Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Oakeshott here is in effect emphasizing the conservative distrust of abstract ideas and theories ; conservatism ‘ is not a creed or doctrine , but a disposition ’ . |
| 32 | So far , a survey has been conducted of companies in the defence sector in Scotland and work is in hand to develop the best approach to assisting these companies . |
| 33 | It 's er common ground that in fact er no sealed order was drawn up until very considerably later , the sealed order is in fact dated the twenty fifth of May nineteen ninety three . |
| 34 | For the question is , how can he be sure that in observing two similar individuals on two different occasions he is in fact observing the same pair ? |
| 35 | It is in fact showing the discerning outside eye that The Smiths are , proverbially in rockspeak , well messed up . |
| 36 | Let us accept this third theory for a moment and agree that , when a patient under hypnosis experiences what appears to be a past-life regression , he is in fact making the whole thing up . |
| 37 | Let he who is without sin cast the first stone , I may be hearing you say . |
| 38 | The afternoon is at leisure to enjoy the marvellous scenery . |
| 39 | As one was under obligation to study the former , so too there was an obligation to study the latter . |
| 40 | This was in order to maintain the federal , not unitary , nature of the constitution . |
| 41 | In line with Ferreira da Nóbrega 's assurance that Brazil was not imposing a debt moratorium such as had been the case in February 1987 [ see pp. 35823-24 ; for lifting of moratorium see p. 36553 ] , and that payments would resume when the exchange situation permitted , payment was in fact made the following week . |
| 42 | Dessie … one of the greatest of all the Gold Cup winners was in town to get the racing week off to a flying start … |
| 43 | When things were at their worst and it appeared the disease would spread over the whole island , Sister Mary Jane Wilson offered , if the government would put into good order the hospital at Lazareto ( which had been damaged and looted during riots ) , to take the group of sisters of whom she was in charge to nurse the sick there . |
| 44 | To Barth , this could only indicate that Bultmann was in effect taking the same path as their nineteenth-century forefathers . |
| 45 | Hallowell was in effect establishing the whole field of inquiry with which this book is concerned . |
| 46 | She was on foot going the other way , so I opened the gate for her . |
| 47 | WITH TWO days of campaigning left in the closest election for 20 years , the biggest opinion poll of the campaign indicated last night that Labour was on course to become the largest single party in a hung parliament . |
| 48 | As for the May local elections , their verdict matched precisely today 's opinion polls : despite a lacklustre performance , Labour was on course to become the largest party in a hung parliament . |
| 49 | Would not any of us wish , in the circumstances , that the courageous and humane Dr Nigel Cox was on duty to do the same for us as he did for Mrs Boyes ? |
| 50 | A skeleton staff was on duty to keep the world-wide operations of Royalbion ticking over . |
| 51 | Three minutes after the interval the Kent side found the target when a lob from Hunt caught Cheesewright off his line and Leslie was on hand to apply the final touch . |
| 52 | Area director Terry Wigley was on hand to present the new trophy to Islington . |
| 53 | An extra attraction has been a whole programme of special events held at the showpiece centre and the BNFL News cameraman was on hand to catch the magic moments from the two latest happenings — a falconry display and sheepdog trials . |
| 54 | Cullen was the architect with a blindside break from a scrum on the 22 , and centre Maurice Field was on hand to add the finishing touch . |
| 55 | Although he was promoted to begin his search for Troy because of an obscure literary reference to the lost city , he was at heart doing the same thing as modern detectorists ; albeit , some might say , at a more scholarly level — searching for something lost and using his wits to find it . |