Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doors , after being fitted in this gauge , were handed over to the coach finishers , who fitted the casing boards , either of walnut or mahogany . |
| 2 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 3 | Fewer pigs are kept in these republics ( pork being an unclean meat for Muslims , as it is for Jews ) and traditional customs such as the postponement of cohabitation ( kaitarma ) , pilgrimages to the graves of local holy men and even abduction are still practised , in some cases with the covert support of local party officials ( most tragic of all were the reports of girls who had burned themselves to death after being dishonoured in this and other ways ) . |
| 4 | And when she starts seeing things she wants , that her mates have got , we might not be able to afford things , because we 've sort of been dumped in this situation . |
| 5 | We did have hopes of being re-equipped for this Tripoli show , ’ — by coincidence he was writing on the very day Tripoli fell — ‘ but they did n't materialise , so we shall have to seek the bubble reputation elsewhere . |
| 6 | Finally , as if all this was n't enough , the effects of being covered with this diseased , filthy mucus are identical to those from falling into the Miasmic Marsh ( area 63 ) — although they are not cumulative with those effects . |
| 7 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 8 | She had no intention of being accepted by this family . |
| 9 | Maybe they are fed up of being seen as this natural type of band . |
| 10 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 11 | Geophysics represents 10% of the 700 theses included in the full Rolfe and Will lists , and so clearly geophysical papers have a disproportionately greater chance of being published in this journal than research on general or structural geology . |
| 12 | Johnson , after a moment of being stung at this carelessness , dismissed it as ‘ rather an inconvenience than a loss ’ , and went on to use the incident to defend his views on the second sight . |
| 13 | The erm what we 've not erm what has not been er challenged is the argument that it is a good thing for North Yorkshire and for the region and for the United Kingdom and possibly for the European Union , that footloose inward investment , sorry footloose investment , of erm strategic importance should erm be capable of being attracted to this county . |
| 14 | As women , we can feel a dread of being overtaken by this archetype . |
| 15 | ‘ And if I wo n't stay ? ’ she managed to croak , the prospect of being imprisoned in this fortress of suspicion with a man like Marc Alexander Vila filling her with horror . |
| 16 | Seeing it , and thinking of him safely in heaven with no risk now of being zipped into this airless rubber gas-bag made Dot start to cry . |
| 17 | All tha you 've got ta de all that 's got ta be done on this paper otherwise you 'll find all the , your animal do n't run . |
| 18 | Upon being asked about this , one policeman explained , ‘ To tell you the truth I did n't notice much of a difference . |
| 19 | Huy started to walk away , realising with bitterness how far away he still was from being accepted in this new society , and realising to his renewed surprise how much he wanted to be . |
| 20 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 21 | But far from being cowed by this event , the market women picked up their dead and wounded , armed themselves with stones , sticks and knives and counter-attacked . |
| 22 | We looked up to see the safety diver frantically untangling himself from suddenly treacherous lines before being bumped by this moving mountain . |
| 23 | Other words such as tacking , beating , heaving to are explained in this way . |
| 24 | Through conversation , it was soon realised that although consultants welcomed the concept of the educational supervisor theoretically , they did not all wish to be burdened with this increased responsibility . |
| 25 | He looked so dignified , so calm , so thankful to be gone from this world and from his troublesome son . |
| 26 | Indeed a number of recent centralised initiatives , such as TVEI , seem to be based on this premise , although , as Harland ( 1985 ) points out , compliance can not simply be bought with the allocation of resources . |
| 27 | New economic strategy may well have to be based around this UDC , and could thus become one of partnership and cooperation between the city council and private firms . |
| 28 | The er the er it has to be said on this side I suspect that the brevity of that speech was quite welcome , only because er I think er a number of us were n't altogether sure how how much time we would , we would get in this er debate after the front bench speaks , speeches . |
| 29 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 30 | There is much to be said for this explanation . |