Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use . |
| 2 | ‘ That money 's for the future . ’ |
| 3 | But it says here should a tribunal require them to pay a basic award for compensation then that payment is on the basis that it 's offered and accepted in satisfaction er towards those payments . |
| 4 | Well that bit 's from the top . |
| 5 | OF ALL cell ingredients , one might guess that calcium was among the least important . |
| 6 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 7 | The agreement in that case was between the owner of a piano ( a dealer ) and his customer . |
| 8 | In surface water , the content of soluble iron is usually low , and most of that present is in the form of insoluble hydroxides or combined with organic matter . |
| 9 | The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May . |
| 10 | That election is for the House of Commons and the House of Commons alone . |
| 11 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 12 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 13 | At two hundred and twenty pounds two forty two sixty , two eighty three hundred three hundred pounds , three twenty on the aisle three fifty three eighty three eighty on the aisle , bidding sir ? for three that bid 's on the aisle , three eighty , any more at three hundred , four hundred four hundred and twenty on the aisle at four twenty , now any more at four hundred and twenty pounds and I shall sell at four hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 14 | That bid is at the final stage of its examination and I expect to be able to make an announcement soon . |
| 15 | ‘ That light is in the locked room . |
| 16 | The first is that spring is in the air , so it 's time to dust away the winter cobwebs and treat yourself to a new look ! |
| 17 | Now the country 's newest dating agency is seeking a suitable partner for 45-year-old Posy , a spurthighed tortoise which knows that spring is in the air . |
| 18 | Each spring is about the size of a swimming pool and produces enough helium for use , after liquefaction , at the Cyclotron ( small nuclear accelerator ) in Calcutta . |
| 19 | So make sure that dot is on the centre there . |
| 20 | what these reports have shown is that speed is of the essence and such projects should be chosen and approved far more quickly , in time for the researchers to be able to compete with rival projects . |
| 21 | Many of the matters which are discussed within this framework are of the greatest importance for social anthropology . |
| 22 | Another trick is for the dealer to buy his stock through a friend , particularly when he has special knowledge that the price will go up , as did one dealer on Helical Bar a well known property company in the UK whose share price then sky-rocketed from its post crash low . |
| 23 | ‘ A state without means of some change is without the means of its conservation , ’ wrote Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in France . |
| 24 | The secret of this trick is in the preparation of the rings by cutting and resticking them . |
| 25 | Costly drinking vessels of this kind were among the diplomatic gifts traditionally bestowed on native chiefs . |
| 26 | ‘ People understand this ox is in the ditch in a way I 've never heard before . |
| 27 | An emerging key group of provides in this field are from the private sector . |
| 28 | Thus article 10 requires a balancing exercise to be conducted : the balance in this case is between the right to freedom of expression and such restrictions as are necessary in a democratic society for the protection of the reputation of a non-trading corporation which is also a public authority . |
| 29 | ‘ In my opinion , the use proposed for the Official Report of Debates in this case is beyond the meaning of the ‘ reference ’ contemplated in the Resolution of October 1980 . |
| 30 | This case is like the case in which I am lost in cloud and shout out , ‘ Here ’ to let my wife know where I am . |