Example sentences of "[det] be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAYOUTS of up to £1 million each are on the way for survivors of the M1 air crash . |
| 2 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 3 | Quite a few are from the madrigal group , or people Tom 's got to know through it . ’ |
| 4 | Many of the traditional monopolies applicable in the legal profession are under attack and some are on the point of disappearing . |
| 5 | Ann says someone will tell us when she comes back , some are with the church cos I know there is a service on today and them ones downstairs from but Ann says they 're going away just later on so there 's no point in going down , mm , now is there ? |
| 6 | Rulers of the oil-rich Trucial States in the Middle East have access to almost unbelievable wealth , and some are in the process of transforming patches of desert into architectural playgrounds . |
| 7 | Could this be at the end of the vacuum-packed salami syndrome ? ’ |
| 8 | It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot . |
| 9 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 10 | Remember we are concerned eventually to account for the repeatable contribution constituents make to the significance of signals involving them ; this being of the essence when syntax is recursive , or creative . |
| 11 | As there is only one fixing point , this being on the base , it would have had to have been fastened to a stable item , such as furniture . |
| 12 | Formerly , the villagers used to eat turtle eggs and flesh , despite this being against the law . |
| 13 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 14 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 15 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 16 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 17 | Some of the organisations studied had upgraded the status of large numbers of their temporary workers for this reason in the past , some were in the process of doing so . |
| 18 | Half of the sentences were of the form B because A ( as in the above example ) , and half were of the form Because A , B ( e.g. , Because the sun started to shine , the snowman started to melt ) . |
| 19 | This is to the benefit of both parties . |
| 20 | No , the order seems to be fairly haphazard — and I feel that this is to the benefit of the patient . |
| 21 | Yeah , I just er , like to , just to welcome the ongoing commitment to the Treasurers Department , to keep down the er , charges to the public service units through C E C. Obviously this is to the benefit , and gives them the , a greater chance of succeeding out there , in what is a difficult market place . |
| 22 | Although in this case the seller will find it hard to argue with the buyer 's concerns , where the seller himself provides the items ( even if he charges the buyer directly or indirectly for their provision ) he may well wish to keep ownership himself , either to tie the buyer to him for future orders , or to enable him to use the items for sales to third parties , even if this is to the buyer 's detriment , and against his consent . |
| 23 | Nevertheless their aim was the expression of the experience of a knowledge which integrates human faculties , not a scholastic dissection of its separate parts , important though this is to the history of thought . |
| 24 | What you want to do er what you want after that , including marrying again is a separate matter , his primary responsibility and I 'm sure he would agree with this is to the wellbeing of those children |
| 25 | This is to the extent of the amount repaid . |
| 26 | This is to the effect that General Loehr prefers to surrender his forces to an Anglo-American command and not to Marshal Tito or Russian command in order to " save members of Croat armed forces and his own troops from Tito and the Bolsheviks " " On 7 May this appeal had been firmly rejected . |
| 27 | Overall during last year , this is to the end of , of November actually because fin figures are n't available for the end of the year , the reduction was four point nine percent , which compares with four point three percent in the previous year , so not only are they still going down , they 're actually going down slightly more than they were in the previous year and that must be encouraging . |
| 28 | This is to the rent is ? |
| 29 | It will be aware of its master , in that it hears and smells him , and of its own exertions , in that it is awake , but it will not be aware that it recognises him , for this is of the order of tomorrow 's delayed return — a linguistic belief of which dumb brutes are incapable . |
| 30 | This is of the form A-BC ( which would be meaningless at levels of more general affinity , and is excluded by the homogeneity of style at the unitary level ) , where some of the mosaicists responsible for mosaic A worked on B , and some of the mosaicists responsible for B worked on 6 , but where few mosaicists worked on both A and C. At each step in such a " distributed relationship " some craftsmen are " lost " . |