Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] be [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There was a pool of isolation and she was in the middle of it .
2 one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry .
3 I 'm joined by Phyllis Starkey , she 's the leader of the Oxford City Council , the leader of the Labour Group , and Michael Wright is from the Liberal Democrats , and Queenie Warley is a former mayor and she 's from the Conservative benches .
4 A hurried tea and they were on the move again .
5 When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard .
6 It 's the most irritable type of scalp condition and it 's on the increase .
7 Within an hour he had kissed Maeve adieu and they were on the road south to Westminster .
8 Sad and profound chants are intoned in the wind and I am in the presence of a numberless and devout congregation .
9 Or C , take it as a real compliment and you are on the same wavelength ?
10 I ca n't understand that either , they ai n't getting no relief off of their poll tax and yet they 're , yet she 's not at work and he 's on the dole , and they still having to pay full whack .
11 ( 2 ) That a requirement that the plaintiffs should give an undertaking had no justification in Community law since any obligation to make good any damage suffered by the defendants in the event of section 47 being found to be in breach of article 30 of the Treaty would fall upon the United Kingdom Government ; that accordingly , the question was to be decided on the ordinary principles of English law and it was within the judge 's discretion not to require an undertaking in damages ; and that in the circumstances , the grant of an interlocutory injunction was fully justified and should be restored ( post , pp. 173D–F , 189A–H , 190A–C , D , D–E ) .
12 He looks like him but he 's in green and he 's like the Punisher but he 's trigger happy boy .
13 The present provisions were introduced by Part IV of the Companies Act 1989 which inserted a new Part XII into the 1985 Act and it is to the 1989 interpolations that reference will be made throughout this chapter .
14 It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed .
15 Most training jumps are done from a height of 12,000 feet ; any higher and you need oxygen and you 're in the realms of military freefall , which is just what we 'll be looking at in part 3 of Free fall USA .
16 ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip .
17 Completion of a certificate will give students a half credit towards a master 's degree and we are in the process of developing a half-credit MA module on Research Methods to complement this .
18 ‘ He was very much an East End boy and I was from the country , ’ explains Shrimpton .
19 It was as we started our second run and we were at the lights at the corner of Portman Square , that I saw the cops had concentrated themselves on the traffic island in Baker Street .
20 This is a decision by the Natural Environment Research Council and it is for the best scientific reasons .
21 In these days when party politics have entered so fully into local government , nominations to committees frequently come from the political groups of the council and it is at the group meetings of the council that a new member should stake his claim for membership of particular committees of his choice .
22 Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything .
23 Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk .
24 And er there was only one who could n't take part and he was in the fire brigade and could n't take part because they were er his employers .
25 So anyway I said , oh well get some change and I was on the point of sa I said to Margaret shall we jump in the ruddy car and we 'll get back .
26 What was behind the dark robe and what was within the deep , all-concealing hood ?
27 I find that some of the ‘ B ’ band kids are doing the same syllabus , and in some cases they get the same marks or better marks than us , yet they ca n't do ‘ O ’ level and they 're in the ‘ B ’ band .
28 Now this last one here is called Living the Prayer and it 's like the other quite a few of the others , erm but it 's for you , it 's not for not for us it 's not to be shared .
29 The onus of showing reliance has now shifted away from the buyer and it is for the seller to prove that there was no reasonable reliance .
30 Apparently , they 've issued a description and it 's in the hands of the police . ’
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