Example sentences of "to be [prep] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He heard evidence from the newspaper which undermined the applicant 's evidence , and decided that there was not " a case so clear as to be beyond argument a case to answer " .
2 The point of Benjamin 's article seems to be to decentre the political , or at least to subject it to test , to remove those making claims for their political correctness from their habitual position of judge and jury : such that the art can , in principle , sort out the politics , and not just vice versa .
3 Entitled Challenge , it ‘ will be progressive in the sense that it understands Christian faith to be of necessity a commitment to the cause of all who are oppressed , discriminated against or unjustly treated . ’
4 In the light of the preceding discussion it is necessary to consider the methodology of comparative industrial relations more fully since it is clear that to be of value the studies need to be appropriately designed and the cases to be compared require careful selection .
5 If the pool is to be of concrete a similar construction in that material can be made .
6 It 's going to be on board a small boat called The Sandhopper .
7 Cash Asmussen is likely to be on board the unbeaten colt .
8 Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August .
9 For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time .
10 She 'd like to be on hand the moment they came out of the dark room .
11 I actually expected her to be at home a lot more often cos it 's o , it 's a lot quicker for her to ge , to get from Blackheath to wha to er Ca Camberwell than it is to get back here .
12 Yet it has influenced both Realism and Idealism , while seeming to commentators ( including ourselves ) to be at heart a stricter version of Realism itself .
13 The agreement is therefore likely to be in substance a secured borrowing .
14 Meikle [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 801 , where it had been made clear that prosecutors are fully entitled to bring any number of offences against a single defendant at different times and so cause to be in existence a number of custody time limits not coinciding wholly with one another .
15 ‘ Already there seems to me to be in existence a new kind of human being who is living ahead of the meaning of our time , knowing only that meaning has to be lived before it can be known . ’
16 It could be argued , however , that if a PhD really is expected to be in part a contribution to knowledge , then this factor should be built into the system , so that the information gathered in such a costly fashion should be published in some form before completion , as is expected in some other European countries , such as Germany and the Netherlands .
17 It could be argued , however , that if a Ph D really is expected to be in part a contribution to knowledge , then this factor should be built into the system , so that the information gathered in such a costly fashion should be published in some form before completion , as is expected in some other European countries , such as Germany and the Netherlands .
18 I do n't know what anyone else says , you 've only got to be in prison a week — no , a day — and all you want when you get out is revenge , to go and get drunk and do something really stupid like break a shop window or something .
19 They make it very difficult for British firms to make acquisitions , especially hostile bids , and show the ‘ single market ’ to be in reality a very one-sided affair , pivoted far too much against British interests .
20 The employers utilised what appears to be in practice a fairly standard procedure intended to minimise the risk of facing unfair dismissal proceedings with regard to both procedural fairness and the substantive reasonableness of any resulting dismissals of ‘ refuseniks ’ .
21 When it also rapidly became clear , following the 1972 White Paper , Education : A Framework for Expansion , that there was to be in fact a massive reduction in teacher education and an opportunity to diversify to fill the gaps created , the CNAA began to be faced with proposals for degrees in other subjects , often combined or modularized degrees , and often with an attempt to build both a BA and BEd degree on top of a two-year Diploma .
22 The Liberal Democratic Party was recognized to be in fact an ultra-nationalist formation .
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