Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sources said that the clashes had been between members of the fundamentalist Adl wal Ihsan ( " justice and charity " ) group and members of the leftist Kaiyidine group . |
| 2 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 3 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 4 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 5 | The only job vacancies in Angleside are for interviewers in the Social Security office , where the furniture is screwed to the floor in case the clients should try to assault the interviewers with it . |
| 6 | Both are for non-residents of the UK and the Channel Islands . |
| 7 | There are complex historical reasons for this , just as there are for differences in the amount of seasoning used in cooking . |
| 8 | Wednesdays are for jobs in the media . |
| 9 | Graveney explained that his comments in 1987 had been about events during the 1951 England tour of Pakistan . |
| 10 | Certainly , as far as we are concerned we are after cattle from the periphery of our patch , that is North Wales and Lancashire . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're like babes in the wood , but they 'll be all right . |
| 12 | The boys are the worst , especially if they 're in gangs like the ones here . |
| 13 | Also , the beginnings of chapters ( the titles ) are strange ; they are like summaries of the chapter , but without giving too much away . |
| 14 | But once let them lose confidence , and they are like children in the dark , reaching out for the grasp of a strong hand . |
| 15 | ‘ The states that make up the contemporary Middle East are like beads on the ‘ masbaha ’ , or worry beads , so common in the region . |
| 16 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 17 | We 've just been in discussions with the manufacturers and we actually but we 're hoping to get a discount on that in the near future so we 're hoping the cost of that will come down . |
| 18 | Some successful applications have been in studies of the spreading behaviour of oxides such as MoO 3 on Al 2 O 3 ) , the formation of monolayers by solid-solid wetting ( such as the spreading of MoO 3 , WO 3 , and V 2 O 5 on an Al 2 O 3 support ) , and the conditions for formation of surface polymolybdate , which is considered to be a precursor state for the active catalyst . |
| 19 | I 've been in hurricanes on the Florida Keys and there 's plenty of time to flirt around with fear . |
| 20 | Rates have fallen in all regions but the biggest drops have been in regions with the highest rates . |
| 21 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 22 | Efficiency — how successful has MDC been in terms of the physical regeneration of its area and in promoting private sector confidence and investment ? |
| 23 | It must have been within inches of the goal because when Swift collected the deflection , he was running along his own goal-line for dear life . |
| 24 | On average FIDOR handles around 10,000 enquiries every year , and of these , around 50% are from members of the general public . |
| 25 | The NCC also believes that when bailiffs seize goods from people who are in arrears with the Council Tax which will replace the Community Charge , they should be obliged to leave behind essential items such as clothing , bedding , furniture and cookers . |
| 26 | We are in negotiations with the local authority for planning permission , and we hope to obtain it for housing on some of that land . |
| 27 | Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation . |
| 28 | All of them are in polysyllables before the single nasal and before nasal clusters . |
| 29 | Such principles of professional practice , measured as they are in terms of the client 's perspective on the relationship , are , on the face of it , clear and straightforward . |
| 30 | We looked into this are in terms of the population here . |