Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nation has a very large civil service but a mixture of disdain for and suspicion of its civil servants … our leading governmental institutions are without the benefits of great formal authority and respect . |
| 2 | The famous ‘ spider woman ’ of Erddig duly appears on the cover of The Servants ' Hall , but most of the accounts are of the menservants . |
| 3 | Some of those cases are before the courts at the moment . |
| 4 | For in a similar vein to the criminal ‘ enemy ’ , the researcher 's activities are across the bounds , a challenge to be taken on , attacked , and , destroyed or at least to be denied . |
| 5 | While it is clear what the publishers stand to gain by investing both money and effort in ensuring that their key titles are on the shelves at all times , there might be more reluctance on the part of the booksellers to accept this encroachment onto their territory . |
| 6 | Most of the meetings are for the purposes of electing Elders and Deacons ; selecting dates for Communion and purging and adding to the roll in preparation ; electing a representative in the Presbytery and Synod ; and acting as a court of discipline . |
| 7 | Styles of dress , hairstyles , musical interests , speech and language use , leisure activities , and values are among the characteristics that teenagers appear to learn , in part , by watching and comparing themselves to others in their group . |
| 8 | More than half of the 999 calls are for the police and , since crime is rising , Oftel estimates that the current average of 60,000 calls a day will rise to 70,000 by the mid 1990s . |
| 9 | The candidate whose immediate queries are along the lines of , ‘ When will I get my first pay rise ? ’ , or ‘ Will I be able to go on holiday in July ? ’ will probably not be putting the job first and certainly lacks the good sense and tact to make it appear to be the priority . |
| 10 | It is obvious , argues Cutler , how suitable these characteristics are for the needs of bourgeois society . |
| 11 | They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards . |
| 12 | But while all eyes are on the hot-spots of Eastern Europe the real action is taking place in clubland . |
| 13 | Next , if you want to try to get sponsorship then write to the importers or dealers in this country — their addresses are in the ads of this magazine — do n't try writing direct to the USA , they wo n't want to know . |
| 14 | The fact that the vast majority of these funds are in the names either of my wife or daughter casts a further question over my personal financial awareness , but that is not the point . |
| 15 | These parameters are at the limits of those allowed by treefall simulations . |
| 16 | Its funding and negotiations with authors are in the hands of a general editor at Layer IV , assisted by a small group of editors at Layer 111 , each working on projects that may take up to 18 months to complete . |
| 17 | Together with spiders , snakes are among the animals most feared by man , although most species are harmless . |
| 18 | ‘ Our pictures are in the newspapers . ’ |
| 19 | Economists yesterday disagreed on whether exports could maintain their strength at a time when many other industrial nations are in the doldrums . |
| 20 | If their shells are near the Julies , then it might be politic to shuffle them gradually to the other end . |
| 21 | ‘ If you choose to play sport at this level , friends and relationships are among the things you must sacrifice . ’ |
| 22 | These two books are about the ways in which two important groups of mammals — the ruminants and the marsupials — utilise different food resources . |
| 23 | Unbreakable cups and space shuttles were among the uses of new engineering materials cited by an enthusiastic Dr Ian McColm ( Bradford ) at the NE Region Education Division ( NERED ) teacher 's conference at Sheffield Polytechnic in November . |
| 24 | About 10 foreigners were among the victims of political violence in 1989 , with the result that foreign aid workers , archaeologists and tourists increasingly withdrew from or avoided rural areas . |
| 25 | On closer examination , however , it was immediately clear that Franco did not trust the Falangists in the areas most closely related to the exercise of real power ( i.e. to the control of the force of arms ) : all three defence Ministries were in the hands of military men well known for anti-Falangist political sympathies . |
| 26 | His idea that the Jews were to the Syrians what the Brahmans were to the Indians gained favour ( F.Gr.H. 715 F.3 . |
| 27 | Perhaps its last flowerings were in the events of May 1968 and in the punk revolution of the 1970s . |
| 28 | They did sometimes falter against lesser teams , and in particular had a habit of losing to Crystal Palace in Cup ties , but Northampton were still rank outsiders , especially as their League performances were in the doldrums . |
| 29 | The thrill of seeing Araminta in bathing dress , even in the distance , segregated as the gentlemen were from the ladies , made his heart race . |
| 30 | Most of the husbands were in the Forces and mine was at home and er any way er before I left two two different women had had babies and had abortions and died . |