Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also campaigned against pollution but suffered the irony of being prosecuted himself for pollution in 1857 , which caused him to move his works to Miles Platting . |
| 2 | India , despite being thrashed themselves in South Africa immediately before this series , have looked sharper and better equipped in every department . |
| 3 | Their hatred of exploitation and their knowledge of western capitalism and the socialist movement it had brought into being led them to utopian socialist illusions . |
| 4 | However , we believe that for children not to be taught anything about language is seriously to their disadvantage . |
| 5 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 6 | After breaking into two local homes and hi-jacking the occupants ' cars the IRA launched their attack on the apparently vulnerable target only to be ambushed themselves by the SAS . |
| 7 | His new book , as yet untitled , but probably to be called something like Raymond Blanc — Cooking at Home , is going to be full of explanations . |
| 8 | I was grateful to be called anything at all . |
| 9 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
| 10 | These two things indepen , exist independently of one another , if they are to be checked one against the other , that is a major task which we better start attacking now if that is what required . |
| 11 | And the ideas need to be caught they need to be done something with by the rest of the group . |
| 12 | After reports in the Washington Post that the ICRC and UN field workers had hired several thousand local " mercenaries " to protect food distribution operations , the ICRC on May 8 issued a statement to the effect that " local relief committees " organized by the clans and sub-clans were acting as a " police force " ; a small amount of the food aid was to be given them as " food for work " . |
| 13 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 14 | You have n't ans answered my question Mr Chairman , I asked you why did the Council vote to this museum on the Norfolk enquired by trust which to be given you by the Suffolk Authority Wild Life Trust |
| 15 | A COMPANY is threatening to axe half its workforce unless it is paid more than £20,000 claimed to be owed them by Liverpool City Council . |
| 16 | I just wondered what those contexts and you will be bound to be asked it in council if it 's not asked now . |
| 17 | If these spaces are not to be compared one to another , and no original research has been carried out , what exactly is the purpose of this well-prepared book ? |
| 18 | The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other . |
| 19 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
| 20 | THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend . |
| 21 | Perhaps the survivors of a stranding are less likely to be stranded themselves at a later date . |
| 22 | Ashley waited to be told which of them she was to accompany , but the numbers dwindled and nothing was said . |
| 23 | No true blue inhabitant of Paradise Street or Mouncy Street ever needed to be told anything from the police ; they had ways of finding out . ) |
| 24 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 25 | If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable . |
| 26 | But the class needs to be allowed plenty of time to formulate a reply . |
| 27 | " I do n't mind investigating poisonings on the farms but I object to being poisoned myself in my own home ! " |
| 28 | British Columbia 's powerful timber industry — led by MacMillan Bloedel , the company that will be doing much of the cutting in Clayoquot — feigned relief at being given anything at all while bemoaning the loss of jobs that the mild restrictions would cause . |