Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few players do n't even know what is the capital of France when they 're in Paris playing the French Open . |
| 2 | erm is that er in the case of the postal wallet you 're in effect presenting the prospective house buyer with their business card every time you |
| 3 | MOVES are under way to switch the Five Nations Championship from its traditional position in the rugby calendar to March and April . |
| 4 | Thomas Cook 's UK travel agency network had its best year ever last year and plans are under way to increase the current branch network of 340 by at least another 100 over the next two years . |
| 5 | Similarly , crop plants and microorganisms with a high degree of resistance to damage by some herbicides are under investigation to determine the genetic nature of the resistance . |
| 6 | Mr. Chaudoir has been in England to attend the contemporary music festival Tempo ‘ 92 , at which he was the featured composer . |
| 7 | This was both for the hell of it , as well as for the annals of the newly developing discipline of psycho-anthropology , whose aims are in part to define the global range of human ability . |
| 8 | Dicey thus identifies the growth in power of the party machine as the source of the problem : ‘ Coalitions , log-rolling , and parliamentary intrigue are in England diminishing the moral and political faith in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 9 | The problem essentially is that instead of estimating the true MPC t α t , in equation ( 3.6 ) we are in fact estimating the composite function in equation ( 3.13 ) . |
| 10 | All these contributions and more , in addition to the required time , must be forthcoming if the committees and interfaces are in fact to produce the close coupling and co-ordinated collaboration these firms need . |
| 11 | The new stone signs are now in place at the Groves Road and Castletown Road entrances , lending lustre to the Village , and negotiations are in hand to do the same at the Nursing Home end in the near future . |
| 12 | Since Cicely Harris 's retirement Pauline Kenward has undertaken arrangements for this event and following requests for a new venue plans are in hand to hold the next Dinner Dance on Friday 18th February 1983 at the Queen 's Hotel , Crystal Palace . |
| 13 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 14 | And his perfect ending would be for Villa to become the first winners of the Premier League and break United 's hearts for the second successive season in a title run-in . |
| 15 | But constitutional expert Michael Nash , who is soon to bring out a book , A Royal Divorce , about the history of the British monarchy , said last night : ‘ The best thing to happen would be for William to become the next in line to the throne . |
| 16 | It may be of use to compare the regional groupings of brooch types with those areas which are revealed as high consumers of imported luxury goods ; whilst such a correlation tells us nothing about the mode of production of the brooches , it does provide some articulation to the distribution maps . |
| 17 | In the case of an off-market transaction it may be of importance to determine the precise legal position of the transferor and transferee pending registration of the transfer which , if there are restrictions on transferability may never occur . |
| 18 | In the event Bernard was allowed his extensions and the only stipulation was that the wall facing the road must be in stone to match the adjacent stone-built bridge , rather than in brick , which would have been cheaper . |
| 19 | Mr Ayckbourn , who is currently writing a new musical which will receive its world premiere at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough , will be in Leeds to launch the National Bibliographic Service 's computer software system which will make its records available on CD-ROM . |
| 20 | However , several copies of the record are thought to be in circulation carrying the original Reception logo . |
| 21 | What is said above about making consistent lists is even more important in a tonal language where the sound(s) to check should ideally be in words having the same tone pattern . |
| 22 | The first payment due to you which will be credited to your business bank account will be on week commencing the seventh of the February . |
| 23 | ‘ Let those that are without sin cast the first stone . ’ |
| 24 | He 's been to Mongolia to hunt the long-eared hedgehog . |
| 25 | He 's been to Mongolia to hunt the long-eared hedgehog . |
| 26 | Although we know from other sources that Emily Faithfull 's London apprentices and journey-women were in fact paid the full male rate ( though with some amendment of the apprenticeship system ) , it was clear that she and other promoters of the scheme did anticipate that the consequence might be to lower wages in the printing trade . |
| 27 | Three EC forums were in place to solve the Yugoslav crisis : the EC Peace Conference chaired by Lord Carrington bringing together representatives of the former Yugoslav states ; the Conference on Bosnia-Hercegovina under Portuguese EC envoy José Cutilheiro ; and the Arbitration Commission , chaired by Robert Badinter . |
| 28 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 29 | They were offered the same curriculum as the rest of the unstreamed class , i.e. they were on course to fail the 11 plus . |
| 30 | Sony were on hand to take the best of several live performances as the latest in a Puccini cycle which has already shed light on two rarities ( the early Le Villi , the late but surprisingly light La Rondine ) and will go on to Edgar — which Maazel had hoped he would record with Domingo at the time of the Fanciulla production but ‘ we looked at the schedule and realized , fortunately in time , that we were totally insane ’ . |