Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ADD obtain maximum likelihood estimates by maximizing the criterion with respect to the α 's and β : i 's in the structure in equation ( 6.14 ) , where n is the sample size . |
| 2 | ‘ I bet 'er 's in the family way . |
| 3 | ‘ Yours is at the end there , ’ said the Headmaster . |
| 4 | Here 's yours , yours is on the radiator Richard . |
| 5 | ‘ I suspect that some devious ploy of yours is in the offing . ’ |
| 6 | Someone 's at the door ! |
| 7 | Someone 's at the door ! |
| 8 | I said , I 'm frightened someone 's in the 'ouse , I 'm frightened not waking everybody well , well what do you do , I says , you do n't , unless you have a go , you do n't , I mean , if I 'd turned out you know , you do n't really know . |
| 9 | How would you know whether someone 's in the house or not ? |
| 10 | You move closer , and find that someone is at the bottom of a deep pit . |
| 11 | Fido can be trained to give the alert if someone is at the door , if the telephone is ringing or a visitor is coming up the path . |
| 12 | You may want your dog to bark initially , to alert you to the fact that someone is at the door . |
| 13 | Someone is in the middle and all the other children in a circle are holding hands . |
| 14 | Instead of coding the class background of respondents as 1 , 2 or 3 to denote service , intermediate or working class , for example , the information is effectively presented as two dichotomous variables — whether someone is in the service class or not , and in the intermediate class or not . |
| 15 | Always try to make it look as if someone is in the house — leave a light on or a radio playing . |
| 16 | Chopper looks more like 'e 's on the run from Dartmoor than a bloody Salvation Army bloke . ’ |
| 17 | At 17 miles 2 chains , which is between the railway bridge over the Onny and the stone overbridge , known to the BCR as Longville Bridge , he required a screen 8 feet high and 80 yards long , on the north side of the line . |
| 18 | In the principal street , which is at the back of the locomotives ' building , there are six houses of three shops on the ground floor . |
| 19 | Those points you 'll find again summed up in a hand-out which is at the back on the seats there . |
| 20 | The condition of ‘ between-ness ’ is then one of doubling which is at the origin of ‘ fraternization ’ and transgression . |
| 21 | It is not a role which is subordinate to the Twelve — the hon. Gentleman was mistaken in that — but nor is it a function which will be prejudicial to NATO , which is at the core of our defence arrangements . |
| 22 | This point means for example that the gases from the engine escape from the faulty manifold ( which is at the exit point adjacent to the engine ) or a broken front pipe , a broken expansion chamber or from the silencer provided this occurs before they pass through it . |
| 23 | Will he remind any business man foolish enough to think that a Labour Government would be better for business of the myriad proposals which would prove the truth to be quite the opposite , which would make life far more difficult and which would especially energise union militancy which is at the bottom of some of the proposals ? |
| 24 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 25 | The only access to the port is through the Gillingham Gate which is at the north end of Bridge Road . |
| 26 | PRIZE : The Midland Study Centre prize for excellence in Construction Project Management has been won by Adrian Wheeler M. He started the MSc in Construction Project Management at the Centre , which is at the University of Central England , in 1990 sponsored by Dudley Health Authority where he was employed as capital works officer . |
| 27 | The girl 's landlady had made a packed lunch from pork which is at the centre of a botulism alert . |
| 28 | The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography . |
| 29 | We ought therefore , in the battle of ideas which is at the centre of the political struggle , to be confident in the strength of our intellectual case . |
| 30 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |