Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From my viewpoint , major upgrades have to be worth the few pounds it might cost . |
| 2 | This question was supposed to be about the Baltic states , but as we have become hooked on gold , I think that we had better have the answer . |
| 3 | We all hope that they will eventually be as the recommended ones . |
| 4 | The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities . |
| 5 | As noted above , there is some indication of the development of a rebuttable presumption that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts . |
| 6 | Yet , the very thesis that all questions of law should be for the ordinary courts itself fashions the result that the court believes to be correct . |
| 7 | The deposits can be for the following terms : overnight , 1 week , or 1,2,3,4,5,6,9 or 12 months . |
| 8 | ( After the initial period future bills will be for the normal 13-weeks . ) |
| 9 | It will be for the privatised companies in due course to establish pensions arrangements for their employees . |
| 10 | The mode of action of the toxin appears to be for the non-conserved sequences in Domain II to bind specifically to a glycoprotein on the target insect 's gut membrane . |
| 11 | It should then be for the official aircraft accident investigating authority to establish the cause of the accident and to make recommendations for avoiding similar accidents in the future , and it should be for the civil courts to decide who is liable to pay damages and to whom . |
| 12 | When the subsidiaries are transferred to the private sector it will be for the new companies to make pension arrangements for employees . |
| 13 | Clearly the most drastic punishment for a firm that has reneged on the collusive agreement would be for the other firms to force it to its security level , either forever or for some specified number of time periods . |
| 14 | In practice the Crown would now be unlikely to dismiss a judge without an Address , and it would be for the two Houses to decide whether the misbehaviour justified dismissal . |
| 15 | The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances . |
| 16 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 17 | Payment of the mortgage allowance will be through the normal salaries system on a monthly/four-weekly basis and will be non-taxable , provided that the Inland Revenue is satisfied that the payments made are reasonable in amount . |
| 18 | But it was not to be despite the tremendous efforts of players like Paudi Lynch , Pat Claffey , Ian Delamere , Paul Neary , Justin Couch , Enda Moynihan , Dermot Desmond and the rest . |
| 19 | Mary paused , some distance from the little settlement of Buttermere , and steadied herself inside this deeply protected , world 's end valley , the home as might be of the hidden enchantments of fairy tales as Mr Fenton had said . |
| 20 | Owls hooted and bats fluttered , and the pirates were glad to be past the eerie gravestones and the gloomy prison door . |
| 21 | Because we can invest your money tax-free and your return is paid to you tax-free , your investment has the potential to be amongst the highest performers . |
| 22 | The brothers are reputed to be amongst the richest men in France and Lagerfeld , born into money , waxes richer by the year . |
| 23 | One imagines , probably quite wrongly , that the moon must be like the wilder areas of Sutherland . |
| 24 | It 'll be like the old days . ’ |
| 25 | But both Miliband and Poulantzas were unprepared to accept that what came out of this conflict over , and within , the state would be against the long-term interests of the ruling class . |
| 26 | In other cases of non-compulsory transfer the parties will probably still be under the same constraints about fixing the price . |
| 27 | On present evidence , that would be welcome : a reunited Germany with Mr Kohl as its first chancellor is likely to be more prosperous , and stabler , than it would be under the Social Democrats . |
| 28 | So , too , will it be with the new technologies … |
| 29 | Sorry right hand fretting , has to be with the three fingers . |
| 30 | erm Sadly it wo n't be with the same riders we had last year , but the riders we 've brought in I 'm sure will erm , under the forty points erm give us a good team . |