Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And there 's another side to that which is that some people in the statutory provision are in it for the money , for their careers , for empire building and so on . |
| 2 | The Cross-Rail and channel tunnel high speed link are at nothing like the state of preparedness of Jubilee Line , that 's going ahead now after a lot of work , er th it it will not be the case er it that you can do either of those very quickly , Cross-Rail 's only just started going through the House of Commons . |
| 3 | White claims the hone is from something like the modern Pacific white-sided dolphin . |
| 4 | The green car was behind them on the pier , in the third line of queuing cars . |
| 5 | In short , the Regional Council and the District Council are at one on the matters referred to . |
| 6 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |
| 7 | The market was pleasantly stunned by the deal , since no-one had realised that the stake was worth anything like the sum agreed . |
| 8 | Whereby the task of the local planning authority , and the onus is on them without the initial negative presumption , the task before the local planning authority in refusing permission is made that much more difficult . |
| 9 | A fourth sack holds 400 Imperial gold crowns of some antiquity — the head of Carolus is on them with the date 1903 IC . |
| 10 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 11 | Then his warm , naked body was against hers beneath the covers and this time everything was magically different . |
| 12 | Note first , however , that categories being the invention of critics and books being the creation of writers , seldom will any of these sub-genres of crime fiction be without something of the others in it . |
| 13 | Your obituary 's on your in the paper when you 're dead . |
| 14 | Yeah well that 's erm , I mean , the only talking is between us at the moment it 's just , you know , . |
| 15 | ‘ You must think the whole world 's against you at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | Thank you , m may I just say to Committee , that this report is before you at the request of George . |
| 17 | Well , the doctor 's with her at the moment , although he should n't be long . |
| 18 | Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) . |
| 19 | I think that the other side of that is that not everyone in private provision is in it for the money . |
| 20 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |
| 21 | His dad was with him at the race , but he could n't find him and gave the grenade to a marshal . |
| 22 | ‘ When we were real little , my Dad was into anything from The Chieftains to Sly & The Family Stone , to Joe Cocker , to Buffalo Springfield ; there were so many different things that he loved . |
| 23 | Unfortunately his foot was in it at the time and I slammed it , at which point he pulled out a badge and said he was a cop . |
| 24 | Incest and necrophilia were as nothing to the amorous Egyptian gods . |
| 25 | Bird Ban time is upon us with the South Stack ( Gogarth ) bans beginning on the February 1st and most Pembroke bans starting on March 1st . |
| 26 | The next thing he knew was that the girl with the lovely face was with him in the hut , holding his head in her arms . |
| 27 | Hazel stamped , and a few moments later Dandelion was beside him in the bracken . |