Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nation has a very large civil service but a mixture of disdain for and suspicion of its civil servants … our leading governmental institutions are without the benefits of great formal authority and respect . |
| 2 | Some of those cases are before the courts at the moment . |
| 3 | While it is clear what the publishers stand to gain by investing both money and effort in ensuring that their key titles are on the shelves at all times , there might be more reluctance on the part of the booksellers to accept this encroachment onto their territory . |
| 4 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 5 | The candidate whose immediate queries are along the lines of , ‘ When will I get my first pay rise ? ’ , or ‘ Will I be able to go on holiday in July ? ’ will probably not be putting the job first and certainly lacks the good sense and tact to make it appear to be the priority . |
| 6 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 7 | But while all eyes are on the hot-spots of Eastern Europe the real action is taking place in clubland . |
| 8 | Next , if you want to try to get sponsorship then write to the importers or dealers in this country — their addresses are in the ads of this magazine — do n't try writing direct to the USA , they wo n't want to know . |
| 9 | These parameters are at the limits of those allowed by treefall simulations . |
| 10 | Its funding and negotiations with authors are in the hands of a general editor at Layer IV , assisted by a small group of editors at Layer 111 , each working on projects that may take up to 18 months to complete . |
| 11 | These two books are about the ways in which two important groups of mammals — the ruminants and the marsupials — utilise different food resources . |
| 12 | Unbreakable cups and space shuttles were among the uses of new engineering materials cited by an enthusiastic Dr Ian McColm ( Bradford ) at the NE Region Education Division ( NERED ) teacher 's conference at Sheffield Polytechnic in November . |
| 13 | About 10 foreigners were among the victims of political violence in 1989 , with the result that foreign aid workers , archaeologists and tourists increasingly withdrew from or avoided rural areas . |
| 14 | On closer examination , however , it was immediately clear that Franco did not trust the Falangists in the areas most closely related to the exercise of real power ( i.e. to the control of the force of arms ) : all three defence Ministries were in the hands of military men well known for anti-Falangist political sympathies . |
| 15 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 16 | Turned wooden vessels were amongst the grave-goods in the ship burial of Sutton Hoo mound 1 . |
| 17 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 18 | Egypt 's largest concentrations of ancient sites are around the cities of Cairo and Luxor . |
| 19 | ( a ) Unregistered title When the title 's unregistered , a schedule of documents will be a standard requirement and can be prepared now , unless the title deeds are in the hands of the seller 's mortgagee for whom you do n't act , in which case his or her solicitor will prepare the schedule , not you , and you can strike it out of your own agenda . |
| 20 | Other Areas are in the throes of heavy training schedules and will create a highly competitive spirit in Portlaoise . |
| 21 | The models are on the books of Alison Campbell Associates and Style Academy , both Belfast-based agencies . |
| 22 | ‘ Most of my monuments are to the victims of Fascism , to the Partisan movements . |
| 23 | And both movements are in the throes of similar internal debates between those who believe that a step-by-step , incremental approach to reform is the best means to make progress and those who believe in a far more absolutist confrontational approach . |
| 24 | ‘ These matters are in the hands of our solicitors , ’ he added . |
| 25 | For the twentieth century as a whole , the variations in solar irradiance implied by the analyses are within the bounds of possibility . |
| 26 | Apocalyptic expectations , envisaging the end of the world as we know it , have strangely survived abandonment of the belief that all our lives are in the hands of Providence . |
| 27 | As with a number of other regions , a number of these early mill sites were in the hands of religious foundations , such as the Benedictines and Cistercian Orders who , up to the time of their suppression in the 16th century , owned as many mills as any of the estates or manors in Britain . |
| 28 | Many of the participating countries were in the throes of profound economic and social crises ; at the same time popular dissatisfaction with entrenched regimes was becoming more vociferous . |
| 29 | His chief concerns were with the conditions of labour and education of the working classes , and he was the instigator of the Factory Act of 18 19 , which prohibited the employment in textile mills of children under ten , and reduced working hours for those under eighteen . |
| 30 | Furthermore , a quarter of the freeholdings were in the hands of completely different families from those which had held them in 1575 . |