Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 2 | Rain said : ‘ You were told by Edouard that I had been tricked into going to the museum . |
| 3 | Such a committee might also help to satisfy those who are given to complaining about the choice of hymns . |
| 4 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 5 | In Canada , LASMO 's shares are listed for trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange under the trading symbol LSO . |
| 6 | ‘ Ever since I was a little boy , I 've been fascinated by acting in the cinema . |
| 7 | This applies to all soundtracks whether made for professional or non-profit amateur use even if these are limited to showing in the home . |
| 8 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 9 | It has been developed by responding to the needs of 13,000 customers over 11 years . |
| 10 | We are ‘ indoctrinated ’ into believing in the value of parliamentary democracy just as we are indoctrinated into believing in the merits of this or that soap powder . |
| 11 | And what about the scent of the bracken , the feel of the grassy bank we 're sitting on — to say nothing of those people over there who , like ourselves , are resting before climbing to the top ? ’ |
| 12 | The case has now been listed for hearing before the Commissioners . |
| 13 | As soon as Honor was old enough she had been dragooned into helping with the housework , preparing meals if cook were ill , as well as acting as her mother 's companion . |
| 14 | Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area . |
| 15 | Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area . |
| 16 | Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area . |
| 17 | Beneath the shaft , there 's evidence of pollutants coming into contact underground streams , and cavers have now been forbidden from potholing near the area . |
| 18 | All information , matters and circumstances relating to the Business which are or would on reasonable enquiry be known to the Vendor and which are material to be known by a purchaser for value of the Business have been disclosed in writing to the Purchaser . |
| 19 | He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate . |
| 20 | However powerful or disruptive other actors become , the theoretical framework is still set by what states decide about guidelines or , in a systems perspective , what states are pressured into deciding by the demands of the system . |
| 21 | Questions not dealt with on the floor of the House are answered in writing by the Minister and the answers published in Hansard . |
| 22 | However , US relief workers who flew into Tehran on June 25 with medical supplies and food were reported to have been prevented from going to the affected provinces , while Kayhan , one of Iran 's largest-circulation newspapers , accused the USA of being mean with its aid and of hoping to reap diplomatic benefits by offering " one or two million dollars " . |
| 23 | Mr Howell said no legal opinion had been sought before entering into the transactions , although a council memo suggested that visits should be made to other local authorities . |
| 24 | The lines are positioned by referring to the CE or balance point of the rig . |
| 25 | Equally flawed is the idea that it is possible to legitimate the power of corporate managers by structuring the internal division of power in the company so that the managers are prevented from deviating from the narrow path of profit-maximization . |
| 26 | Hanging accessories , known as ‘ D ’ rings , are best fixed to the hardboard with rivets , which are secured by pushing through the ring and then through a hole made in the hardboard , before being split open with a hammer . |
| 27 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 28 | In time of war , persons for the time being residing or doing business in an enemy country , whatever their nationality or domicile , are disabled from suing in the English Courts ; but , if sued here , they will so far as possible be given an opportunity of defending themselves . |
| 29 | Auntie and friend had been saved by lying in the gutter outside with an eiderdown over their heads . |
| 30 | We might argue , albeit anachronistically , that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge . |