Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 2 | Well shall I tell you that a certain member of the er medical staff , you know they 've got bollards where the staff can put their cars in a certain place , and one member of the staff came out and said , please remove your car it 's in the staff parking part , the person said , yes I even had to move the bollard . |
| 3 | Lord Keith at p 640 said , as a general rule it is in the public interest that confidences should be respected , and the encouragement of such respect may in itself constitute a sufficient ground for recognising and enforcing the obligation of confidence even where the confider can point to no specific detriment to himself . |
| 4 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 5 | Next morning off they go to the shops she goes turns all her lights off and ignition it 's in the car she starts the car up and off she trundles coming in along . |
| 6 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 7 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 8 | According to the handwritten inscription over the cutting it is from The Times , page three , on June 25th . |
| 9 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 10 | For this session the Celebration room has to be the sacred place it is at the integrated session . |
| 11 | It 's not cos you have n't got ta do it from the outside it 's from the inside . |
| 12 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 13 | And er , when I went to me I found out it in the post It was in the post , that I was picked . |
| 14 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 15 | At 206 on the Townsend index for social deprivation it is in the worst 5% of all electoral wards in Wales , chiefly because of high male unemployment . |
| 16 | And er I I would honestly put it in the , in the March period it 's on the second |
| 17 | It 's at a lovely venue it 's at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough . |
| 18 | When you say it cost me an arm and a leg , you 're thinking in word pictures if you like it 's a metaphor and er in the in the picture it 's by the er Long John by the Long John Silver figure having not only one leg , but also one arm as well . |
| 19 | Although the little hut at Trebyan was only a couple of hundred yards from the house and the pottery it was over the slope of the hill and hemmed in by gorse and hawthorn : a single large room with a verandah , built of lap boarding , raised on a brick base and set in the side of the hill . |
| 20 | And if Aherne has a criticism it is on the standards of school and club coaching . |
| 21 | He had a point or two to make about the present regime but if there was a hint of criticism it was of the gentlest sort . |
| 22 | The maxim on which I act at any moment is the personal rule which is guiding my behaviour — for Kant it is of the essence of voluntary action that there is such a maxim in every case . |
| 23 | As you will have guessed , my attitude towards him changed , so that when the frank speaking happened that day it was in the context of love and acceptance of him as a person . |
| 24 | As Lord Wilberforce pointed out , once evidence is brought out in court it is in the public domain ; unless the terms of relevant legislation or international agreements provide otherwise , there is nothing to prevent other interested persons or authorities acting upon the information thus made available . |
| 25 | As a very young child he had learned to read from picture books that showed children living in houses like these , in nurseries with sloping ceilings and toy yachts and teddy bears on the floor and solid Papas and gentle Mamas and a view through the window of rooftops and spires , and if there was a cloud across the moon it was in the shape of a sailing ship . |
| 26 | Presumably if they did modify their behaviour it was in the direction of approximating more closely to their own beliefs about what constitutes good teaching . |
| 27 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 28 | In one minute it was over the target area . |
| 29 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 30 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |