 to postpone the elections by proposing a bill which would require the number of candidates to be at least twice the number of seats at issue . |
| 6 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 7 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 8 | All entries to be in no later than Thursday , 23 April . |
| 9 | So eager were the Highlanders to be in action that they charged forward prematurely , to be swept by further fire from the hated artillery as well as by musket shots from the opposing infantry and from a detachment under the 18-year-old [ later Major-General ] James Wolfe , posted on the royal left flank , which took them in enfilade . |
| 10 | POLICE are warning lone women drivers to be on their guard after a 21-year-old woman was abducted and beaten about the head by a kidnapper . |
| 11 | Detectives are warning lone women drivers to be on their guard after a 21-year-old woman was abducted in Manchester and beaten about the head , after she had stopped to ask directions . |
| 12 | Conveyances to be by deed |
| 13 | POLICE have warned traders to be on the alert after two cheque books were stolen from the office of Crossfire Trust at Darkley , near Keady . |
| 14 | Police in Seaham have urged members of the public and traders to be on their guard following the discovery of a counterfeit £1 coin . |
| 15 | By and large , most businesses would give their hind legs to be in an industry which was growing at 7% a year and where there were huge barriers to entry . |
| 16 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 17 | If everyone in society outside had opportunities to be in touch with their feelings in work , education and creative living , fewer would end up in prison . |
| 18 | Until I came of age he wanted the pictures to be in his ex-wife 's custody . |
| 19 | As in that chapter , we allow non-basic variables to be x i j or . |
| 20 | Police are urging horse owners and stables to be on their guard , and they 're trying to trace two men seen parked near Natton in a car . |
| 21 | Potential hardrock sources , associated with basic igneous rocks , do not have sufficiently high concentrations to be of commercial interest at present . |
| 22 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 23 | ‘ I have always wanted to write for as many people as possible , I want my books to be on the general fiction shelves as well as the feminist shelves . ’ |
| 24 | And at the end of the day publishers prefer their books to be on the booksellers ' shelves than in the warehouse . ’ |
| 25 | Part or all of the aedeagus is held by some authors to be of a secondary , non-appendicular nature but others consider it to be formed by the division of the gonapophyses of the 9th abdominal segment , the two median halves fusing during development to form the penis while the lateral halves constitute the parameres . |
| 26 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 27 | MORE and more areas of BNFL 's THORP plant are coming to shape as contractors and commissioning teams strive towards the February 1993 deadline for all areas to be under the control of the Commissioning Group . |
| 28 | The Confederation of British Industry has warned companies to be on the lookout for letters from overseas publishers inviting them to submit entries in fax , telex and trademark directories . |
| 29 | The European Court overrode Italian civil law and stated that it did not consider these posts to be in the public service . |
| 30 | Babs was under too much of a strain trying to memorise her lines to be of help , and as for Dawn — well , unless the poor thing was actually wearing her glasses , the results could be decidedly hit and miss . |