Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are rather at the point of arguing that the state , and in particular its bureaucracy , may be free from subordination and manipulation by the ruling class in order to preserve its interests in the long run and as a whole . |
| 2 | In the case of the evidence produced by informal interviews we , the readers , are rather in the position of hearing a case put by only one counsel and not the other . |
| 3 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
| 4 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
| 5 | Yeah , I mean , the next pubs are right over the side of the hospital , |
| 6 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 7 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 8 | So I think I made this point before that the people who are right at the top of politics are the ones who are very good at flattery , duplicity , manipulation and so on and these , are these really the qualities we want in our government ? |
| 9 | And the French are right at the forefront of design again . |
| 10 | Having said all that , the famous Ipsos nightlife is practically on the doorstep as these apartments are right in the middle of town . |
| 11 | These two buildings , owned and managed by the Kendler family , are right in the middle of St Gilgen , and only two minutes walk from the lake and promenade . |
| 12 | The important thing about these volcanoes is that since they are right in the middle of the Pacific , they are basaltic , and their basalts are hot and very fluid . |
| 13 | ‘ We are right in the middle of watching one of our favourite programmes , ’ Mr Wormwood said . |
| 14 | It will probably start on Boxing Day when we are right in the middle of winter . |
| 15 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 16 | I am blatantly against the use of monkey climbers because small movements can be undetected which in turn could lead to deep hooked pike . |
| 17 | Among the dozens of glues now available the arguments for and against are mostly on the grounds of ease of application , durability and cost . |
| 18 | The third category , 98 sheets , are mostly in the Highlands of Scotland : they scored low in comparison with the sheets chosen for full or part resurvey . |
| 19 | Since the SADS-L is normally used in a face-to-face interview situation these items are mostly in the form of questions and here the original wording was retained . |
| 20 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 21 | I believe the walls at the the foot are somewhere in the region of nineteen feet thick . |
| 22 | Can you see the sand on this path where the water 's been right over the top of it ? |
| 23 | He 'd been right about the shelter of the hedge . |
| 24 | When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village . |
| 25 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 26 | It has often been pointed out , and in my view with justice , that the school curriculum has in the past been overwhelmingly in the power of the universities . |
| 27 | The preliminary findings are presumably in the hands of the Government , but we are not being given access to it . ’ |
| 28 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 29 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 30 | Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone . |