Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Then he flew up beside Cassowary and pretended to be listening to the song .
2 James studied the title page and for twenty seconds pretended to be fascinated by the contents of page one .
3 The amount of any expenditure proposed to be incurred by the authority under any particular contract for the acquisition of property or the supply of goods or services .
4 As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure made in compliance with ’ the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court .
5 As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure made in compliance with ’ the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court .
6 ‘ As I understand the position , the condition proposed to be included in the order after [ In re O. ] would only apply to ‘ disclosure ’ made in compliance with the order sought and therefore not prevent the Crown Prosecution Service/Hampshire Constabulary utilising the material held and/or other material obtained independently of the present proceedings in the High Court . ’
7 I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school .
8 In February the European Commission proposed a directive requiring waste producers , handlers and the governments involved to be informed of the details of each shipment , a measure with which the European Parliament , on 14 April , roundly agreed .
9 The direction of a subject 's first eye movement following a question was recorded and found to be related to the type of question being asked .
10 Dodman was driving a van found to be loaded with the stolen property .
11 Mutant recombinants were constructed by site directed mutagenesis of the G-residues found to be methylated in the DMS-interference analysis .
12 Bold Gs show the guanines found to be methylated in the methylation interference analysis .
13 This brings in sanctions against foreign companies found to be contributing to the proliferation of these weapons .
14 A schoolteacher from Eastern Europe , believed to be touring in the area .
15 Garretta , believed to be living in the USA , was additionally fined F500,000 ( about US$100,000 ) .
16 Middlesbrough 's Acklam Park is the subject of a £5m bid from property developers Foinavon , believed to be working with the Argyll Group , owner of supermarket chains Presto and Safeway .
17 A Supreme Court judge , Fabiola Borrero , from the western city of Cali , was shot dead on Sept. 22 by gunmen believed to be working for the Cali drug cartel .
18 In February Old Kewlany had intersected a two inch vein in Fleming 's Level — a quartz string believed to be associated with the vein ahead .
19 Advice on the bases believed to be used by the Shares Valuation Division of the Inland Revenue are available from the Shares Valuation Unit in London Office .
20 De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated .
21 During his visit Kozyrev made a plea for the release of Russian prisoners of war ( POWs ) believed to be held by the mujaheddin .
22 It is one of the wonders of the Christmas story that Jesus — the authoritative Word of God — stooped to be born in the humblest of settings ; it is one of the wonders of the Christian faith that after His resurrection , Jesus should remind His disciples that He retained all authority in heaven and earth .
23 Pop was no longer a community of youth as it had been in the sixties , nor a means of changing society , but a meaningless marketing exercise which deserved to be exposed for the charade that it was .
24 This was an area that deserved to be explored from the ground .
25 He doubted if Dysart deserved to be ruined by the ruthless young woman Clare Mallender seemed to have been , any more Man he deserved to be hounded by the unscrupulous journalist Jonathan Minter undoubtedly was .
26 He doubted if Dysart deserved to be ruined by the ruthless young woman Clare Mallender seemed to have been , any more Man he deserved to be hounded by the unscrupulous journalist Jonathan Minter undoubtedly was .
27 A preference consists of anything done or suffered to be done by the vendor which has the effect of putting one of its creditors , or any surety or guarantor , into a position which , in the event of the vendor going into insolvent liquidiation , would be better than the position which such person would have been in if that thing had not been done .
28 In 1970 , Wilson appealed to be judged on the government 's record , on its competence in dealing with ‘ the country 's problems ’ and in particular the balance of payments .
29 The village came to be represented as the source of all the traditional virtues , the heart of the Japanese tradition .
30 The story of how after his death Bunyan and the Pilgrim 's Progress came to be assimilated by the Church of England is almost as fascinating as that of his life .
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