Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In extract 15 , for example , Cheryl 's Creole response is to the London English part of Jane 's turn , while Jane 's next turn is an English response to Cheryl 's Creole turn .
2 Many statutes can already be summoned up on a video screen at the touch of a few buttons , and complete coverage is in the offing ; but , since the use of these computerised systems is expensive , the old-fashioned methods will long be with us .
3 This can be done , however , only where a taxpayer 's total income is below the level of their personal allowances .
4 The term economic hides the fundamental point that economic change is at the same time social change .
5 Most of the preclinical teaching is within the Medical School .
6 Most of the preclinical teaching is within the Royal ( Dick ) School at Summerhall close to the centre of the city .
7 Another possible route is between the Bonn-Cologne airport and
8 The only solid bit was at the front .
9 The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post .
10 I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) .
11 Oh my whizzy holder 's in the , in the , in the ruck
12 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 .
13 Much of Piffetti 's work is still to be found in the royal palaces of Turin , but several superb pieces , including two exquisite pedestals , drifted off to the Quirinal in Rome , and an altar-frontal of unbelievable complexity is in the Vatican .
14 The dead were named last night as Mr Paul Gordon Butt , 29 , a securities dealer , Mr Thomas Casey , 49 , a door keeper , and Danielle Carter , 15 , whose eight-year-old sister was among the injured .
15 And in a week when European unity is in the spotlight , Sir Claus told the conference at Bruges in Belgium : ‘ We remain , sad to say , probably the most divisive society in advanced Europe .
16 In later years the dry dock was under the control of Marr & Co. but following the building of the new bridge at Bernard Street , only small vessels and yachts could pass under the bridge and reach the dock .
17 The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema .
18 Boar 's head and jugged hare were among the contemporary dishes served in front of the company 's original 18th-century shop front in Cornhill , which now stands in the museum .
19 Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere .
20 To avoid such problems , where a consent is needed , the normal practice is for the sale agreement to provide that the vendor will hold the benefit of such contract on trust for the purchaser and pay any sums which the vendor receives after completion to the purchaser immediately upon receipt ( see clause 8.2(a) of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) .
21 These allow it to assess the service provided by every station and take into account local conditions , casualty potential and the availability of crew and ensure that the right boat is in the right place at every location .
22 The vocational profession of Alpine shepherd is on the wane , an arduous life with unreliable income .
23 The TBM 700 's purchase price includes two type ratings , and the usual practice is for the owner-pilot to bring a professional flier with him to take the course .
24 If so , the meeting can proceed ; otherwise , the usual practice is for the meeting to wait a maximum of 15 to 30 minutes for a quorum to assemble .
25 If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing .
26 Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course .
27 Those who doubt it should consider these words of a club owner : ‘ Professional baseball is on the wane .
28 They should not take account of side-effects if the sole effect is via the prices of products or factors .
29 Apart from the storage of two instructions to a word , the only extension to our rudimentary computer is in the provision of a second storage device or register in the data manipulation unit , the arithmetic register AR , used in conjunction with the accumulator for multiplication and division ; the need for such a register is discussed in 2.1 .
30 However , most of the civil servants in the top category were at the lower end of the pay scale , with 82% of men and 83% of women in category 1 earning between £18020 and £27065 .
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