Example sentences of "to be [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Nigeria , after only just over two years of the new system , it is still too early to be sure , but in general governments at federal and state level appear to be respecting the guarantees of freedom of expression . |
| 2 | The leaping flame of the fire can call to mind strange images , which seem to be beyond the boundaries of normal knowledge . |
| 3 | ‘ Meaning ’ atheists do not make the claim that language about God is incommunicable either — in their case because they do not regard it as emanating from a philosophical No Go area labelled ‘ metaphysics ’ that is pronounced to be beyond the bounds of sense . |
| 4 | One consequence is that the thought patterns of primitive society , being felt to lack a scientific approach , are generally felt to be beyond the bounds of reason . |
| 5 | That William and Mary Prince and Princesse of Orange bee and bee declared , King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions there unto belonging to hold the Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdom 's and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princesss during their lives and the life of the Survivor of them and that the Sole and full exercise of the Regall Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princesse during their Joynt lives And after their deceases the said Crowne and Roy all Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the heires of the body of the said Princesse : And for default of such Issue to the Princesse Anne of Denmarke and the heires of her body . |
| 6 | The form of control was to be through the concepts of purpose and relevancy , and each of the alleged reasons put forward by the Minister for not referring was subjected to them . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) taking a suspect to the parade seemed to the court to be outside the provisions for the administration of the parade itself and so there was no breach of the Code . |
| 8 | At the heart my belief … is the conviction that no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study . |
| 9 | When Scholes writes that ‘ no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study ’ , I am reminded of C. S. Lewis 's argument that any piece of writing has a claim to being literary if someone can read it in a ‘ literary ’ — i.e. an absorbed , attentive , loving — fashion . |
| 10 | Even the lighter stories tended to be along the lines of parrots who played the commodities market . |
| 11 | When children discuss each other 's work out of role it tends to be along the lines of " The door opened different ways , Miss " or " You just walked through the table . " |
| 12 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 13 | Efforts to control whaling between the wars was said to be for the purposes of resource conservation ; that they were really concerned with managing the flow of whale oil through international markets . |
| 14 | She was nervous of all Men , and preferred to be with the women of the Court . |
| 15 | She does n't want to be with the likes of us . |
| 16 | Has to be on a runners on the side as well otherwise it would just fall down . |
| 17 | The Army had fought enough battles about their right to be on the streets at the end of the last century when Salvationists had been imprisoned , ridiculed , despised and attacked by hooligans . |
| 18 | Retailers with power will , perhaps less commonly , use it to invoke restraints such as slotting allowances for the right of a manufacturer 's product to be on the shelves of a supermarket . |
| 19 | Mravinsky 's attitude to dynamics seems to be on the lines of ‘ no gradual inflexion unless explicit instructions are given to the contrary ’ . |
| 20 | Similarly , if runners-up win substantial prizes , arrange where possible for the handover to be on the premises of a local supplier . |
| 21 | an Article 85-type prohibition of anticompetitive agreements , including an illustrative , but not exhaustive , list of banned practices such as price fixing , collusive tendering , resale price maintenance ( RPM ) , market sharing , and collective boycotts : the focus of the prohibition is to be on the effects of agreements rather than the specific form that they take ; |
| 22 | Those who depend entirely for their income on the state pension and means-tested income support benefits are likely to be on the fringes of unacceptable poverty unless the level of benefits is increased . |
| 23 | One is believed to be on the outskirts of Middlesbrough , near The Post House Hotel . |
| 24 | Accurately-timed aerial photographs of the water-line together with tide-tables gave contour maps of the beaches accurate to horizontal metres and vertical centimetres , There was very nearly a breach of security because of Bernal 's desire to be on the beaches by D + 1 . |
| 25 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |
| 26 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 27 | I wanted to be at the pictures with my family . |
| 28 | This is a consideration of principle rather than practical reality , since the relevant law is often obscure , and unlikely to be at the fingertips of the qualified lawyer let alone the layman . |
| 29 | ‘ That means you 're going to be off the streets for quite a while . ’ |
| 30 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |