Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily had taken her revenge swiftly , severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans . |
| 2 | An example is the 1975 pay award in BR , which had already been through the RSNT when the Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened to press management to resume negotiations and make a higher offer ( see ch. 9 ) . |
| 3 | Recent figures show offenders who 've been through the Grendon process ; many of them for murder , manslaughter , or serious sexual assaults are far less likely to re-offend . |
| 4 | We know you 've both been through the HMS Dolphin Submarine Escape Tower and that you 've done more than a fair bit of free diving . |
| 5 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 6 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 7 | Had it not been for the I.M.F . |
| 8 | The two sides might have parted company there and then had it not been for the GLEB 's condition that someone with newspaper business experience should be on the executive . |
| 9 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 10 | The original intention had been for the Quins players , seven of whom were in England 's Grand Slam squad , to have Easter off . |
| 11 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 12 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 14 | Owned by Raymond Guest and trained in Ireland by Vincent O'Brien , Sir Ivor came to Laurel Park as probably the best European challenger there had yet been for the Washington International . |
| 15 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 16 | Not even being allowed to come and see you — if it had n't been for the Suvarovs I think I 'd have gone mad . ’ |
| 17 | Had it not been for the EPA relaxation of the ozone standard from 0.08 to 0.12 ppm in February 1979 , following strong pressure from the petroleum industry , many more tens of millions of people would be regarded as living in areas with unacceptable air quality . |
| 18 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 19 | The pleas for conservative guards might have died away had it not been for the Bristol riots which broke out on 29 October and raged for three days . |
| 20 | Did this , he was asked yesterday , mean that the economy had not been managed as well as it might have been during the Thatcher years ? |
| 21 | I just wanted to know what the ticket arrangements are for the Liverpool game at Anfield later in September . |
| 22 | Culturally I must acknowledge my Spanish blood , but my sympathies are for the Quechua experience . |
| 23 | Unless otherwise specified , the futures contracts reported are for the USA . |
| 24 | The instructions below are for the Osma system in which the joints , elbows and outlets have their own fixing holes . |
| 25 | and then then those are for the Derek and Clare symbiote . |
| 26 | All distances are as the Devon crow flies . |
| 27 | High as their hopes had been after the OpEC price rise of 1973 , the Group of 77 failed to get substantial support for its proposed Integrated programme for Commodities . |
| 28 | I am of the Malleus . ’ |
| 29 | The Department of Employment in their Partnership Handbook publication , recommend and increase in the numbers of teachers undertaking secondment into industry as a key performance indicator of partnership activity , as it has been of the TVEI extension programme . |
| 30 | Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon . |