Example sentences of "be [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been skinned , neatly eviscerated , and would have looked like any carcase in a butcher 's shop if it had n't been for the head . |
| 2 | As this never happens in real life , many people find themselves assuming the sound must be behind the head . |
| 3 | Though initial approaches from the link person and/or the DCSL may be to the head or the head 's senior nominee , it is to the library committee that the objectives and function of the project in the school are most often spelled out . |
| 4 | ‘ A rare meeting , and you , dear sister , ’ he turned to Omi , ‘ will be at the head of the table with me ! ’ |
| 5 | This relates to the middle-management area of decision and control which would be at the head of department and head of year level in a comprehensive school or the allowance holders in a primary school . |
| 6 | Edward will be at the head of a great army , thousands of men . |
| 7 | Of course clubs such as Neath and Pontypool are not really supposed to be at the head of the Welsh pecking-order , which goes some way to explaining why they become so unpopular when they do . |
| 8 | I 've never been to the head , I 've never been to the governors . |
| 9 | most injuries were to the head or the chest , so Alan 's were unusual . |
| 10 | A seneschal , receiver ( equivalent to the constable of Bordeaux ) and controller were at the head of the hierarchy . |
| 11 | Those under threat also included some of the most majestic of all birds — the golden eagle , the peregrine falcon — because , as birds of prey , they were at the head of the food chain . |
| 12 | If such a rider — or two or three such riders — are at the head of the field on the descent then all bets will be recast . |
| 13 | He has been at the head of many investigations , one major case being the doping of Bravefoot and Norwich , which disfigured the 1990 St Leger meeting at Doncaster . |
| 14 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |
| 15 | He had been at the head of the factional politics of Edward II 's middle years , and his rapid rise and precipitate fall typified the fate of others who had had the misfortune to enjoy Edward 's patronage . |
| 16 | Another and widely spread practice is for the head of a laboratory to add his name automatically to any paper published from it , though he may have no contribution at all to the work . |
| 17 | He said to Helen , ‘ Dad 's in the head hospital . |
| 18 | De Gaulle 's suspicion of political parties was explicitly anti-parliamentarian : ‘ it is from the head of state , placed above parties and elected more widely than just by Parliament that executive power must proceed ’ . |
| 19 | To the extent that sex is in the head , then Johnny needs the head . |
| 20 | Kelly is at the head of the Football Association and he must be seen to be above the fray . |
| 21 | ‘ My name is at the head of the list Boris Blagov , chairman . ’ |
| 22 | Slow play is at the head of this particular magazine 's hit list , and quite rightly so . |
| 23 | To make sure the G M B is at the head of the field we must have a reasonable Health and Safety Officer who would ensure that our safety reps and full-time officers are kept up to speed with all the changes in legislation and to provide the adequate training . |
| 24 | He wore nothing except shorts , and was unlike the head of Nefertiti in that he was self-conscious . |
| 25 | My last telephone call was to the head of Oatridge agricultural college , which has been a great help to the agricultural community in Scotland . |
| 26 | Twenty minutes later I was at the head of the queue . |
| 27 | Kylie enjoyed the performance so much that when a Melbourne football club asked members of the Neighbours cast to sing together at a charity concert , she was at the head of the queue to sign on . |
| 28 | Mr. Scott was at the head of his art in Europe , and he ( Sir Joseph Paxton ) said , that the building he had designed was a beautiful building . |
| 29 | Mr Reid said that Clarke 's Bedford van was at the head of a line of vehicles driving along the road as darkness fell . |
| 30 | Gyalpo , a Buddhist monk in his 20s from the Drepung monastery in Lhasa , was killed by police forces in what appears to be an extra-judicial execution , when he was at the head of a peaceful demonstration in support of Tibetan independence on 10 December 1988 . |