Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the USA big name institutions are in the race : Princeton , Los Alamos , MIT . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Before long , the only vacancies are near the entrance . |
| 5 | Its part is written a perfect fifth higher than it plays and as long as its notes are on the stave it sounds well . |
| 6 | Some of pop 's flavour-of-the-month acts are on the bill . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , these and similar discussions are beyond the scope of this book . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All our accounts are with the auditor . |
| 11 | Since these appropriation accounts are on the cash basis , accounting standards would hardly seem relevant . |
| 12 | These accounts are for the period from 15 July 1991 to 30 September 1992 . |
| 13 | Many eastern states are near the end of their landfill capacity . |
| 14 | Yes the ducks are on the road . |
| 15 | Robert Tisserand in ’ The Art of Aromatherapy ’ states that essences are like the blood of a person . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Germans are in the village . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | for example : ‘ Do any lecturers have a PhD ? ’ or ‘ How many lecturers are in the Computer Science Department ? ’ can be answered by accessing the index only . |
| 20 | In the capital , Riga , ethnic Russians are in the majority . |
| 21 | Once policies are on the statute books , there is reluctance to change them , or change is very slow and largely through non-statutory guidance . |
| 22 | We need an urgent review , maybe less papers but more information on rights lost and what Labour policies are for the future . |
| 23 | One major part of the ongoing work of the Working Party is to discover what opportunities are being provided by a range of different agencies and what your attitudes are to the provision of opportunities for young people . |
| 24 | All those defences are for the defendant to establish on the balance of probabilities . |
| 25 | Copies are in the Library of the House . |
| 26 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 27 | They can look the up by title , by the title of the book , as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library or whether or they 're all on loan . |
| 28 | Among transition metal hydrides the mass of the metal atom has rather little effect ; frequencies are in the range 2200–1700 cm -1 , the precise value depending on the metal and the other ligands involved . |
| 29 | To take an example , the observation that shareholders are on the whole behaving passively is consistent with the view that they know little about the firm and consequently leave everything to the manager . |
| 30 | ‘ The toilets are by the door , madam . ’ |