Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GP Sandy Jordan , 63 , blasted the hearing as ‘ victimisation ’ after being asked to explain the number of night calls he makes . |
| 2 | She ended up in conflict with co-leader Terry Butler after being selected to join the force . |
| 3 | well business that would n't , my Lord , that 's perhaps the wrong description , business that would not of been written had the restrictions not been in place |
| 4 | I have suggested , however , that it is equally capable of being manipulated to defeat the right . |
| 5 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 6 | On experimenting , he found that they were all within the frequency range of 256 to 320 cycles per second , and speculated that such sounds were capable of being transduced to boost the earth current . |
| 7 | While they are aware of the dangers of being seen to support the Tories , senior party members would argue that neither party had won the election , and Labour could not assume the Liberal Democrats would play its game . |
| 8 | He was an ill-starred leader , and no one liked the risk of being caught breaking the Yasa . |
| 9 | Faced with a deficit of $3,500 million for the 1991/92 fiscal year , the city 's administration was obliged by law to agree upon a balanced budget or face the prospect of being forced to allow the Finance Control Board ( a state watchdog ) to take over its finances . |
| 10 | In a sense , it is not unlike being asked to define the quality red . |
| 11 | Being allocated the entire dark continent as a sales territory for one man is a bit like being asked to cut the grass at Hampden Park single-handedly with a pair of nail scissors . |
| 12 | Health officials and experts from are trying to trace the cause of the gases at Junior School . |
| 13 | We are concerned , firstly , to provide a justification for power being vested in the state ; and then , secondly , we seek to demonstrate that there are constraints upon the exercise of that power which prevent it from being used to infringe the liberty or equality of individuals . |
| 14 | The formation of such complexes might prevent the viral genes from being replicated , or from being used to direct the manufacture of viral proteins . |
| 15 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |
| 16 | Big drops hammered the side of his head and his face ached from being clenched to keep the water out of his eyes . |
| 17 | ( Busch-Petersen , a lawyer by profession and still in his twenties , was mayor in his home district of Pankow for a few months after the revolution , before being asked to head the east Berlin retailers ' association . |
| 18 | He was confident that Barnes would have trained without discomfort before being dispatched to join the squad at their Buckinghamshire headquarters . |
| 19 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it was treated at considerable cost before being allowed to enter the water system , whilst slurry was allowed to enter rivers untreated . |
| 21 | Police and army vehicles were interspersed with civilians ' traps and tradesmen 's carts , the latter having to submit to careful scrutiny before being allowed to enter the Barracks square . |
| 22 | I did n't it has to be said win the pools last year as I always put Leeds for a win and Scum for a loss . |
| 23 | ‘ I think , Dr Markham , ’ she said firmly , ‘ if we are to improve the atmosphere around here and have a reasonable working relationship , there are one or two things that need to be said to clear the air . ’ |
| 24 | The Government seems to be trying to destroy the education and health services in Britain and to set up an alternative system in which wealth rules . |
| 25 | Now they appear to be trying to take the people of Norris Green down the same road and we refuse to go . |
| 26 | In each case these writers can be shown to be trying to place the other outside the sphere of mastery rather than in a relation of negation or of reduplication of the self . |
| 27 | The editor of Argumenty i Fakty , Vladislav Starkov , under strong criticism following the publication in early October 1989 of a readers ' poll of the most unpopular Congress deputies [ see p. 36980 ] , continued to defend himself vigorously in the media and his staff threatened to resign if he was dismissed ; in late October , however , the paper appeared to be trying to appease the party central committee by publishing both an interview with Yegor Ligachev , a leading conservative CPSU politburo member and central committee Secretary responsible for Agriculture , and also an opinion poll favourable to Gorbachev . |
| 28 | It does neither any harm to be seen to be trying to influence the other . |
| 29 | The horse has to be taught to answer the aids correctly by intelligent use of the aids and instant reward of obedience . |
| 30 | These and other matters governing the contents of the scheme document are summarised in Chapter 11. ( 2 ) It is usual for one scheme document to be prepared incorporating the scheme , the explanatory statement , the notice of the court-ordered meeting , the notice of any required EGM of the target and the information required by the City Code and the Yellow Book , if applicable . |