Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Architectural influence here is not notable since timber has been for centuries the traditional building material . |
| 2 | He 'll be on tenterhooks the whole time , and muttering to the parents things like : ‘ A true eccentric , our Mr McWhirter , but a very fine scholar in his field . ’ ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I read somewhere of how Steve McQueen had been on drugs the whole time we were shooting Bullitt . |
| 4 | Some of them were like babies the little babies |
| 5 | Persian is also one of the two principal languages of Afghanistan , is spoken in what was Soviet Central Asia , and was for centuries the official language of much of the Indian subcontinent , where many fine poets wrote in Persian . |
| 6 | On a rocky eminence commanding what was for centuries the lowest point at which the Forth could be bridged , the castle — on the site of a Roman fort — and its steeply pitched town stand between what was once a marshy plain and the shadowy beginnings of the Highlands beyond , with the Ochils and Trossachs already edging in . |
| 7 | The sexual relationship between the victim and accused was on occasions the focal point of the press coverage . |