Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 2 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 3 | Ford rumoured to be bringing out a new Capri — a nation quakes |
| 4 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 5 | No I asked her to start but that 's all , and I kept that in the meant to be setting up a place in the posh area but they got ta have |
| 6 | The German barrage seemed to be slackening off a bit , though the Allied guns were still firing over our positions , their shells shaking the trees as they headed toward the German trenches with a loud swish as they passed overhead . |
| 7 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 8 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 9 | With the exception of relief papers and thick fabrics like hessian or grasscloth , most of these special wallcoverings need to be hung on a smooth and level surface for a satisfactory result . |
| 10 | Flocks need to be hung on a good wall surface . |
| 11 | Where they repairing client , where there is hopefully an extremely good relationship , we felt that that was a bit dangerous to be sending out a form to the Chief Executive of saying what er do you think of the service . |
| 12 | The storm seemed to be moving over a little . |
| 13 | A constant stream of US dollar notes would need to be sent from America , only to be sent back a little at a time in individual parcels as above . |
| 14 | The Gary Hutchinson Memorial Appeal is aiming to raise between £12,000 and £15,000 to pay for an image transmission system which will allow those pictures to be sent down a telephone line so specialists at another hospital can advise immediately whether a patient needs to be moved for surgery . |
| 15 | Events , at last , seemed to be taking on a constructive momentum of their own . |
| 16 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
| 17 | She settled him in his chair , and was relieved to see that he seemed to be calming down a little . |
| 18 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
| 19 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
| 20 | It seemed far too insignificant to be holding back a lake large enough to stretch from London to the Scottish borders . |
| 21 | After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them . |
| 22 | But erm , we do seem to be coming out a little bit light . |
| 23 | Then , feeling perhaps that things needed to be put on a proper footing , ‘ Veronica Totteridge . |
| 24 | The principal question , whether the serfs were to be emancipated at all , had been answered , for after the circulation of the Nazimov Rescript to provincial governors and its publication in the journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no doubt that the relationship between landowners and privately owned peasants was going to be put on a new footing . |
| 25 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 26 | — JOHN Davison 's European title challenge to Fabrice Benichou , scheduled for May 15 in France , is set to be put back a fortnight . |
| 27 | You' 11 find that after a few accumulated hours of stunting , one handle will have to be held back a little from the other to hold the overhead soaring position of the kite . |
| 28 | ’ Is that a volatile load to be carried on a motorway ? ’ |
| 29 | Mr Bresslaw had collapsed once before , in October last year , and on that occasion he had to be carried on a stretcher out of a show business dinner . |
| 30 | seems to be making up a bit . |