Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sweet young thing from Smash Hits is n't going to be after the same kind of material as some cerebral haircut boy from Melody Maker or a hack from your local paper . |
| 2 | Without them we had been , as formerly , a Prey to every petty Invader ; and the flourishing Empire of Great-Britain would be of no more consequence in Europe than the petty Republick of Lucca in Italy . |
| 3 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 4 | I do n't know the comparable figure for a willow seed or an ant , but it will be of the same order of staggeringness . |
| 5 | The masters in painting , Reid says , ‘ know how to make the objects appear to be of the same colour by making their picture really of different colours ’ . |
| 6 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 7 | Lemurs are considered to be amongst the more primitive of the primates . |
| 8 | Any one of us could be under the same sort of misapprehension without even realizing it . |
| 9 | to acknowledge how ‘ well run ’ the wilderness has been ( and presumably would be under the same regime in future ) and how adept their bailiffs and stalkers have been at pursuing ‘ a careful policy of highly selective culling , a scientific approach to hind and calf management . ’ |
| 10 | Most of the season you 'll be with the same group of people for the whole fortnight , which creates an excellent social atmosphere . |
| 11 | Women are five times less likely than men to be with the same employer at 40 and eight times less likely at 55 ( Aoki 1984 p.82 ) . |
| 12 | Its members will be drawn mainly from the Commons ( the lower elected house ) , a few will be from the same party in the Lords ( the non-elected upper house ) and , although they remain in Parliament as MPs or peers , their role is very much as members of the executive , aiming to steer their programme through the assembly with as few complications or delays as possible . |
| 13 | Leslie reckoned that he would be in no more danger in the S.A.S. than in the Parachute Regiment : or so he persuaded himself . |
| 14 | The good player will be in the same position at impact as he was at address ( above left ) , while the bad player 's hands will be well forward of the ball at impact ( above right ) . |
| 15 | I cited that Korea seemed to be in the same position as China in 1947–1948 ; that the Chinese officials also continuously stated that they could put a stop to inflation at any time . |
| 16 | Further , the Vienna Convention does not specify how long the obligations under Article 18 continue , although at some point a signatory State that does not ratify a treaty must surely be in the same position as non-signatories . |
| 17 | To be a Christ rejecter , is to be in the same position as Pilate was in . |
| 18 | Our policy is one of indemnity i.e. it provides for the Claimant to be in the same position after the loss as immediately before it . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure that once in a while we can be in the same kitchen without explosions occurring , do n't you agree ? |
| 20 | The reflection should be in the same spot on both eyes , so any deviation indicates a squint . |
| 21 | Because he only had to be in the same room for her nervous system to run haywire , and she could only take so much punishment . |
| 22 | Here she was , all alone in the wildly romantic snow-covered Scottish mountains with a man most women would give their eye-teeth simply to be in the same room with , and her only wish was to get away from him . |
| 23 | ‘ So long as it does n't interfere with your work ! ’ he snarled , and , as if he could no longer bear to be in the same room with her , he turned and strode from her sitting-room , through her hall , and out of her flat . |
| 24 | But to sit here , like one of the effeminate fools smirking over there or , worse still , like Antonini and Ferrante and the others he 'd spotted , who boasted of the conquests they made of the long-legged girls who dreamed of jewels and furs and sold themselves so easily — to sit here , to even be in the same room with such men , made him feel filthy . |
| 25 | whether or not we 're gon na be in the same situation on erm |
| 26 | Yeah but the thing is , it 's something that we 've got to think for life really , or we 're just gon na be in the same situation in a couple of years that we wan na something a bit bigger . |
| 27 | ‘ Then there would have been bloodshed , for I tell you I could not be in the same house with them and keep my temper . |
| 28 | ‘ We happened to be in the same place at the same time a couple of months ago , ’ she replied , terse and offhand . |
| 29 | Also , if larger-than-normal books are stacked separately , or if special books are kept in separate collections , every book on the same subject will not necessarily be in the same place in the library . |
| 30 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |