Example sentences of "to be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to tell his constituents that with London 's share of world trade in financial services is increasing and is now at twenty seven percent that the financial services sector round the U K four point three billion , that those employees that he refers to are in fact in an industry which even if it is redistributing employment it 's nevertheless growing . |
| 2 | The whole life cycle may be completed endogenously and transmission , at least in the cat , is thought to be via ingestion of vomit containing the L3 . |
| 3 | Children whose teachers rated their ability as average tended to spend less time on work and routine activities and more time distracted or awaiting attention than either those who were thought to be above average in ability or those who were rated as below average . |
| 4 | Some sites have radiation levels higher than the general background in the area , but there is a tendency for Cornish circles to be below background . |
| 5 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 6 | The position appears to be beyond question as a result of the decision of the House of Lords in Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , and in cases covered by the UCTA 1977 , s9 makes clear that a clause may be judged reasonable , and enforceable , even though the contract has been terminated either by the breach , or by the innocent party in response to the breach . |
| 7 | In legal procedures personal and family relations have been deemed to be beyond law 's limits . |
| 8 | Nor indeed did Barth pretend to be beyond criticism , though he was not slow to point out where he thought his critics had misunderstood or misrepresented his views . |
| 9 | She wanted the world to go away and let her live with her lover in a secret palace , give herself over to his embrace , to be beyond responsibility and care and hard work and sanity . |
| 10 | Conspiracy theorists do not address their argument to the enemies identified by the theory , for they are deemed to be beyond argument . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | She might have done it in private — she is fun and without question , a little flirtatious — — but Diana had understood from the start that her public image had to be beyond reproach , and it always had been . |
| 13 | There is now a momentum which seems to be beyond control . |
| 14 | When it is suggested to him that it may be necessary and unavoidable to kill those who oppress mankind in the same way as it is necessary and unavoidable to hill a homicidal lunatic who threatens society , his reply is that no man is so evil as to be beyond redemption , and no man so perfect as to be justified in killing these whom he considers to be evil . |
| 15 | In short , a mere breakdown in a working relationship does not in itself justify dismissal unless , after a reasonable attempt to effect a reconciliation , it is found to be beyond remedy . |
| 16 | The choice of reference , whether it is to be to expert or arbitrator , is in any event usually made at the time of the original contract which precedes the time when the parties know whether they have an " issue to settle " or a " formulated dispute " , and they will be obliged to use whatever procedure was stipulated , unless they make some fresh agreement . |
| 17 | Slow start but in the end realises ambition to be to blaxpoitation movies what Airplane was to disaster movies . |
| 18 | And it would be helpful for councillor I would say that I know that there are a third of our members and from the program committees for capital expenditure which I suspect is going to be to excess of the five hundred thousand pounds per year which we actually have . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you have such an inflated idea of your own sex appeal you think you can grab any woman who happens to be to hand ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lighting columns now have to be to regulation safety standards , and it is hoped that the new lights chosen will be complementary to the street . |
| 22 | To be over liquid means that profit opportunities are being passed up . |
| 23 | Darwin , with his inherited money , doing little experiments in his garden and studying what we would call ecology , seemed rather like a survival from the eighteenth century : the new way to end arguments about animals seemed to be through chemistry . |
| 24 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 25 | The US Navy , despite the episode involving the Stark and another in which the USS Vincennes , believing herself to be under air attack , released the missile that shot down an Iran Air Airbus , had the satisfaction of catching an Iranian makeshift mine-layer , the Iran Ajr , with its mines on board , and confiscated both ship and cargo . |
| 26 | Some achieved increased personal awareness through self-examination ; others felt their values to be under attack . |
| 27 | The aria ‘ He was despised ’ can be quite a drag in the wrong hands , but she succeeds in making it one of the highpoints of the Oratorio , even though she appears to be under attack from a boa constrictor half way through . |
| 28 | If it feels pain , it considers itself to be under attack . |
| 29 | The general tenor of Humani Generis was a reaffirmation of a whole string of Catholic doctrines that Pius or his advisers believed to be under attack , including the existence of angels , transubstantiation , the value of Thomism as the Church 's philosophy , and the centrality of tradition . |
| 30 | A problem arises when a person makes a mistake about the circumstances by which he is confronted and supposes himself to be under attack when in truth he is not . |