Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end . |
| 2 | Owls hooted and bats fluttered , and the pirates were glad to be past the eerie gravestones and the gloomy prison door . |
| 3 | North Yorkshire chief executive Ron Leyland said they were glad to be among the first considered but felt the present system worked well . |
| 4 | I went out on to the roof , glad to be in the fresh air after the smoky room and the raksi . |
| 5 | I ca n't see them involved in killing an Englishman ; they 're supposed to be on the same side . ’ |
| 6 | You and Joey are supposed to be on the same team . |
| 7 | We 're supposed to be on the same side . ’ |
| 8 | That 's interesting , there 's a little there 's a little thing in either end of this microphone er I wonder which erm perhaps it 's supposed to be on the directional ? |
| 9 | Once , during the shooting of Carry On Regardless , Ken was supposed to be at the Ideal Home Exhibition . |
| 10 | This question was supposed to be about the Baltic states , but as we have become hooked on gold , I think that we had better have the answer . |
| 11 | Broadcasters were supposed to be outside the political arena , and held attitudes different from those of their colleagues in the press , many of whom were political campaigners . |
| 12 | I mean he was n't supposed to be in the fitting shop anyways . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman is supposed to be in the medical profession , so he will know that that was not a yawn ; I was choking . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not being modest about it , but I was lucky to be in the right place at the vital moment ’ , he says . |
| 15 | Celtic are likely to be without the last Parkhead man to score , Joe Miller , injured playing for the Scotland Under-21s in midweek . |
| 16 | The biographer , therefore , is likely to work on people of some fame , whatever their spheres of activity may be , and so the biography is more likely to be about the famous ( or notorious ) person , the outstanding success or the eye-catching , unusual personality . |
| 17 | Ring fencing is likely to be along the following lines ( commencing with senior posts ) : |
| 18 | Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was . |
| 19 | Initially , if they belonged to the Church of England , they were likely to be of the evangelical tendency so disturbing to comfortable Anglican parsons and laymen . |
| 20 | This is usually achieved easily enough by line breeding , though if the mutated genes are not dominant only a percentage of each brood is likely to be of the new form . |
| 21 | Communications remain important though the talk now is more likely to be of the high speed 1990s and the proposed link between the M1 and M62 or the rail freight link from ‘ Port Wakefield , ’ via the Channel Tunnel to the continent . |
| 22 | 66 ) , i.e. a type C arrangement , is later than c. 320 ( it is more likely to be of the later decade of the third century ) . |
| 23 | When the trust is in demand , prices are likely to be at the upper end of the range and the trust is said to be on an ‘ offer ’ basis . |
| 24 | The Lithuanian order is an unusually large one so it is likely to be at the bottom end of that range . |
| 25 | It is artificially constrained in a way that ensures that the burden is not fairly distributed and those at the top end of the property range , and very likely to be at the top end of the income range , are being given shelter which is not justified . |
| 26 | Ten years ago , evidence of the gap between organisations and members was generally hailed , on the left , as a conflict between stodgy bureaucrats and heroic workers ; today , the left is likely to be on the receiving end of complaints about unresponsiveness , paternalism and manipulation . |
| 27 | Those who go to war with an non-networked PC are likely to be on the wrong side of the line or at least run out of tank spares first . |
| 28 | The green figure was equally likely to be on the left or right , and 50% of the probes matched in both cases . |
| 29 | One direction in which it may move is to replace some existing degree courses by two-year diplomas , though if this comes about it is not likely to be before the late 1980s . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the class factor remains important : according to Wilkin , women undergraduates are more likely to be from the middle class than men ( Wilkin , 1982 ) . |