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

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1 Yes , because er , the books are closed at the end of this month which is , you know , you 've got to give the auditors time to get the hall done before the A G M.
2 Some of the paths are closed during the shooting season but there is a right of way between the Torridon pass and Achnashellach , and it is a delight to follow .
3 This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years .
4 Still family-owned , most are closed to the public — so these photographs and vivid word profiles are all the more valuable .
5 Parts of the moorland — some would say too many — are used as military training areas and are closed to the public at certain times .
6 The three types of systems which are distinguished are isolated systems which have boundaries which are closed to the import and export of both mass and energy ; open systems where there is exchange of both matter and energy between the system and its environment , such as clouds ; and closed systems in which there is no exchange of matter between the system and its environment though there is in general an exchange of energy .
7 Some churches are closed against the will of local people to fit in with diocesan pastoral plans .
8 They are closed in the sense that the black child is cut off from the black community and all interaction takes place within a white social structure .
9 All streets going from Valga ( Estonia ) to Valka ( Latvia ) are closed by a 6ft fence and inhabitants have to show a pass at the three border posts in the city centre .
10 The Durlia has been closed since a fire last April .
11 Vietnam and China officially re-opened on April 1 the Friendship Pass border crossing between China 's Guangxi and Vietnam 's Lang Son provinces , which had been closed since the border war in 1979 .
12 The European Parliament voted by a large majority in January 1990 to freeze scientific co-operation between EC countries and Israel until universities on the West Bank , which had been closed since the beginning of the uprising , were reopened .
13 The museum has been closed since the robbery .
14 All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate .
15 Chief Superintendent Wycliffe 's driver pulled into the car park , which had been closed to the public , and joined a line of police vehicles .
16 The horses have been here for a year but up until yesterday the doors have been closed to the fans … yesterday they were opened up and thousands rolled up .
17 There were no non-sick ( workhouse ) beds at the Bedford Institution ; they had been closed at the beginning of the war .
18 What is the future of Hanley Pottery and the other factories which have been closed during the year ?
19 A ward at Guy 's Hospital in London has been closed following the deaths of two babies who may have been infected by a bug there .
20 But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down .
21 Richborough Castle had been closed for the day by the Department of the Environment .
22 ‘ It 's a security measure and it will continue for some time , ’ said a police spokesman , who revealed that the roads , one of which is part of the main Clogher to Omagh Road , had been closed under a Secretary of State 's Order .
23 Armley 's young offenders wing has been closed after a spate of suicides .
24 Three operating theatres at the Princess Margaret Hospital have been closed after an equipment failure , so to ease the impact on waiting lists , the air force has offered to help .
25 Had it been closed by the authorities ( I used that word , not ‘ the malais ’ ) ?
26 One of them was detonated on Aug. 14 about 50 km north of the city of León ; the line had already been closed by the railway authorities .
27 Yesterday the Torbay coroner said 14 out of 32 suicides this year had recently been released from the unit , which he has criticised on several occasions since it replaced more secure psychiatric hospitals that have been closed by the area health authority .
28 The last of the mines had been closed around the time of Tace 's birth and the entrances to the shafts had been closed or blocked by rockfalls .
29 and you all know the register is closed before Christmas , after February we close , the register will be closed at the end of February , no more new members then unless they live on the estate , we have to do that for the Christmas party , okay ?
30 Burnt Roof ( published by the Author , 107pp , illus , hbk , £11.70 inc p&p ) by The Reverend A A Upton is the story of St Laurence 's Church , Foleshill , which was the first church in Coventry to be closed as a result of Germany 's Blitz on Britain during 1940 .
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