Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The burden of proof in establishing the defence is upon the defendant on the balance of probabilities . |
| 2 | Seventy percent of the expenditure is on staff who you do not employ and can not dismiss , a large part of the income , or all the income is through the fees that are set na nationally by the government . |
| 3 | The Park is on the main A6007 between Heanor and Ilkeston , just 8 clearly signposted miles from junction 26 of the M1 . |
| 4 | But although there are hundreds of freshwater lochs in Shetland , the majority are on the acidic peatlands and do not produce enough underwater vegetation to satisfy the needs of big grazing birds like swans . |
| 5 | The majority are in the upland regions of the North and West ( figure 7.1 ) . |
| 6 | The majority are from the surrounding small towns and villages , but some exhibitors come from as far afield as Lincolnshire . |
| 7 | Comments ranged all the way from excellent to poor with the majority being in the good to very good range . |
| 8 | Boots continued to multiply , though the majority were in the expanding field of leisure walking . |
| 9 | The majority were in the private sector . |
| 10 | And he said , it looks as though they 've put the chimney on and found that the flue is the ba the boiler 's in the bathroom , so they 've had to come down here . |
| 11 | The weakness is not in truth as the object of belief ; the weakness is in the believer since he is failing to enter into the essential obligations of believing . |
| 12 | They were extravagantly to his advantage , save when she lowered her voice to sigh , tapping her left side familiarly : " And all overclouded by this , you know — all at the mercy of a weakness — ( 9 ) Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 13 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 14 | These express the content of Pemberton 's inner consciousness : " Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart " ( 10 ) : " he would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) . |
| 15 | Most of the remainder are in the 40–70 range , with the highest grades reaching almost average mental ability . |
| 16 | Approximately 40 per cent of plantation forest is in the developed world , a further 50 per cent is in the Communist Bloc especially in China ( section 7.2.1 ) while the remainder is in the developing world , though the rate of planting is not sufficient to compensate for the rates of deforestation . |
| 17 | There were 140 parcels , of which only forty-seven were occupied by the head tenants , the remainder being in the hands of subtenants . |
| 18 | In fact , half the cases appeared in one newspaper — the Middlesex Chronicle , a local weekly — while the remainder were in the nationals . |
| 19 | The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus . |
| 20 | The shield is behind the name of the Ecu that the Brussels Eurocrats want to force us all to use . |
| 21 | For studies of ICJ transit , with this method , a value of 1 indicated that all the isotope was in the first 4 cm of ileum ; a value of 6 indicated that all isotope was in the caecum or colon . |
| 22 | I mean , th that 's a typical kind of association , that , that it 's a link , you can see the link is in the word , but the effect is to , is to misdirect your attention . |
| 23 | Another of Dr Guttering 's reasoned analyses of Prince Charles 's architectural tastes , in which the author suggests that after a childhood spent in some of the most vile Victorian mansions in the country , it is not surprising if the prince is minus the odd nut and bolt . |
| 24 | And this afternoon literally everything connected with the base was on the move . |
| 25 | The length of the ridge is of the same order as the size of the remnant . |
| 26 | What is possible already is to detect the chromosomal sex of a fetus either by amniocentesis or , at an earlier stage of development , by sampling of chorionic villi ; and if the fetus is of the unwanted sex , it could be aborted . |
| 27 | The change is in the ‘ mix ’ of oral and literate modes and this is related to changes in the conventions associated with them . |
| 28 | The change is in the procedures proposed for adjudication on offences in prisons by boards of visitors . |
| 29 | Besides , in some ways the change was for the better . |
| 30 | When there is more than one stressed syllable in the head there is usually a slight change in pitch from the level of one stressed syllable to that of the next , the change being in the direction of the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |