Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Many of these organisations are within a few minutes of the King 's Buildings .
2 Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole .
3 Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt .
4 I guessed we might be in the latter years of her reign — Shakespeare would still be alive !
5 This imagery is even more extraordinary when one considers that in this country , the Christian Churches are among the few places of worship where women can go whether they are menstruating or not .
6 In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level .
7 They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch .
8 He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others .
9 The temperature of maximum damping is usually associated with T g , and at low frequencies the value assigned to T g is within a few kelvins of that obtained from the static methods .
10 But in spite of Tess 's decision to forget her ancestors , the dairy , called Talbothays , especially attracted her because it was near the former lands of the old d'Urberville family .
11 One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show .
12 The most that was achieved was in a few examples of new highway construction ( in London the long-standing schemes of the Great West Road and the North Circular came to fruition ) ; and in the bigger cities , there were road-widening schemes , some stretches of dual carriageway and the occasional new project ( such as the Headrow in Leeds linked to redevelopment ) and some spectacular new projects ( such as the new suspension bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool/Birkenhead ) .
13 COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown .
14 When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs .
15 The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM .
16 The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street .
17 Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination .
18 Sabine was among the many girls of Irish descent who entered one of eight regional finals held in Guinness Irish pubs throughout Germany , all culminating in the national final held in the Irish Pub in Berlin 's Europa Centre .
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