Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am obliged to smell what he smells , the baby powder , the smell of his nails before the fire spits them out-to be caught in the dish and then agonizingly reapplied to his thrilled fingertips . |
| 2 | All you really know about general , about the general election is that it 's got ta be held before the end of parliament 's statutory life of five years . |
| 3 | The baggage area behind that is quite spacious , although the small baggage door is only just big enough to allow a flight size case through , which means anything larger needs to be manhandled over the seats . |
| 4 | Students will need to be piloted through the maze of attainment targets , and in the fourth and fifth years particularly they will need advice on which core and foundation subjects to follow to GCSE and which to follow for what the Act coyly describes as ‘ a reasonable time ’ . |
| 5 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 6 | I am sure that they had a twofold motivation : reluctance to be burdened with a teenager who was n't earning a wage , and the consideration of how much he meant to Cis . |
| 7 | People will then not have to be burdened with the labels of friction and division . |
| 8 | A raffle organised by the Triangle Community Association of Grove Hill , Middlesbrough , raised more than £2,256 to be split between the TCA and South Cleveland Hospital 's appeal for a lithotripter machine to break up kidney stones . |
| 9 | A second factor which I 'd like to raise , and please stop me , sir , if I 'm not playing your ground rules here , is to get back to the original point made by Mr Davis , as to how this figure is going to be split between the districts , I think it 's absolutely essential that this figure is split between the districts , and it may well be , if you decide , sir , to recommend in favour of the new settlement that you may have to leave that as a floating figure to go around the districts , at the moment it is not . |
| 10 | There was even a touch of irony in the fact that the proceeds from the gala evening given at Covent Garden by the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre were to be split between the Mariinsky itself and the Royal Opera House Trust . |
| 11 | Langhorne was it just then , and the race was won by one A. J. Foyt , not by Mario , who came in ninth in his Windmill Truckers Special : for $637 , to be split with the owners , and with hands like hamburgers . |
| 12 | The four-party Swedish coalition is likely to be split on the issue , with Environment Minister and Centre Party leader Olof Johansson under strong pressure to drop the project . |
| 13 | VTAM , the Virtual Telecommunications Access Method , is the first application to be split from the network , and with the new 3.4.2 release , it can now run natively over TCP/IP , and comes with support for OS/2-based machines too . |
| 14 | And tomorrow night we 'll be hearing reactions to the possibility of VAT being added to books and newspapers , another area thought likely to be targetted by the Chancellor . |
| 15 | The average ranking of the correct word is only three , and a number of words ( between 5 and 25 ) have to be hypothesized in the hope of including the correct word . |
| 16 | Why it 's cool to be gone with the wind . |
| 17 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 18 | It occurred to Lyn — fleetingly , to be gone in a moment that most men would have broken such a thing more gently to their wives . |
| 19 | She wanted to be gone before the police arrived and Ayling did not press her with convincing enthusiasm . |
| 20 | The company will be the largest freight carrier to be based at the Speke airport . |
| 21 | The unit is likely to be based at the Bryn-y-Neuadd hospital in Llanfairfeshan , near Bangor . |
| 22 | This is not an argument against abortion , but the legitimacy of this procedure needs to be based on a concept other than that a woman may choose how she wishes to use her body . |
| 23 | Rumours got around that a collector in Paris had one in a bank vault in the 1940s ; but this story was recently investigated , and was found to be based on a misunderstanding . |
| 24 | So this account seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what Labov 's work has been about . |
| 25 | The structure plans tended to be based on a survey — analysis — plan approach which required a rather determinist view of the issues which they examined . ’ |
| 26 | No battleships were to be built for 10 years ; and the total tonnage of naval ships was to be based on a ratio of 5-5-3 for the USA , Great Britain and Japan , and 1.7 for each of the others . |
| 27 | When I met my husband , I knew he was the one for me , and I knew that I would have to be honest if our marriage was n't to be based on a lie . |
| 28 | These were to be based on a number of polytechnics and other further education establishments which already possessed strong departments of management and in some cases the designation related to a single establishment and in others to a grouping of two or more colleges . |
| 29 | As far as the institutional structure was concerned , the report called for a rationalization of the present pattern to be based on a network of centres in each region , including an important role for the colleges of education ( technical ) , particularly in developing pilot schemes for professional tutors , of whom there should be at least one in every further education college . |
| 30 | These were to be based on a descriptor with learning outcomes and performance criteria , would be internally assessed , and would be of nominal 40-hour length — just like SCOTVEC modules . |