Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That state schools should teach by the oral method , but that a child found incapable of learning lipreading and speech after being taught these subjects for at least the initial year should , with the consent of the parents , be removed from the oral department of the school and , subject to strict segregation , be taught on the sign and manual system elsewhere . |
| 2 | My Fellow Tablers , I will never ever forget how proud I was to say those words , Fellow Tablers , my first as a Tabler after being inducted some thirteen years ago . |
| 3 | Keegan , however , will not consider withdrawing from the competition , which has been littered with fights and sendings-off after being revived this season following a 20-year absence . |
| 4 | Well you should of been learning those |
| 5 | if you were born in the Mediterranean you would of been eating that stuff anyway and you 'd never have , think about it |
| 6 | you know , thinking they will , oh christ you know what am I sitting down here for doing that anyhow , I could of been done that at home before I did n't have |
| 7 | Should of been done any way . |
| 8 | he was sort of been doing this job for a week . |
| 9 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 10 | They may therefore approach the post-assessment consultation in the expectation of being given some definite information regarding the child 's difficulties and the likely prognosis . |
| 11 | Apart form requiring a certain amount of self-discipline from those doing it ( and when the legality of remote logging of work-rate seems doubtful under the health and safety laws for VDU operators ) , the tasks which seem capable of being gone this way seem to boil down to two types : self-contained project assignments ( computer programming , report writing , design ) and batch-related clerical work ( data entry or telesales ) . |
| 12 | Madonna had the dubious honour of being voted Most Fanciable Female and Least Fanciable Female by readers aged between 11-16 . |
| 13 | She had a feeling of being carried such distances by the water that it was impossible for any more harm to come to her . |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't handle the pressure of being watched all the time . ’ |
| 15 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 16 | First you 'll have the embarrassment of being told that payment has been refused . |
| 17 | One plan being talked of is to close all India 's universities for a year , during which students and graduates would move into the impoverished rural areas to teach villagers to read and write . |
| 18 | ‘ The only thing I 'm thinking of is to get that desire back into the side . |
| 19 | But what he was n't capable of was killing that tramp . |
| 20 | My mother did n't feel like being left all that time , so she took my two sisters and me to visit her school friend Beryl , who was married to the poet Robert Graves . |
| 21 | What you could do with is labelling these so that , which one of them is the first question , sort of pie chart A if you like then pie chart , pie chart A and again if you 've got the total on , on your pie chart then you , you wo n't get confused will you ? |
| 22 | One of the reasons why the complex inter-market relations of the keiretsu are entered into is to organize those related and ancillary actions which would be internally subject to imperative co-ordination in more typical Western enterprises . |
| 23 | The important thing we were concerned with was to keep those fakes off the market , and we were successful in that . |
| 24 | Despite the domestic chaos caused from being given such short notice , Pearce again rose to the challenge and had moved with his family to the US within six weeks . |
| 25 | The results indicated that people benefited from being given more information , which enabled them to develop and in some cases revise their opinions . |
| 26 | It was only when the tea came that her pleasure in such a welcome , in being given such evidence of the continuing affection in which she was held , abruptly waned . |
| 27 | Although the changes were ‘ A bit unsettling , ’ there were , he believed , ‘ Benefits in being given more freedom to aggressively search for customers and shedding the ‘ government bureaucracy ’ image . ’ |
| 28 | But if people now think everything he has touched has turned instantly to gold then Gatting was not alone in being deceived that day . |
| 29 | Deng Xiaoping managed to stay alive and did not wish to wait for his own death before being given any credit . |
| 30 | In the galley , Harry had his first meal for six days , before being given some bread and butter and cigarettes and being advised to return in two days , just before the ship sailed . |