Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as you may resent being disturbed in the college library , so fellow students do n't enjoy being interrupted in the middle of some important piece of work . |
| 2 | Just as you may resent being disturbed in the college library , so fellow students do n't enjoy being interrupted in the middle of some important piece of work . |
| 3 | You did n't like being woken in the middle of the night for ice cream , but you sat up and ate it in bed before it melted to please your father . |
| 4 | A wooden mansion was quite an inviting residence : it consisted of the saloon of a large ship that must have been wrecked in the neighbourhood . |
| 5 | While I am happy that our efforts to keep more heavy traffic off the roads should achieve front page prominence , I am not so keen that so much journalistic ‘ topspin ’ should have been applied in the process . |
| 6 | There is surely a certain irony in the fact that such a conservative movement should have been enlisted in the service of an essentially liberal aspiration . |
| 7 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 8 | Whatever mistakes may have been made in the past , CPRW believes that the current Inquiry provides a most necessary and timely opportunity to reassess priorities . |
| 9 | As judicial proceedings are thought to have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been held at prominent landmarks , legal decisions could have been made in the vicinity of Loyal centuries ago . |
| 10 | Having now documented Louis 's address and instrument business near the Pont Marie Therese for the years 1691,1692 and 1712 , while the other Louis lived on the rue Marmousets and evidently worked in his brother Nicolas 's atelier ( according to common practice , he would have used his brother 's stamp ) , we can conclude that the former made instruments stamped ‘ L/Hotteterre ’ with a fleur-de-lis above , whereas instruments by the latter would have been made in the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre and stamped ‘ N/Hotteterre ’ with a six-pointed star above . |
| 11 | Their weapons would have been deposited in the locker the previous night by a UNACO operative . |
| 12 | It is necessary to ask why such implicit justifications might have been developed in the absence of oven criticisms . |
| 13 | Whatever showmanship may have been developed in the CHAB productions was now to be used originating talks programmes and other current affairs features , including discussion groups , from the Vancouver studios of CBC to the forty-odd stations of the national network . |
| 14 | The abolition of car tax was a bold move but it should have been done in the Budget last March , as the motor industry had asked . |
| 15 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 16 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 17 | Sir , I would like to correct an impression that may have been given in the Science Fiction , Horror and Fantasy round-up ( 2nd April ) regarding sales of James Herbert 's Portent in hardback . |
| 18 | This nightmare of processing phantoms reminds us of the procession of daemons from Phaistos , which could have been seen in the sort of opium trance de Quincey described . |
| 19 | The destructive psychic and social conditions Fanon describes would have been compounded in the case of Athman . |
| 20 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |
| 21 | I 'm sure the system would have been implemented in the quarry , and they would 've suffered even worse than us . |
| 22 | A few years ago we hoped that a footpath would have been incorporated in the flood protection scheme . |
| 23 | Dose reduction is mentioned in the conclusions of the paper but this could easily have been incorporated in the design ; instead , one of the randomised groups in the study received 9 instead of 14 days of epoetin , a seemingly meaningless comparison . |
| 24 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |
| 25 | Designed as a demonstration of bi-partite segregation between public and saloon , it lends itself poorly to unification , and the restorable public bar would have been lost in the process . |
| 26 | It is perhaps doubtful in the present climate that the aircraft could have been kept in the air beyond the end of this year , even if the VA has still been in a position to influence affairs . |
| 27 | The range and depth of learning and the sense of satisfaction and achievement gained by the students were of a level which could not have been reached in the classroom . |
| 28 | There are , however , major conceptual problems involved in claims as to the desired level of GDP or the level which would have been achieved in the absence of discretionary intervention . |
| 29 | Priscus was a native of the region around Chartres in Gaul and both may have been employed in the construction of the great bath and temple complex . |
| 30 | In either case it is unlikely that all the legal formalities will have been completed in the time allowed for filing an appeal . |