Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 2 | The computer generated imagery and the reproduction of the various different airport locations , really did create an atmosphere of being behind the controls of a 737 . |
| 3 | In February 1990 the High Court dismissed a habeus corpus application on behalf of Vincent Cheng , one of the Catholic lay workers detained under the ISA in 1987 accused of being among the ringleaders of the Marxist conspiracy [ see p. 37086 ] . |
| 4 | But the cells in a pack of wolves do not have the same genes , nor do they have the same chance of being in the cells of sub-packs that are budded off . |
| 5 | The astonishing range of innovations made by this tireless giant of a man gave contemporary noblemen — never mind humbler folk — the sense of being in the hands of some alien , elemental force . |
| 6 | It was like being in the entrails of a glacier . |
| 7 | By any other name , it smelled as sweet to the eager school librarian , and this paragraph will remind many British readers of the arguments a decade later as to whether " library " , " resource centre " or " library resource centre " ( among many other terms ) best described the new organization called into being by the demands of resource-based learning and new curriculum projects . |
| 8 | The fact remains that , quite apart from being outside the capabilities of smaller companies , losses still have to be funded from the organisation 's own resources . |
| 9 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 10 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 11 | Actually , the only war I was involved in was on the tramcars on the way to the old Victoria Railway Station in Sheffield . |
| 12 | With Nigeria , after only just over two years of the new system , it is still too early to be sure , but in general governments at federal and state level appear to be respecting the guarantees of freedom of expression . |
| 13 | The leaping flame of the fire can call to mind strange images , which seem to be beyond the boundaries of normal knowledge . |
| 14 | ‘ Meaning ’ atheists do not make the claim that language about God is incommunicable either — in their case because they do not regard it as emanating from a philosophical No Go area labelled ‘ metaphysics ’ that is pronounced to be beyond the bounds of sense . |
| 15 | One consequence is that the thought patterns of primitive society , being felt to lack a scientific approach , are generally felt to be beyond the bounds of reason . |
| 16 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 17 | The form of control was to be through the concepts of purpose and relevancy , and each of the alleged reasons put forward by the Minister for not referring was subjected to them . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) taking a suspect to the parade seemed to the court to be outside the provisions for the administration of the parade itself and so there was no breach of the Code . |
| 19 | At the heart my belief … is the conviction that no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study . |
| 20 | When Scholes writes that ‘ no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study ’ , I am reminded of C. S. Lewis 's argument that any piece of writing has a claim to being literary if someone can read it in a ‘ literary ’ — i.e. an absorbed , attentive , loving — fashion . |
| 21 | Even the lighter stories tended to be along the lines of parrots who played the commodities market . |
| 22 | When children discuss each other 's work out of role it tends to be along the lines of " The door opened different ways , Miss " or " You just walked through the table . " |
| 23 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 24 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |
| 25 | She was nervous of all Men , and preferred to be with the women of the Court . |
| 26 | She does n't want to be with the likes of us . |
| 27 | The Army had fought enough battles about their right to be on the streets at the end of the last century when Salvationists had been imprisoned , ridiculed , despised and attacked by hooligans . |
| 28 | Retailers with power will , perhaps less commonly , use it to invoke restraints such as slotting allowances for the right of a manufacturer 's product to be on the shelves of a supermarket . |
| 29 | Mravinsky 's attitude to dynamics seems to be on the lines of ‘ no gradual inflexion unless explicit instructions are given to the contrary ’ . |
| 30 | Similarly , if runners-up win substantial prizes , arrange where possible for the handover to be on the premises of a local supplier . |