Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nation has a very large civil service but a mixture of disdain for and suspicion of its civil servants … our leading governmental institutions are without the benefits of great formal authority and respect . |
| 2 | Some of those cases are before the courts at the moment . |
| 3 | While it is clear what the publishers stand to gain by investing both money and effort in ensuring that their key titles are on the shelves at all times , there might be more reluctance on the part of the booksellers to accept this encroachment onto their territory . |
| 4 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 5 | Poolewe and Dundonnell are at the ends of a classic walk of nearly thirty miles crossing this wilderness and , because of the rigours of the journey , calling for careful advance planning . |
| 6 | Certainly , preventive strategies and modern medicine will tend to counteract negative selective forces and will maintain the frequency of the thrifty genotype in human populations , but , as Neel soberly pointed out , ‘ efforts to preserve the diabetes genotype through this transient period of plenty are in the interests of mankind , ’ for some time in the future we may again be glad to have it . |
| 7 | The candidate whose immediate queries are along the lines of , ‘ When will I get my first pay rise ? ’ , or ‘ Will I be able to go on holiday in July ? ’ will probably not be putting the job first and certainly lacks the good sense and tact to make it appear to be the priority . |
| 8 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 9 | But while all eyes are on the hot-spots of Eastern Europe the real action is taking place in clubland . |
| 10 | Next , if you want to try to get sponsorship then write to the importers or dealers in this country — their addresses are in the ads of this magazine — do n't try writing direct to the USA , they wo n't want to know . |
| 11 | LASMO 's government relations in Pakistan are in the hands of Zahid Muzzafar , who is based in Islamabad , supplemented by efforts from the Karachi and London offices . |
| 12 | These parameters are at the limits of those allowed by treefall simulations . |
| 13 | Its funding and negotiations with authors are in the hands of a general editor at Layer IV , assisted by a small group of editors at Layer 111 , each working on projects that may take up to 18 months to complete . |
| 14 | The first book printed in Florence , a 1471–72 Virgil , the earliest printed Greek Homer and first editions of Ficino and the Divina commedia are among the items on show . |
| 15 | These two books are about the ways in which two important groups of mammals — the ruminants and the marsupials — utilise different food resources . |
| 16 | Unbreakable cups and space shuttles were among the uses of new engineering materials cited by an enthusiastic Dr Ian McColm ( Bradford ) at the NE Region Education Division ( NERED ) teacher 's conference at Sheffield Polytechnic in November . |
| 17 | About 10 foreigners were among the victims of political violence in 1989 , with the result that foreign aid workers , archaeologists and tourists increasingly withdrew from or avoided rural areas . |
| 18 | On closer examination , however , it was immediately clear that Franco did not trust the Falangists in the areas most closely related to the exercise of real power ( i.e. to the control of the force of arms ) : all three defence Ministries were in the hands of military men well known for anti-Falangist political sympathies . |
| 19 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 20 | Body and mind were among the contraries to be reconciled , and the true union of opposites was always preceded by bitter conflict . |
| 21 | Communications , security and the maintenance of the entire complex were in the hands of Russian officers under contract to the Iraqi government . |
| 22 | A truer parallel is the archaic temple of Apollo at Delphi , with its battle in the west and on the east the frontal chariot flanked by kouroi and korai , a very still composition , the only action being in the animal-groups at the corners . |
| 23 | Turned wooden vessels were amongst the grave-goods in the ship burial of Sutton Hoo mound 1 . |
| 24 | Perhaps the only two successful threats of action were by the water-workers in 1983 and the NUM over the Coal Board 's threat to close uneconomic pits in January 1981 . |
| 25 | Bicester Rugby Club were in the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup following an excellent hard four weeks , to go to Gloucester opponents , Hucklecote Old Boys at this afternoon . |
| 26 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 27 | Whether the law is on Venables ' side is in the hands of the judge . |
| 28 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 29 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 30 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |