Example sentences of "be [prep] the [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 2 | And th , think they 're having a real problem in Birmingham as well the they 're , trying to get rid of them and they 're down the sewers all the time trying to get rid of the bloody things ! |
| 3 | The customs accounts there for the decade 1450–60 show that the average annual export of broadcloths , by both denizens and aliens , was a third lower than it had been in the years 1440–50 ( 94 , pp.334–5 ) . ’ |
| 4 | That will substantially help those who are in the circumstances that the hon. Gentleman mentions . |
| 5 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 6 | Now we are in the years 1911 — 1920 , and Stravinsky , who was then in the throes of The Rite of Spring , found time , too , for his Two Poems of Balmont and the Three Japanese Lyrics . |
| 7 | ‘ Weeks has been before the magistrates this morning and has been discharged without a stain on his character . |
| 8 | I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the . |
| 9 | Frank is still just 21 and why a very talented young player ca n't be in the clubs future plans i ca n't understand … |
| 10 | Special Branch , which works closely with MI5 , has its own computer system which keeps records on many millions of people none of whom have committed any offence ( if they had they would be on the Police National Computer ) split into 27 different groups such as ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ controversial ’ and ‘ subversive ’ . |
| 11 | They 'll be over the Legions twelve o'clock . |
| 12 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him considerable work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or contractor with the company in administration , but all of these will be among the factors relevant to be taken into consideration ( post , pp. 862H — 863A , 864C ) . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 14 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 15 | Reductions in food , fashion and home furnishings are on the cards this autumn . |
| 16 | I 've been on the railways all my life , eh ? ’ |
| 17 | If evidence and procedure are among the subjects available to you at the University , you should either include them in your course or , at least , attend the lectures as an extra . |
| 18 | On the economic front , changes in the economy and labour needs since the 1970s have been among the factors encouraging modification of this rigid system . |
| 19 | We were on the greens fine , but we could n't get off them . |
| 20 | He realized some of his best friends were among the men dead on the ground . |
| 21 | ‘ Like you were at the tables last night and the night before that ? ’ |
| 22 | Mr. Nicholas Bennett : Does my right Hon. Friend agree that one of the major ways in which unemployment has been reduced in Wales is through the Governments regional policy of re-locating Civil Service and other Government agency jobs to the regions and Wales ? |
| 23 | The most dramatic shift is between the years 1971 and 1978 . |
| 24 | We ’ ve a Central South girl to follow she 's Lynn Gibson from Oxford who 's off the blocks first in our action round-up |
| 25 | So what 's behind the companies dramatic success story … |
| 26 | The cashier then initiates a sequence of automated steps to check a cardholder database to determine whether the card is legitimate ( i.e. not stolen ) and the amount of the charge is within the cardholders available credit limit . |
| 27 | It 's in the minutes last time . |
| 28 | And she 's got another two weeks off now , until she goes into schools and then she 's in the schools full-time , but even so , she wo n't have , she did n't have exams . |
| 29 | I worked at Butlin 's in the kitchens first . |
| 30 | If the child has the capacity to understand what is in the documents this must be explained to him . |