Example sentences of "[was/were] missing [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember visiting the home of a radio producer , and all the doors were missing except the front and back ones ! |
| 2 | ‘ He was one of the students who rented the Pitt house in Church Street , they were missing for a while . |
| 3 | one great sporting event that is changing is the Le mans 24 hour race … many of the great names were missing over the weekend … but thankfully one lives … |
| 4 | At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more were missing in the Romanian town of Focsani , 160 km north-east of Bucharest , after an earthquake struck on May 30 . |
| 5 | But Labour 's Alan Milburn said the NHS was suffering because of Tory cutbacks and essential services were missing in the town . |
| 6 | Two pairs of hands were missing from the dutiful applause that greeted his speech . |
| 7 | One or two books were missing from the study shelves ; perhaps guests had simply borrowed them and taken them to their rooms . |
| 8 | although many famous names were missing from the register : notably Moffatt , Nadin , Legrand ( already sure of retaining his crown and recovering from a knee operation ) , Rabatou , Godoffe , Cortijo and Edlinger . |
| 9 | It claimed that not 325 objects but 463 objects were missing from the museum . |
| 10 | On 3 August 1989 officers pursuing inquiries on behalf of the P.C.A. also visited Warwick Crown Court and found that the original interview notes regarding the appellant 's case were missing from the court file . |
| 11 | If you were missing from the house overnight , I would be worried . |
| 12 | ‘ And when you discovered Nicola and David Parkin were missing from the party , you did n't go down to the office again ? ’ |
| 13 | The green paperweight and the blue glass cat were missing from the chest-top . |
| 14 | On Boxing Day , three actors were missing from the matinée performance of The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| 15 | Large sums of money were missing from the business , and while his colleagues now realised that her father was ill — and obviously had n't deliberately intended to commit any kind of fraud — nevertheless , the money had had to be replaced as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | But the £2,500 suite and other items were missing from the load delivered in January . |
| 17 | Both were missing from the side which won 4-2 at Colchester United on Friday evening and the Robins ' boss has to decide whether to stick with the makeshift back four which performed so well at Layer Road . |
| 18 | In my class four pupils were missing after the holidays . |
| 19 | Alan come to me yesterday afternoon , er and they said the rubber suckers was missing of the end of the sucker spouts that picks the bag up . |
| 20 | He had n't had to suffer as much as her — I do n't so much mean that , like fishes , his pain threshold was higher than a human being 's ( although I do n't doubt that was the case ) as that he 'd been aware that his son was missing for a shorter period than his wife . |
| 21 | Maybe it 'll lead him to explain that he latched on to lust because something was missing for the moment in your relationship . |
| 22 | When she was missing on the set , she could always be found in the stars ' dressing-rooms . |
| 23 | It took a fall at thirty-five miles an hour , a night in Addenbrooke 's Hospital in Cambridge , and a broken collarbone to remind Kelly of the life she was missing as a professional jockey . |
| 24 | Damn it all , we did n't even notice Everett was missing until a porter tripped over him in the quad , so anything 's theoretically possible . |
| 25 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 26 | She liked the nights in the country better ; the mixed smells of the town contained more human corruption : the health of animal dung 's pungency was missing in the ammoniac whiffs from the town culvert , and the touch of the air was never quite as lively as in the yard . |
| 27 | That nagging doubt , the feeling that something was missing in the woman she was supposed to be . |
| 28 | One might suggest then that the ‘ major project ’ Holdaway recognized was missing from the college inventory is still to come ! |
| 29 | It was also necessary to fabricate and fit a new rotating cowl to replace the louvred terminal which was missing from the apex of the south-east roundel . |
| 30 | Indeed , only one voice was missing from the chorus . |