Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was proposed to build a railway ‘ Halt ’ specifically for the Depot along the South Gate railway bridge , allowing workers from outlying districts to be within a minute 's walk of the Depot Gate . |
| 2 | Part or all of the aedeagus is held by some authors to be of a secondary , non-appendicular nature but others consider it to be formed by the division of the gonapophyses of the 9th abdominal segment , the two median halves fusing during development to form the penis while the lateral halves constitute the parameres . |
| 3 | I would not expect this work to be on a contingency basis and would expect the fees to fall in the range of £ [ ] — £ [ ] per hour . |
| 4 | There is an uncertainty in the sense that we today observe the universe to be in a state of expansion , that is the most distant galaxies and clusters and galaxies are all receding from one another at a high speed , which actually increases as you look farther and farther away from us . |
| 5 | At the end of the hour , before I lift off the lid of the box , the orthodox principles of quantum theory bid me consider the cat to be in a state which is an even-handed superposition of the states " alive " and " dead " . |
| 6 | Meeting in emergency session on May 25 , the Moldovan Supreme Soviet heard a call from Snegur " either to halt combat operations in the Dnestr region … or to declare Moldova to be in a state of war with Russia " . |
| 7 | Certainly , it was at one time essential for certain musical movements to be of a precise length , for otherwise the dancers of gavottes and minuets would find themselves in sorry confusion . |
| 8 | Nick 's stunning selection of fashion photographs , taken while on location in Miami , certainly enforce his feeling that Miami is the place to be as a fashion photographer . |
| 9 | It was a magical place to be on a hot Majorcan night . |
| 10 | Lochhead 's script is a joy , depicting through its energetic vernacular dialogue the texture of small-town Scottish life in the period , when girls carried bottles of Evening in Paris in their knickers and were in love with Montgomery Clift ; when the pictures cost 1/9d and the Locarno Ballroom on Sauchiehall Street was the place to be on a Saturday night , while at home fathers sat taciturn in armchairs , not listening to their wives . |
| 11 | ‘ London is no place to be in a heatwave , ’ he said . |
| 12 | But the reality was that the RPF had needed 200 or so seats to be in a position to force through constitutional reform and the return of de Gaulle . |
| 13 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 14 | The pastor , Laszlo Tokes — reported by Human Rights workers to be in a remote village in the Romanian district of Salaj — belongs to the latter , Calvinist denomination . |
| 15 | Posture is constrained not only by the physical dimensions of the work-space but also by the need to be in a position to see certain events and to feel others through control operations or machine movement . |
| 16 | For a cold blooded insect , the main reason for seasonal migration is probably the need to be in a warm enough place to allow an active life ; a warm blooded bird does not have that problem . |
| 17 | The new mills , factories and works tended to be in more or less remote places , partly because of the need to be near a falling stream for the supply of power , and later to escape too close inspection and regulation of their uninhibited activities . |
| 18 | I need answers to these questions to be in a position to request formally of our governing board that you should be free to use the name ‘ Oxford ’ . |
| 19 | Had she for instance dictated that the partner should offer resistance this would have been a relatively crude way of ‘ tightening ’ the structure compared with instructing the listener to be in a ‘ counsellor ’ role . |
| 20 | Similarly , no dog could perceive a bone to be inside a box in the way in which human adults can , because a baby 's sensorimotor understanding of spatial concepts is radically transformed ( not merely added to ) by learning of language . |
| 21 | For example , if you realise that you want your presentation to be on a different medium then you can do so — and see at a glance the effect of changing the underlying presentation style . |
| 22 | Amina Shah would like her four-year-old daughter Anna to be in a reception class rather than the nursery class where she will stay till she is nearly five . |
| 23 | CODEFF , a local affiliate of Friends of the Earth , is calling for forest development to be on a sustainable basis . |
| 24 | Subsequent timing observations have shown the pulsar to be in a 5.74-day circular orbit with a low-mass companion . |
| 25 | The retir , the retirement homes are being strategically placed in that position enabling people to be in a real central position so that they can get to all of the amenities they need . |
| 26 | What was most important was for the Cabinet to be in a position to take strategic decisions . |
| 27 | At the top of the backswing it is of great importance for the right knee and toes to be in a straight line . |
| 28 | Some review clauses require a review notice to be in a particular form ( for example , proposing a new rent ) ; others do not . |
| 29 | That case , if it was correct , would make it unnecessary for a lease to be of a certain duration . |
| 30 | Local politics are assumed in advance to be of a pluralist nature , and concerned with issues of consumption . |