Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also seems inescapable that , however much conscious experience depends on the orderly biochemical working of the body , consciousness is itself outside the ordinary material concepts of matter and energy . |
| 2 | Or , for that matter , what good is it to the teacher who has to keep up with the ins and outs of teaching reading and who needs to diagnose the difficulties of Jason , Amil and Della and then advise a colleague on how to help them ? |
| 3 | The question whether a customer knowing of the facts would have taken part in the fraud is one for the jury . |
| 4 | So what chapter is it at the top ? |
| 5 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 7 | With what a masterly skill is everyone of the varying tints displayed . |
| 8 | What might otherwise be a dry debate on science policy has raised a hue and cry among the American public , for the issue is which of the 70000 chemicals on the market may cause cancer . |
| 9 | One approach to the relationship between bureaucracy and class is to say that the bureaucratic stratum is itself in the process of becoming a class in almost every sense of the word , and the dominant class at that . |
| 10 | This is a superficially attractive theory , but the proposed phoneme is nothing like the other phonemes we have identified up to this point — putting it simply , it does n't have any sound . |
| 11 | I think that its , its choice that 's something we have n't sort of looked at tonight , I think its the important er factor in a fact that we 've got an audience here with a large representative er percentage of er access to a car and certainly erm I working in the transport field in West Central Scotland , er that is not the case , in Glasgow where the car ownership is something in the order of seventy per cent of the population do not have access to a car or do not have access in a household , we , you are then talking , you have to look very , very seriously at what public transport must provide in order to meet just day , day to day activities and I think that this choice aspect is something that is absolutely vital as the lady in front says . |
| 12 | A key question is which of the existing ITV companies will win back their contracts — and what happens to their programmes if they do n't ? |
| 13 | If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Members of the community are themselves in the course of events engaged in a great deal of informal social control , ’ he said . |
| 15 | She has a hard act to follow ; it is never enviable to be the successor of one very powerful founder director be it in the gallery sector or in commerce . |
| 16 | Is it really self-evident that the manufacture of napalm to be used in war is something for the benefit of the public ? |
| 17 | I have n't quite finished wallpapering , I do n't think that 's gon na make a lot of difference is it to the . |
| 18 | There the post is something on the erratic side , which explains the delay . |
| 19 | A craftsman is nothing without the exercise of his craft . |
| 20 | Your safety , and your security and my safety and security in life does not depend on how pleasant my ways are and how pleasant my paths are how much I manage to amass , and how I can overcome all the little difficulties and problems and steer clear of the big ones the security and safety of my life , now and in eternity , security is there in the boat and lying with him . |
| 21 | What business is it of the State if someone now wishes to be known as a woman , where previously she was considered a man ? |
| 22 | ‘ Greed is everything in the City . ’ |
| 23 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 24 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 25 | What the , the links between the manifest and the latent content are what in the technical jargon of psychoanalysis we would call free associations . |
| 26 | The best person is someone with the following qualities : |
| 27 | The other is ourselves as the stranger . |
| 28 | Er members will recall that the potential savings that might from the original was something in the order of eight to nine hundred thousand pounds and of course the majority of those er present the saving will be policy will be consideration . |
| 29 | Ignoring his dig , she decided that if the inside was anything like the outside she could bear to wait . |
| 30 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |