Example sentences of "to be [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could never again claim the right to be above the scrutiny of the media . |
| 2 | Journalists can not claim to be above the law , but what they can claim , in every country which takes free speech seriously , is a right to publish first , and take the risk of conviction afterwards . |
| 3 | The palynological analysis has not been able to identify the exact level of the unconformity but a thin sequence of coals believed to be above the unconformity generally demonstrate Westphalian C ages . |
| 4 | Kelly is at the head of the Football Association and he must be seen to be above the fray . |
| 5 | Four regions were found to be above the average : Scotland , 12.2 per cent ; the West Midlands 12 per cent ; the South-west 11.6 per cent ; and London 11.5 per cent . |
| 6 | In that year , according to a report from the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , of the 75,210 FIS recipients , only 15,000 , or 20 per cent , were estimated to be above the tax threshold when FIS was claimed in the previous year ( Treasury and Civil Service Committee , The Structure of Personal Income , Taxation and Income Support , House of Commons Paper 2021 , HMSO 1982 , table 11 , p. 15 ) . |
| 7 | Nitrogen dioxide levels were found to be above the guideline limits set by the EC at 13 out of 14 sites . |
| 8 | They argue that it is easy for someone to appear to be above the age of 17 and say laws should be introduced that place less onus on the newsagent , who may be an innocent victim . |
| 9 | According to traditions in Benin , casting was introduced there from Ife at a date estimated to be towards the end of the 14th century , about a century before the first European contact with Benin was made by sea . |
| 10 | What do you understand the attitude of Jesus to be towards the outcast and sinner as highlighted in the Lucan parables ? |
| 11 | Stocks are now believed to be below the level which would allow the predicted maximum yield of 175,000 tonnes per year . |
| 12 | If your agency is large enough for your personal account executive to be below the level of director of the company , he or she will probably be reporting to a management supervisor ( or some such title ) who will be a board director . |
| 13 | The pump would have to be below the surface of the water , how would I set this up ? |
| 14 | As a result unemployment , never before a serious issue in Russia , is a major concern and a large part of the population is now thought to be below the poverty line . |
| 15 | Oh , we do like to be beside the seaside . |
| 16 | Do you like to be beside the SEASIDE ? |
| 17 | Gwendolen did like to be beside the seaside . |
| 18 | How the Swindon fans and players love to be beside the seaside . |
| 19 | ‘ Whether or not I want you around seems to be beside the point , does n't it ? |
| 20 | Not least among these is that you have to be beyond the peak of the Laffer curve to begin with . |
| 21 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 22 | In January 1312 , as soon as he felt himself to be beyond the reach of the barons , the favourites were restored . |
| 23 | As a typical 20-storey building has a frequency of 0.5 hertz , and taller buildings have even lower frequencies , they are likely to be beyond the range of resonance . |
| 24 | Should the company do a thing which was outside the scope of the clause it was said to be beyond the company 's powers and ultra vires.At common law an ultra vires act was unlawful and without binding effect and a shareholder could restrain the company from undertaking ultra vires activities . |
| 25 | ( The fact that this might have been the case seems to be beyond the imagination of many even of liberal disposition in the church . ) |
| 26 | This is provided by the peripheral holes , P. These are some distance downstream from the nose so as to be beyond the region of pressure variation . |
| 27 | Even when the habit can not be broken , stopping a patient smoking temporarily — for example , preoperatively — will often to be to the patient 's and the hospital 's advantage . |
| 28 | Palestine was meant to be to the south , beyond Golan , on the West Bank , in Gaza , in Israel itself . |
| 29 | Buses departing from the present bus station to be to the south only . |
| 30 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |