Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The business carried on by the company was one entire business and for the purposes of Case I there was only one trade . |
| 2 | Another important industrial activity carried on in the neighbourhood was the extraction of salt from sea water . |
| 3 | It 's probably come in with the door being open . |
| 4 | The second psychoanalytic message that has come through to the public is its preoccupation with sex . |
| 5 | Space for a raiding party was limited , and jolting across the sand perched up on the back was extremely uncomfortable . |
| 6 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 7 | But it was now three o'clock in the morning and the debate was quickly wound up with the money being voted for the site and foundations . |
| 8 | A radar pulse scattered back by the planet is spread over a distance range which exceeds that of the transmitted pulse by an amount equal to the radius of the planet . |
| 9 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 10 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 11 | One of the most important results to have come out of the work is the demonstration that similar molecular those in other larger and more conventionally studied organisms . |
| 12 | The positive things that have come out of the divorce are that I have a much better relationship with my children and I can read a book in bed and not have a jealous partner by my side trying to prevent me . |
| 13 | In 1685 two small-scale but embarrassing attacks , by the Duke of Monmouth in the west of England and the Duke of Argyll in Scotland , had been defeated on land but the initial landings had been carried out without the navy being able to stop them . |
| 14 | The maintenance carried out on the aquarium was a regular 10% water change and a regular ( every two weeks ) larger water change of 20% using an aquarium gravel cleaner to rid the gravel of unwanted waste . |
| 15 | Many of the operations carried out by the sponsor are typical of small-batch operations in large sectors of UK manufacturing and one of the aims of this stage of the research is the derivation of a systematic analysis of production operations in order to gauge the economic potential of fully automated operations . |
| 16 | If the purchaser has actual knowledge that the asset sale carried out by the directors is in breach of their fiduciary duty , the transaction is voidable at the instance of the vendor and the purchaser will hold the proceeds of the sale as a constructive trustee . |
| 17 | Much of the early work on the revolution carried out in the West was by émigré victims of the Bolshevik victory . |
| 18 | And valuations carried out in the region are some of the worst in the country . |
| 19 | The range of research work carried out in the department is wide and reflects its multidisciplinary character . |
| 20 | Preceded by to the infinitive is felt to evoke an action referred to a point in time prior to its realization : ( la ) above situates call as being supposed to follow the existence of the obligation to realize this event , denoted by had . |
| 21 | About 6,000 silk rosettes have to be made next , and these are stitched on the inside and outside of the garland before forty-eight red , white and blue ribbons with bells sewn on to the ends are attached . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 23 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 24 | It 's steamed up between the layers is that what you 're looking at . |
| 25 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 26 | Well it 's fastened off at the back is n't it ? |
| 27 | Distillation is another , in which flowers are boiled in water , and the essential oil given off in the steam is collected and condensed by cooling . |
| 28 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 29 | In another statement , Maj J Laugham DSO of 45 Recce Regiment described how : " On 15 May the main body of the Croats to be handed over to the YUGOSLAVS were encamped to the south of the main road leading from the AUSTRIAN frontier to BLEIBURG … |
| 30 | Anglian Water Authority claims that the water drawn off from the lake is still safe despite these problems because of the treatment it gives the water before it reaches people 's taps . |