Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile I am exploring the edges of a continent where most of its people are clustered and , except in city and suburb , well scattered where settlement is at the mercy of geography , as indeed is the peroipatetic topographer , constantly on the lookout for some assembly of landscape elements that can be turned into pictures and — because of indoctrination by a European culture — pictures of a particular sort . |
| 2 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 3 | Burks & Hare are on the road with the Addams Family and the cast of Macbeth — all the funeral of the fair ! — and you 're stuck with the Inspiral Carpets , The Real People and Family Gotown . |
| 4 | Above all , Mosley had tried to reassure the country that persecution of race or religion was against the fundamental tenets of Fascism as it had evolved in England . |
| 5 | Ginny bought some milk from Mr Ahmet 's Corner Emporium & Newsagent 's on the corner . |
| 6 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 7 | Marriage , or engagement is on the cards for next February . |
| 8 | A detailed analysis of the sale of businesses operated under licence or franchise is outside the scope of this book . |
| 9 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 10 | As we have seen , a public company is no longer permitted to have a charge or lien on its shares except ( a ) when the shares are not fully paid and the charge or lien is for the amount payable on the shares , or ( b ) the ordinary business of the company includes the lending of money or consists of the provision of hire-purchase finance and the charge arises in the course of a transaction in the ordinary course of its business . |
| 11 | The further problems are associated with difficulties that are encountered when trying to be precise about just how probable a law or theory is in the light of specified evidence . |
| 12 | In the 1860s Gaskell , Deacon & Co. was among the largest and most successful chemical works in Widnes , owing to Gaskell 's commercial management and Deacon 's method of recovering chlorine for bleaching-powder manufacture . |
| 13 | No but I mean let's be fair about these though , be fair to them , and in the erm , to see that they carry out your suggestions or advice is with the area local authorities , |
| 14 | High regime , where drive is from the variator , provides overdrive of up to 1.8:1 . |
| 15 | We also accept responsibility for the negligent acts and/or omissions not only of our own employees or agents but also of our suppliers and sub-contractors and their servants or agents ( provided of course that any such negligent act or omission is within the scope of or in the course of their employment ) in respect of claims arising as a result of death , bodily injury or illness caused to the person who signed the booking form and/or any other person named on the booking form . |
| 16 | ‘ When I estimate prices I look at how important the costume or prop was in the film , and how significant the film was . |
| 17 | Ease of use , Mr Rosenbaum admits , still requires some work but ‘ we are working hard to establish a common ‘ log off ’ — important where billing is by the minute ! |
| 18 | The theory was rounded off by the idea that the structure and content of the curriculum as practised in any school whatever , formal or free-form was to the advantage of those capable of indefinite linguistic and conceptual elaboration . |
| 19 | A state of temporary confusion or puzzlement is at the heart of all learning . |
| 20 | One physical reminder that change is in the air was the disappearance in April this year of the Army Catering Corps name , after more than 50 years . |
| 21 | It has been generally accepted that demolition of itself does not constitute development and , although there is some legal uncertainty on the matter , local authorities have typically assumed that demolition is outside the ambit of development control . |
| 22 | And despite the fact that Ministry are on the brink of a Metallica-scale take-over in the US , Barker hints that he and Jourgensen are now questioning how much further they actually want to push the band . |
| 23 | ‘ Today I say to our financial and business leaders that although change is on the horizon , we understand the need to pursue stability even as we pursue new growth . |
| 24 | There is little point in telling the staff that relocation is in the air if there are no precise facts available to answer employees ' questions . |
| 25 | The insistence that emancipation was in the national interest expressed this . |
| 26 | Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda . |
| 27 | The House of Lords in Savage , above , confirmed that recklessness is of the Cunningham variety . |
| 28 | Truth is not a defence , unless the defendant can convince a jury that publication is for the public benefit . |
| 29 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 30 | ‘ But she does n't know that divorce was in the wind , ’ Dougal said . |