Idiomatic Prepositions — The BEYOND-X Family (C2)

That the original treaty established the sole right of the bishopric to collect tolls at the bridge has been ___ since the early sixteenth-century commentaries first appeared in print.

In her closing speech to the jury, the prosecutor stressed that the burden was on the Crown to establish each of the three elements of the offence ___, and that nothing less would suffice in a case of this gravity.

It is, at this stage of the proceedings, very much ___ that all three of the original directors signed off on the corresponding board minute on the fifteenth of June; what remains in issue is the precise nature of the assurances they were given by management.

For more than four decades on the bench, Lord Justice Whitmore's personal conduct, both in court and out of it, was widely understood to be ___, and even his stoutest critics never suggested otherwise.

The view from the small chapel above the village, at sunset, over the lake and across to the far ridge of the mountains, was, all of the older visitors quietly agreed, simply ___.

The audacity of the original cabinet response — first denying any contact with the lobbyist, then publishing the very emails on which the denial would have to rest — is, even by recent standards, ___.

In the brief acknowledgement printed at the back of the new edition, the author confesses herself indebted ___ to the small group of librarians who first made the original archive accessible to outside scholars in the late 1980s.

When the news of the second loss reached the household on the Sunday morning, the family's collective grief was, as the parish priest later observed at the funeral, simply ___.

In a novel notable for the moral subtlety of its other portraits, the steward is the one character whose conduct toward the children eventually places him quite firmly ___.

It is one thing for a candidate to mock a rival's policy positions in the middle of a hard-fought campaign; it is quite another, and to most of the older members of the party manifestly ___, to mock his disabled brother.

By the time the report had circulated for the third time, the relationship between the two senior partners was, in the view of most of those still in the room, almost certainly ___.

A full discussion of the social effects of the post-pandemic shift to hybrid working is, regrettably, ___ the present paper, although the author hopes to return to the question on a future occasion.

A full reversal of the merger at this very late stage in the regulatory process is not, despite some of the more excitable headlines this morning, ___ possibility — although it would require the personal intervention of the secretary of state.

Sales of the debut novel, in the second year after its low-key initial publication, eventually exceeded the publisher's own forecasts ___, and a second printing of the hardback had to be hurriedly arranged.

Her professional competence in the technical side of the role is quite ___; some of the older members of the board, however, still have private reservations about her interpersonal style with junior staff.