Example sentences of "[pron] be closed [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three types of systems which are distinguished are isolated systems which have boundaries which are closed to the import and export of both mass and energy ; open systems where there is exchange of both matter and energy between the system and its environment , such as clouds ; and closed systems in which there is no exchange of matter between the system and its environment though there is in general an exchange of energy . |
| 2 | He said about 30 files in the Public Records Office , including some which were closed to the public , were examined . |
| 3 | After the Conflagration ( his Monument being broken ) somebody made a little hole towards the upper edge of his Coffin , which was closed like the coffin of a Pye and was full of a Liquour which conserved the body . |
| 4 | They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure . |
| 5 | Oh I thought they were closed on a Monday . |
| 6 | Had it been closed by the authorities ( I used that word , not ‘ the malais ’ ) ? |
| 7 | The modern version we are using has the same hole , and our wood-burning stove has a pipe that goes through it , while the rest of it is closed with a cowl that is a bitch to fix . |
| 8 | At the end of the novel it is closed to the public , and most of its stately rooms are shut up : ‘ the light of the drawing-room seems gradually contracting and dwindling until it shall be no more ’ . |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia is going ahead with a $50 million programme to improve the safety of its controversial V-1 unit at Jaslovske Bohunice plant , despite Austrian requests that it be closed on the grounds that its proximity to the border posed a threat to Austrian citizens . |
| 10 | It was closed as a running-shed between 1934 and 1940 , but was then in daily use until the arrival of the last North Station car — 290 — on 27 October 1963 . |
| 11 | South Oxfordshire District Council has reopened its Ladygrove Park after it was closed for a cleaning up operation ; the park was closed some weeks ago after gypsies staying there left it full of litter . |