Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Ffestiniog bid to take over the moribund Welsh Highland company in a High Court action various schemes have been mooted including one by the FR to re-open the Welsh Highland from the north end and the long cherished target of taking the line through to within yards of the tourist attraction , Caernarfon Castle . |
| 2 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 3 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 4 | ‘ It could have been added by someone in the scullery , ’ said James , rushing to the defence of Alfred . |
| 5 | I hope that it has n't been done by anybody in the town . |
| 6 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 7 | All the same , he had a feeling of guilt as if he had been accused of something in the middle of a bad dream and , waking , could not remember what it was . |
| 8 | On another machine I had , which was operated in a rather dusty atmosphere , an intermittent failure report from the operating system seemed totally inexplicable except for a light layer of dust which had been deposited over everything inside the system box . |
| 9 | The hon. Member 's limited range of adjectives will have been noted by everyone in the House . |
| 10 | The minimum wage policy has been condemned by everyone from The Guardian to Goldman Sachs . |
| 11 | Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate . |
| 12 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 13 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 14 | The ego is the executive agency , the id could be regarded as something like the Congress , as o which er seen as a , as a large mass of conflicting demands . |
| 15 | The words must be uttered by someone with the necessary authority , in a country in which there is a death penalty , to a person who has been convicted of a particular crime ; they must be spoken , not written , at the right time ( at the end of a trial ) and in the right place ( in court ) . |
| 16 | ‘ According to present arrangements , he will not be considered by anyone outside the prison service or the Home Office until 1991 . |
| 17 | Soon the seascape seemed to be occupied by nothing but the two great ships clamped together , with a web of men and weapons passing glittering from the one to the other . |
| 18 | Such people were held to be possessed of none of the attributes of pure intellect , the cultivation of which was the purpose of education . |
| 19 | Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle . |
| 20 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 21 | It does not come in an envelope and it could be seen by anyone in the office which may , in itself , help to achieve its purpose . |
| 22 | If the effect of the new issue was to value PCI at $150 million , which would be very modest by American valuations of telecommunications companies , given that it has 12 to 13 million potential subscribers , it would mean Pittencrieff 's oil and gas interests would effectively be valued at nothing at the company 's current market capitalisation of just under £100 million . |
| 23 | The storage building blocks are packaged to slide into modular shelving which can then be configured for anything from the desktop to the data centre . |
| 24 | Sir William ) Clarke , a solicitor , on condition they were not to be shown to anyone without the consent of himself and the syndicate . |
| 25 | As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later . |
| 26 | ‘ We think it will be supported by everybody in the town . |
| 27 | But now , with the campaign against Famagusta looming over him , and the palace full of the wild exhilaration of a conquering army , Nicholas was too occupied to be haunted by anything of the past . |
| 28 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 29 | His recipes could never be mistaken for anything but the recipes of an educated Frenchman . |
| 30 | Poll Tax benefit forms will be sent to everyone on the Register towards the end of 1989 . |