Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 2 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 4 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 5 | Now just specify the variables that you want in this regression , right , your dependent variable first okay when you 've specified the equation , sorry once you specify the equation press the end key which is between the alphabetic and the numeric key pads , that will then submit that request , right . |
| 6 | The US was yesterday sheltering on its bases at least two participants in the coup attempt who were among the few to escape death or capture . |
| 7 | But with the foreign exchange shortages in many developing countries , I do not see what alternative there is in the long term . |
| 8 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |
| 9 | An etymologist he was to the bitter end . |
| 10 | Lord Keith at p 640 said , as a general rule it is in the public interest that confidences should be respected , and the encouragement of such respect may in itself constitute a sufficient ground for recognising and enforcing the obligation of confidence even where the confider can point to no specific detriment to himself . |
| 11 | It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift . |
| 12 | Others in different cultures and elsewhere in the world have retained the capacity to acknowledge these dimensions of human experience which are beyond the natural and everyday . |
| 13 | It is believed that the Maltese shop owner , who recalled selling a bundle of assorted clothing which was in the bomb-carrying suitcase , has inspected the bags . |
| 14 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 15 | Travel by overnight train to Mattmat which is on the same latitude as Iceland and Alaska . |
| 16 | Henry II of Germany incurred ecclesiastical disapproval by entering into an alliance with heathen Slavs against Christian Poles , while his French contemporary Robert the Pious repudiated his first wife and took a second who was within the forbidden degrees of kinship . |
| 17 | The only is that bloke who 's on the ten o'clock news |
| 18 | Meanwhile the mother of a nine-year-old boy who was from the same town and died in a ski-ing accident , is being cared for by a church group . |
| 19 | The hall itself was on the far side of a courtyard which could not be built upon as it had been the burial ground of the Quakers in the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | His first run there was for the Scottish Students in the match against their English counterparts at Myreside the day before the Calcutta Cup match in January . |
| 21 | Whatever disagreement there is about the internal divisions of the texts in the manuscripts , the whole treatise has a shape . |
| 22 | ‘ It is important that your bank knows everything about your business so that if you have to go to them for help they are in the best position to five assistance . |
| 23 | And I think there is this dividing line that there is the pure craft where the object is functional and is made for a specific purpose , but is beautifully made , but there is also the craftsman who crosses the barrier between art and craft , who makes beautiful objects that are perhaps non functional , and then of course you 're in the controversial field . |
| 24 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 25 | Again a reflection of technological backwardness because natural disasters can be controlled with a sufficient investment of resources China is n't able to do that , there are plagues of locusts , there is widespread flooding er there are also , by contrast , periods of severe drought , particularly up in the North China Plain which is at the best of times erm a semi-arid region . |
| 26 | You have specified a value for a client identifier which is outside the permitted range . |
| 27 | You have specified a value for a DC identifier which is outside the permitted range . |
| 28 | You have specified a value for a media identifier which is outside the permitted range . |
| 29 | You have specified a value for a product identifier which is outside the permitted range . |
| 30 | You have specified a value for a Software Performance Report ( SPR ) identifier which is outside the permitted range . |