Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the sport and television market appears to be a free-for-all to delight the most Darwinist of entrepreneurs , a scrutiny of those top five private networks soon reveals that four of them are in the hands of a holding firm called Finvest , which is itself the broadcasting vehicle of the Socialist-leaning businessman Silvio Berlusconi . |
| 2 | You are as familiar as I am with the processes of monetisation of debt and of the part which the money market in the City plays in the operation of that mechanism . |
| 3 | I see all objects as mirrors and I am behind the mirrors in another world but the beauty eludes me and is gone and will never return . |
| 4 | As I write this article ( in July ) I am in the throes of finishing my new ribber video , ‘ English and Fisherman 's Rib ’ . |
| 5 | and then I 'd know where I am , huh , I just ca n't go to it from this end , right I 'm out tonight , I 'm at the joiners with friends so |
| 6 | I 'm on the earlies in the morning now . |
| 7 | But I grant you that I 'm behind the times in some ways . |
| 8 | In the five minutes spent walking fast enough to shake them off , I 'm in the crowds in the main square , Djemaa el Fna . |
| 9 | I 'm in the sets above them . |
| 10 | Keith says , ‘ I 'm in the quarter-finals of the nude mud-wrestling at the Bricklayer 's Arms . ’ |
| 11 | I was on the terraces until five years ago . |
| 12 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 13 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 14 | I remember once I was on the steps of a hotel in Liverpool , and a middle-aged woman wearing a maroon coat came up and said , ‘ Hey , George , you know I 've always loved you , could I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 15 | Well not cos I felt like it but I was at the lights in Bromley this bloke , this , was stand- , sort of kept staring at my front passenger side wheel . |
| 16 | The blank pages in my diary testify as much , and in addition that I was too apathetic to continue recording just how bored I was in the periods between my bouts of organising activity . |
| 17 | ‘ I was in The Specials in 1980. |
| 18 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 19 | Er I mentioned in the earlier session today about erm a situation that appertained when I was in the police at Maidstone . |
| 20 | I 'm not big on soaps , though I was in The Newcomers for five weeks when I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 21 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |
| 23 | In the following month his was amongst the names of twenty foreign professors to receive the Micheliano Catalogo and in 1758 he appeared on a list of those to receive a consignment of seeds . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just the way you are when you are with the lesbians in the group . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't know how familiar you are with the accounts of the group as a whole . " |
| 26 | ‘ My son , ’ said Alex , ‘ you are on the horns of a dilemma . ’ |
| 27 | The scenario is world war two and you are at the controls of the fictional whirly-bird . |
| 28 | When you no longer have children dependent on you — and provided you are between the ages of 40 and 60 — you are eligible for a widow 's pension . |
| 29 | If you are between the ages of 36 and 45 , the maximum is 20 per cent . |
| 30 | If you are between the ages of 46 and 50 , the amount is 25 per cent . |