Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most British coal mines are outside the main industrial conurbations , and their employees live in isolated settlements — ‘ pit villages ’ — which offer no alternative work and are not very accessible to other employment opportunities . |
| 2 | Because most of the closest-fought states are in the Eastern Time zone , American TV networks expect to be able to forecast the final result from 2am on Wednesday . |
| 3 | … The proceedings in the present case are for the direct purpose of handing the appellant over so that he may be dealt with on these charges . |
| 4 | In deciding to get together the two firms reveal that they think this union will be in their private interest , but we must ask whether mergers are in the public interest . |
| 5 | One method may be through variations in government expenditure and taxation since these flows are under the direct control of the authorities . |
| 6 | In addition Joey Dunlop , Johnny Rea and new Regal champion Ian King are in the main event . |
| 7 | Swindon are on the right tracks … at the end of the line is Hameenlinan … the last game of the summer tour … |
| 8 | ‘ Just as well that the Germans are on the other side of Seine : I can sleep late today . ’ |
| 9 | The copies are of the Tyrannic ides , Harmodios and Aristogeiton , by Kritios and Nesiotes ( the nature of whose collaboration we do not know ) , set up in the Agora at Athens in 477/6 to replace those by Antenor , carried off to Persepolis by Xerxes . |
| 10 | Often this can not be avoided where odours emanate from existing premises and uses , but where new development is concerned planning authorities are in the unique position of being able to prevent odour pollution . |
| 11 | Movements of base level are of the utmost importance in understanding landforms in most parts of the world , for the earth 's surface is in an unstable period of its history . |
| 12 | No deal is certain until the signatures are on the dotted line and the money comes through . |
| 13 | Eire 's central defenders are in the veteran class and Kernaghan should win a call-up next season |
| 14 | Currently , music business solicitors are in the talent-spotting game , just like record companies , publishers , managers and agents . |
| 15 | Cowslips , bluebells , water lilies , snowdrops and wood anemones are among the common flowers being threatened by amateur gardeners , according to a survey conducted by Gardening Which ? , a journal of the Consumer 's Association . |
| 16 | But although there are hundreds of freshwater lochs in Shetland , the majority are on the acidic peatlands and do not produce enough underwater vegetation to satisfy the needs of big grazing birds like swans . |
| 17 | The majority are from the surrounding small towns and villages , but some exhibitors come from as far afield as Lincolnshire . |
| 18 | The dealers and auction houses are on the other side , saying that any national droit de suite in the United States would create a huge administrative morass for the benefit of a few already-wealthy artists that would help drive the US art market overseas or underground . |
| 19 | Wigan 's John Monie , Darryl Van de Velde at Castleford and St Helens ' Mike McClennan are in the final year of their contracts . |
| 20 | For many young blacks , the only jobs that offer a secure future and steady income are in the armed forces . |
| 21 | Our resorts are off the beaten track ; to reach them we fly to offbeat airfields with skimpy facilities , or we take unfashionably long bus drives from better known airports . |
| 22 | This would leave intact the procedure of notification au parquet to which the authors of the Convention took such exception , or even a device such as that once recognised in the English ecclesiastical courts of affixing citation of a foreign resident ‘ upon one of the columns of the Royal Exchange , or in front of some other well-known building , in a place of public resort , which merchants are in the daily habit of frequenting or passing by ’ . |
| 23 | Internal matters in Zanzibar are in the exclusive jurisdiction of the Zanzibar executive , the Revolutionary Council of Zanzibar . |
| 24 | Freundlich , Belling , Kolbe , Scheibe , and Marcks are among the other sculptors on show . |
| 25 | Readers with even rudimentary medical knowledge will be aware that swollen joints , clenching hands and itching or scaling skin are among the baleful symptoms of advanced psoriatic arthropophy . |
| 26 | An emerging key group of provides in this field are from the private sector . |
| 27 | His fights are with the Russian Democracy and the British Labour Party " . |
| 28 | The Col du Somport and the upper valley of the Aspe are at the western end of the Pyrenean National Park — to be exact , a narrow tongue of this extends across on the other , western side of the valley into the ring of mountains forming the Cirque of Lescun . |
| 29 | Early times are on the left , and late times are on the right . |
| 30 | The most prospective areas for Pennine-style mineralisation are in the concealed carbonate shelf adjacent to listric faults such as the area to the north-east of the Gainsborough Basin . |