Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are of course divisions of opinion as to the idiomatic nature of Brahms 's writing , and none of these pieces lie easily within the hands . |
| 2 | Most ladders are of aluminium construction for lightness and ease of handling . |
| 3 | They are like sugar lumps in tea , moments before they vanish . |
| 4 | Many of the upland landscapes today are like patch-work quilts of forest and open moorland , with a few areas of upland bogs preserved for their rare , wild , moorland plants . |
| 5 | Dave Punshon , Age Concern 's chief officer , recently expressed fears that the scheme would have to close and its staff have been under redundancy notice since Christmas to finish on March 31 . |
| 6 | These are in fact forms of protein , which are not digested by the baby 's stomach ( this would deactivate them ) but pass unchanged through the lining of the gut directly into the blood stream . |
| 7 | It may seem ridiculous to suggest that a suicide does not believe in death , but there is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that some forms of suicide ( usually referred to as ‘ schizoid ’ ) are in fact attempts at rebirth . |
| 8 | Which of these headings are in fact categories of discourse type ? |
| 9 | Whether you are a novice or advanced computer user you will find programs and information that will be of use day after day , and at affordable prices . |
| 10 | Whether you are a novice or advanced computer user you will find programs and information that will be of use day after day , and at affordable prices . |
| 11 | worries about nature versus nurture , fears that the child will be like birth parents in behaviour or temperament ; |
| 12 | The pillows will be on display side by side , their anvil-like forms having survived the centuries unscathed ( until 26 June ) . |
| 13 | Margaret Highton will be on study leave from school at the end of this term . |
| 14 | which might not be at year end for example . |
| 15 | NAI ( Non Accidental Injury ) personnel to be at case conference at School next month . |
| 16 | If , then we must be at point M in Fig. 6.1 . |
| 17 | ‘ If yu keep straight on and take the first turnin' on your left , yu 'll be at Sunset Cottage in quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 18 | At the Smolyan mines , 67 men were said to have been on hunger strike below ground since Aug. 13 [ see p. 39014 for labour unrest ] . |
| 19 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 20 | Some directors were of course friends of administration , and used their powers of patronage as far as possible to supplement the efforts of government , but others , and notably the Elphinstone family , used their Indian patronage to sustain an opposition to Henry Dundas in Scotland . |
| 21 | At some sites , where good building stone was scarce , timber-framed structures predominated throughout the Roman occupation , as for example at Great Chesterford , where all the known buildings with the exception of the two late official structures were of timber construction with gravel or earth floors , plaster covered wattle-and-daub walling and probably thatched roofs . |
| 22 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 23 | A former prisoner named Mehu said 1,000 Moslems and Croats were in metal cages without sanitation in a death camp at Omarska in northern Bosnia . |
| 24 | Almost half were in nursery classes in school . |
| 25 | In Young 's time most of the cattle in Norfolk were in fact Scottish by origin , brought from their native regions to fatten in East Anglia , but the Norfolk Red was an old local middle-horned breed not unlike the Devon in colour and horn growth , and described as ‘ as loose and ill-made as bad Suffolks ’ . |
| 26 | There were in fact periods of awkwardness throughout their association — " What on earth can we do ? " |
| 27 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 28 | Sixty-seven per cent of men compared with 42 per cent of women were on state benefit excluding child benefit and retirement pension ( universal to parents and the retired elderly ) ( p=0.013 ) . |
| 29 | All patients were on maintenance treatment with sulphasalazine ( n=5 ) or olsalazine ( n=1 ) . |
| 30 | However , a new 375g pack at £1.19 was introduced on February 8th and until the old stock was used up the two packs were on sale side by side . |