Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 2 | Had he been in children 's homes ? |
| 3 | The results are from vendors ' official SPEC submissions . |
| 4 | Sex differences are also less in actuality than they are in teachers ' perceptions , as self-report schedules demonstrate , and clearly depend on who is defining what as ‘ deviant , ’ ‘ disruptive ’ or ‘ disaffected ’ — that is , what and whose rules of ‘ normality ’ are being infringed . |
| 5 | In all cases except FEDV this criterion is satisfied since all other variables are dated t - 1 or earlier , and we assume that such variables are in agents ' information sets . |
| 6 | All through tickets would be returned to the Railway Clearing House , although one or two are in collectors ' hands . |
| 7 | What can it be about women 's bodies , apart from their being so incredibly interesting ? |
| 8 | I sat on the shelf beside the steering-wheel , the shelf that was supposed to be for passengers ' parcels and luggage . |
| 9 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc warns that it expects net profit and turnover to be below analysts ' estimates for its first quarter ending April 3 : it expects operating results to be hurt by delays in releasing product enhancements for its RouterXchange 7000 series of routers to volume production , including support for IBM 's Token Ring network environment ; sales may be down up to 15% , and it may only break even or even worse . |
| 10 | Burlington , Massachusetts-based Bachman Information Systems Inc warns that it expects revenues for its third fiscal quarter to Aprch 31 to be below analysts ' expectations and that the operating loss for the quarter will also be greater than financial market expectations — it notes that some analysts had forecast revenues of about $10m . |
| 11 | And in case anyone thought that that was the end of the bad news , the company says it expects that its revenue for the first quarter to September 27 will be below analysts ' expectations and that it will incur a loss for the quarter . |
| 12 | ‘ It sounds like I 'm in millionaires ' row . |
| 13 | From 1 January 1994 underwriting agents will only be permitted to act as combined agents with Council consent if the agent has not more than 100 members , or it appears that the members ' agency function is sufficiently autonomous , or in the case of a combined agent whose members ' agency function is limited to run-off , it appears to be in members ' interests . |
| 14 | It is emphasised that the Council believes the arrangement to be in bodies ' best interests . |
| 15 | In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others . |
| 16 | He spoke with awe and fear in his voice , and as if he believed that only Minch herself among all of them could know and understand what might be in Men 's minds . |
| 17 | Children will only be in children 's wards and parents will be able to stay with a child throughout treatment . |
| 18 | They have been designed to be relevant to both small and large organisations in the public and private sectors , and take into account the variations that there will inevitably be in organisations ' approaches to developing their people . |
| 19 | It may not be to women 's advantage , but it is there , and it acknowledges the power , albeit negative , of women 's cycles of fertility . |
| 20 | If the S.M.O. was right , which he was bound to be , being a very experienced physician , then the crisis would come any time from the day after tomorrow — when I would be on nights ' off . |
| 21 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 22 | In this way , we can see how intimately connected teachers ' classroom strategies are to teachers ' cultures and careers , how what happens in the staffroom has implications for performance in the classroom also . |
| 23 | Erm so , and we will do that now but I mean it may transpire that the employer might say no to paid time off er for the people who are on days as , as well as |
| 24 | Road traffic accidents are among fire-fighters ' special services , which include rescuing people who are locked out or stuck in lifts , industrial accidents , people falling under trains or threatening to leap off buildings , and chemical leaks . |
| 25 | Stomachs were for tartes aux pomme and cailles aux raisins , not to be examined in laboratories . |
| 26 | In Islington 's famous Union Chapel , for example , the doors which opened into the auditorium had fixed to the wall beside them small boxes with a slit on the top ; these were for worshippers ' donations . |
| 27 | From a trade catalogue issued by Turner of Farringdon Street , London , in 1838 we get an overview of the types of coffin used at that time : thirty-three are described , of which fourteen styles were for children 's coffins only . |
| 28 | Legislation was seen as the key to securing reforms that were in women 's interests . |
| 29 | What power he had , what admiration he extorted , what looks there were in girls ' eyes . |
| 30 | The fact that at least half of the children who waited in long-term care were in children 's homes became the more powerful message . |