Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 2 | Yarrow , cranesbill , goldenrod , globe thistle , rose campion and Michaelmas daisies are usually in the birds ' top ten of herbaceous plants . |
| 3 | The system should allow for some unexpected failures , which are out of the drivers ' control , to occur . ’ |
| 4 | At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home . |
| 5 | Smith does n't want to be out of the selectors ' minds at the start of the tour because he is desperate to improve on his overseas record for England . |
| 6 | But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time . |
| 7 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
| 8 | Last night Carol 's distraught parents , from Southport , Merseyside , were still at the newly-weds ' home in Los Angeles . |
| 9 | Alexandra Loyd , her cousin Diana Wake-Walker and Claire Pratt , the daughter of her godmother Sarah Pratt , were also at the all-girls ' boarding-school near Diss in Norfolk . |
| 10 | One or two people said that you were n't in the Americans ' league . ‘ |
| 11 | The work opportunities are primarily in the tailors ' shop , a laundry ( which services a number of other prisons ) , a printing shop and an assembly shop . |
| 12 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 13 | It should be remembered by the advisers that , following completion , the management and the investors will work together as a team and it is not in the investors ' interests to antagonise or demoralise their management team at the outset . |
| 14 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
| 15 | This means that Peter Finnerty , one of the most experienced players in the Galway squad , is still on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 16 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |
| 17 | It 's more like a childrens ' afternoon TV show than a science lesson , but there 's a message in every device . |
| 18 | Graphically the game is up to the Codies ' usual high standards , the sprites being extremely cutesy ( I hate that word , it 's so barf-worthy ) . |
| 19 | Expert clauses very commonly provide that the decision will be final and binding , and it is clearly in the parties ' interests that it should be so . |
| 20 | But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools , provided that was not against the parents ' principles . |
| 21 | This was more to the Swedes ' liking , taking 5 of the first 8 places , including the top 3 . |
| 22 | SNOOKER star Neal Foulds was back in the winners ' enclosure at Motherwell last night after a four-year wait . |
| 23 | He had reached the top of the fourth carpeted flight of stairs when he realised he was now in the members ' bedroom corridor . |
| 24 | And it was n't for the others ' safety . |