Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the conclusion of that is we go for a criteria based approach for the time being , see see what the response was to that er and nothing was said about identifying the site as such . |
| 2 | The majority were like that . |
| 3 | Linking the two cases does not promote planning , since the link is in any case controversial , and flexibility is improved by separating them . |
| 4 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 5 | The Serpent is in this aspect symbolic of the Universal reactive energy or ‘ life force ’ manifesting in man as ‘ consciousness ’ . |
| 6 | Abortion usually provides the last chance for a woman to opt not to have a child ( unless she is prepared to offer it for adoption ) either for social reasons or because the fetus is in some way malformed . |
| 7 | He does not mention , however , the choices that have to be made during execution of such trials , the ultimate allegiance of the clinician being to each patient separately while that of the researcher is to the overall trial design . |
| 8 | [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way . |
| 9 | Another way of deciding the winner is for those with a clear round to jump a smaller course of higher jumps with the jumps getting higher until you have a winner . |
| 10 | The heart is above all the place of encounter between a human being and God . |
| 11 | In the sociological theories the pathology was to some extent transferred from the make-up of individual criminals to their social settings , although there was still an individual manifestation of that pathology in their pro-criminal values . |
| 12 | It was amazing how little the money was at such a famous and unbelievably well-supported club . |
| 13 | However , the British civil courts have ruled that the payment was unlawful and that the money was at all times the property of Guinness . |
| 14 | Yes , the basement is for those who fail , the lower basement is for those failures who blame their failure on their supporters . |
| 15 | Once the atom is in this ground state , as it is called , it can not lose any more energy . |
| 16 | To the anatomists who worked in the museum or the dissecting room , processes that could only be observed in the field were of little interest . |
| 17 | Because the insect is on both sheets of glass , you can think of the two sheets as passing , at an angle , through each other . |
| 18 | The decision is to some extent arbitrary , but there are several relevant considerations . |
| 19 | There 's a whole school of psycho- history mainly in the United States , not many followers here , and er , I must admit , I , I used to have er a class on psycho-history on this course , and I dropped it , and the reason was , I think students did n't find it very satisfactory , and the literature was of such poor quality . |
| 20 | Evidently the present is in some respects not unlike the past . |
| 21 | On Wednesdays the mistress was in such a good mood you could get away with anything . |
| 22 | The contrast is between all that unstoppable force , irresistible depredation , and the fragility of a poem : ‘ Oh none , unless this miracle have might — /That in black ink my love may still shine bright . ’ |
| 23 | But the court will presume that they have acted bona fide , and the onus of proof of the contrary is on those alleging it and is not easily discharged . |
| 24 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 25 | The PF2 key can be used to obtain help if the user is in any doubt about what to do next , what to enter or does not understand what is being displayed on a page . |
| 26 | The PF2 key can be used to obtain help if the user is in any doubt about what to do next , what to enter or does not understand what is being displayed on a page . |
| 27 | LIFESPAN assumes that the parent of a user is the person to whom information is to be sent if the user is in some way deficient in the activities to be undertaken ; e.g. failing to make a DC assessment . |
| 28 | I think the fight is worth more , at least another £50,000 on top of that . |
| 29 | One possibility is that the fight was in all probability preceded by an exchange of threats , however brief , and the jury would be entitled to infer this even if there was no direct evidence of it . |
| 30 | During the heyday of the British Raj , the slaughter was to some extent controlled . |