Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time she reached the front door the house , she knew , had to be hers for the summer . |
| 2 | Yet panels have to be one above the other , not side by side . |
| 3 | It really wants to be one without the roads marked . |
| 4 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 5 | ‘ If I was any of those people , ’ Ellie concluded , ‘ I 'd want to be one on the steamer , would n't you , Mr O'Hara ? ’ |
| 6 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 7 | The question is held to be one for the unrestricted discretion of the jury or magistrates who are allowed to find that even a bruise is enough . |
| 8 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 9 | Right , that 's fine , well I , that would be very good if there was a group at the coll at the coll at the college , there ought to be one at the college |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing is more remarkable ’ , wrote Wellesley , ‘ than the apathy of the people who have taken neither side of the question but look on the quarrel as to be one between the army and the king . ’ |
| 11 | There 's supposed to be one in the airing cupboard . |
| 12 | Of Dustin 's performance , though , Clive Barnes in The New York Times wrote , ‘ He has the strange ability to be himself on the stage . |
| 13 | Never did Pétain cease to be himself in the presence of the troops . |
| 14 | This apparently decisive comparison turns out , unfortunately , to be nothing of the sort . |
| 15 | It was going to be nothing of the sort . |
| 16 | Such conduct would clearly be a form of ‘ delivery ’ rather than the formal service effected by the authorities of the state of destination , but there seems to be nothing in the various Hague Conventions to suggest that the postal channel was any less valid than any other permitted mode . |
| 17 | There seems to be nothing in the early stages of the series which could support one continuation against the other . |
| 18 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 19 | Erm obviously other forms of power er the , the , the water barrage in the Severn erm Estuary and the wind power is , is something but obviously er the thing with this atomic power situation , it 's got to be something for the future . |
| 20 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose her autumn social life will be starting , ’ he said absently , ‘ and I suppose the note of my October magazine letter ought to be something about the autumn and winter social activities , ’ he went on , taking up his pen again . |
| 22 | So there has to be something in the world answering to the general predicate , just as there is something answering to the name . |
| 23 | ‘ Slugs and snails and puppy dogs ' tails ’ — there seems to be something in the popular imagination that finds snails slightly repulsive . |
| 24 | This has subsequently been changed , but suggests the view the SFA might take ; it would be logical for it to do so , since a market counterparty of this type is supposed to be someone on the same level as the firm . |
| 25 | This meant that his grandad was temporarily unavailable for a ‘ tap ’ , but there was bound to be someone in the cafe who would stand him a coffee . |
| 26 | The next Archdeacon of Woodborough is to be someone from the north , someone called Daniel Byrne . ’ |
| 27 | The match referee , a technician at his side if necessary , could be the magic eye , unless it is to be someone from the ranks of the umpires themselves . |
| 28 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you know what my mother 's always saying : everything in life has to be paid for , and you 've paid for the happiness that 's going to be yours in the future . |
| 30 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |