Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | KPMG Peat Marwick , Sakura Global Capital and BDO Binder Hamlyn are among the companies that have paid £1,000 for a table to seat their team of 10 contestants . |
| 2 | The nation has a very large civil service but a mixture of disdain for and suspicion of its civil servants … our leading governmental institutions are without the benefits of great formal authority and respect . |
| 3 | From this it can readily be seen that only 56 institutions are of the size advocated in ‘ Better Schools ’ and yet this 19% caters for nearly half the student population whilst 148 sixth forms ( 52% of the total ) each with less than . |
| 4 | While the medical care , in a technical sense , is generally excellent in the municipal hospitals , all of which are affiliated to major teaching centres to try to ensure high standards , these institutions are like the NHS only more so . |
| 5 | In the USA big name institutions are in the race : Princeton , Los Alamos , MIT . |
| 6 | Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon . |
| 7 | SCOTVEC courses for beginners are on the basis of a half day per week for one year while the NWRAC Home Machine Knitting Course requires a full day per week for two years , or three if Part 2 is included . |
| 8 | MICKEY MOUSE and Donald Duck are in the dog house with Goofey . |
| 9 | Before long , the only vacancies are near the entrance . |
| 10 | Its part is written a perfect fifth higher than it plays and as long as its notes are on the stave it sounds well . |
| 11 | Some of pop 's flavour-of-the-month acts are on the bill . |
| 12 | Whilst this section is confined in its application to acts expressly authorised to be done on behalf of a firm , the general law of agency will continue to attach liability to the firm for the unauthorised acts of its employees when those acts are within the course of their normal or apparent activities for the firm . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman can be absolutely certain that we agree that the measures proposed by Mr. MacSharry are to the detriment of his farmers and farmers in every corner of the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | However , these and similar discussions are beyond the scope of this book . |
| 15 | Since much of equity returns are in the form of capital gains , at least in the long run , which are taxed only on realisation , personal tax on equity returns is generally in effect much lower than that on the returns to investing in a company 's debt . |
| 16 | The 30 prisoners are from the Chilterns group of jails which includes Aylesbury , Grendon , Bullingdon and Huntercomb . |
| 17 | The famous ‘ spider woman ’ of Erddig duly appears on the cover of The Servants ' Hall , but most of the accounts are of the menservants . |
| 18 | All our accounts are with the auditor . |
| 19 | Since these appropriation accounts are on the cash basis , accounting standards would hardly seem relevant . |
| 20 | These accounts are for the period from 15 July 1991 to 30 September 1992 . |
| 21 | Many eastern states are near the end of their landfill capacity . |
| 22 | ‘ No , the nose and the hair are in the family , ’ my brother agreed . |
| 23 | Do not worry about this so long as all or most of the important symptoms of the case are in the remedy . |
| 24 | Yes the ducks are on the road . |
| 25 | Robert Tisserand in ’ The Art of Aromatherapy ’ states that essences are like the blood of a person . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They 're the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and that 's about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself . |
| 28 | Improvements to Ark printing are in the offing , Mr Round believes , as are facilities for transferring data into Ark , which will allow data to be loaded automatically from the firm 's AS/400 database without rekeying . |
| 29 | The Germans are in the village . |
| 30 | The illustrations are for the case when the game is played with the eight neighbouring sites ( the cells corresponding to the chess king 's move ) , and with one 's own site ( which is reasonable if the players are thought of as organized groups occupying territory ) . |