Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally this study has given me a good idea of what life has been for people living in the past in America , where as before , I would n't have had a clue and it 's also taught me that no matter how many times you read a book , you 'll always find new links and connections . |
| 2 | I should like to thank all our workforce , the majority of whom are of course remaining with the company , for their impressive commitment to getting on with the job in hand , despite the company 's problems . |
| 3 | It is noteworthy that the majority are of plants starting with the letter ‘ A ’ which , as has been explained , proportionately outnumbered the other letters in the Figures . |
| 4 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 5 | And what Ms Meckler and her designer , Dermot Hayes , have inventively done is to remind us that these characters are like people picknicking on the edge of Vesuvius . |
| 6 | Is it not a fact that most of the jobs lost have been in industries belonging to the last century and that most of the jobs gained are in industries with a bright future ? |
| 7 | time we 've had men who have been in war talking about the horror of war |
| 8 | Now unit six is very likely to come up in the exam so when you do this test for Monday you are in effect preparing for the exam . |
| 9 | Now in those cases we ca n't use the normal Chow tests we 've got more parameters to estimate than we have observations , right , as a result Chow developed a second test , right , from structural change where we do n't need er erm to estimate essentially the regression in the sub sample which has got very few obser observations but in that Chow , that Chow second test is often called a test of predicted failure , right , Microfit will calculate both of those tests and bear in mind I mean that we 're spending a lot of time on er parameter constancy , we must bear in mind that parameter constancy is vitally important if we are going to make these inferences possible be about policy making on the basis of our estimates . |
| 10 | The Watchfield camp would be for travellers passing through the area . |
| 11 | By now the Arab with my coat would be in Malaga waiting for the boat across to Africa . |
| 12 | They look as though they should be on horseback flying towards the sun . |
| 13 | He needs continually to be at work dealing with the shifting population of a modern age , so that people who move house to a new estate shall still find a priest and a sacrament for their souls . |
| 14 | Yet by now Battle Brothers were as mastiffs straining on the leash ; and it began to seem that the cadets might become Scouts in time to participate in the great endeavour , should they be so fortunate . |
| 15 | They were like astronauts landing on the moon and finding footprints in the dust , or like the mountain climbers in Jules Verne who , having at last reached the summit of what they take to be a virgin Himalayan peak , find a sign saying : M. Durand , Dentist , 14 rue Caumartin , Paris . |
| 16 | His government argued that the small temples which it had demolished were on land belonging to the state tourist department . |
| 17 | Writers Fay Weldon and Marina Warner and Colin MacCabe , the former head of production at the British Film Institute , were among witnesses appearing before the Video Appeals Committee , called to examine a decision by the British Board of Film Classification to refuse a release certificate to ‘ Visions of Ecstasy ’ . |
| 18 | Thus , perhaps , I believe that my children are at present playing in the garden at home , and I have good reasons for this belief . |
| 19 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 20 | The instance here is of Stavrogin pretending to the provincial governor that he has a secret to communicate to him , and , when the unsuspecting old man ‘ hastily and trustfully ’ inclines his head , seizing his ear in his teeth and holding on to it , biting hard . |
| 21 | Firstly there 's more chance striking a match on wet tripe than there is of Boro getting to the FA Cup Final . |
| 22 | An obvious place to begin is with problems arising from the omission of the proper words for a testamentary disposition . |
| 23 | The main problem is with children diving on the floor which can lead to someone getting hurt . |
| 24 | Erm , we now move on to item eight appendix two and it 's in matters arising regarding the estate . |
| 25 | This eventuality is provided for in s.97 of the Public Health Act 1936 , and proceedings may be instituted against any one , or all of the odour emitters providing sufficient evidence can be obtained to satisfy the court that a particular works is in fact contributing to the statutory nuisance . |
| 26 | It is clear from the context of such pairs that in every case where the second speaker responds to a proposition of the first speaker with " you know what I mean ! " or " you know ! " , the second speaker is in fact agreeing with the first . |
| 27 | Traditionally everything is carried in baskets on the head or shoulders , and you can often see these large wicker baskets full of cabbage , potatoes , oranges , apples or whatever is in season waiting at the side of the road for transport to the market in Funchal . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ If the tape is real — and I am not convinced that it is — it is without doubt damaging to the monarchy . |
| 29 | The aim is to free-up housing for the needy and boost revenue from the city 's 57,000 tenants . |
| 30 | Because planning is by definition interfering in the unfettered use of land and buildings , to be justified and accepted by the general public it must produce a ‘ better ’ answer than a free market would . |