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

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1 Jacob , increasingly since he commenced going to university , might be missing for the rest of the day ; Joshua , particularly in the summer , would go out for long walks in the country , following , he said , the course of some meshuggeneh game in which young men threw an iron ball along the road and ran after it — could there be such a game ?
2 At least 200 people were believed to be missing after a mudslide on Feb. 27 , 1990 , buried the village of San Miguel de Río Mayo in the northern jungle , 800 km north of Lima , following heavy rains .
3 Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket .
4 Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time .
5 The omission of the verb gives an immediacy which would be missing from a construction such as It is a virgin scene ( where the present tense is a direct attempt to make a coding time and content time the same ) .
6 England defeated Poland 1-0 , Roger Hunt the goalscorer and the tenacious manner of that victory persuaded us that the possibilities were immense ; of that team , only Jimmy Greaves would be missing from the World Cup Final .
7 But I have an inkling which sport may be missing from the Olympiad of the future .
8 ‘ People ask me if it 's embarrassing to be missing from the Rangers side when England is focused on our big European nights .
9 Welsh international outside half Neil Jenkins will again be missing from the Pontypridd side that makes the trip to West Wales League side Pontarddulais .
10 Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 .
11 The development of the HyperCard was motivated by what I perceived to be missing from the literature of the subject : a framework for the study of electronic publishing .
12 At the time of writing , it appears as though Andy Townsend may be missing from the fray — a loss which would represent a cruel blow indeed .
13 If you think a man could be missing from the job a couple of hours without anyone knowing it , you do n't know Ogden Textiles , Mr. Preston . ’
14 Apparently they were literally poised to arrest both Nigel and Kerry when the clothes were found to be missing from the cupboard this morning .
15 What seems to be missing from the analysis is some measure of how much the savings plan is actually giving you over and above your initial hard earned cash .
16 This keyword was found to be missing from the RDBI configuration file .
17 This keyword was found to be missing from the RDBI configuration file .
18 This keyword was found to be missing from the RDBI configuration file .
19 They say a small amount of money is all that seems to be missing from the Springburn flat where Mrs Law 's body was discovered exactly two weeks ago .
20 Only the bees themselves will be missing from the service .
21 The Government admit that , by 1995 , at least 1,000 Maths teachers , 1,300 teachers of Chemistry , 2,500 language teachers and 6,000 technology teachers will be missing from the total needs .
22 Hundreds more may be missing in the disaster at Llipi , in Bolivia , which lies in the foothills of the Andes .
23 The modelled O 3 column reductions in August and September are smaller than observed , suggesting that O 3 -destroying mechanisms ( probably related to the large increase in sulphate aerosol loading ) may be missing in the simulations .
24 ‘ I may be missing in the memory department , but I do have a brain .
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