Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 3 | The properties of the state so formed are related in a probabilistic way to the properties of the states out of which it is composed [ the photon has a chance unc a of transmission ( which is a certainty for polarisation along y ) and a chance cos ' a of not being transmitted ( which is a certainty for polarisation along x ) ] This is what is meant by the superposition principle : that states can be combined in this way with a probability interpretation of the result . |
| 4 | Even more striking is the provision that if such a tenement is not alienated , but the alms for which it was originally given are neglected over a period of two years , then the property shall again be recoverable at law by the donor or his heirs . |
| 5 | The candidate who brings his whole library to such an examination often fails : the facts that he needs are lost in a multitude of pages . |
| 6 | A point worth noting is that when the State of Tennessee issued the order to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School , the entire assets of the school were sold at public auction , including the land , buildings , library , stock etc , and having learned this savage lesson from experience , the land and buildings on which the new Highlander Research and Education Center is now located are owned by a separate Trust which is completely distinct from Highlander , and is now answerable for any of the activities which take place there . |
| 7 | If the webs of potato harvested are sprayed with a particular strain of Phoma that does not occur naturally , tubers harvested immediately after spraying developed gangrene rots , from which the abnormal strain could be cultured . |
| 8 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 9 | Since a Conservative government has been elected for a fourth term these developments will probably continue . |
| 10 | FORMER Mr Universe Terry Phillips , 53 , has been elected as a Conservative councillor in Knowsley , Merseyside . |
| 11 | If he wins , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |
| 12 | If confirmed , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |
| 13 | They take this view because they are alive to the fact that since 1935 no government has been elected by a majority of the electorate and secured 50 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 14 | Looking to the future , filming has been completed on a Service Quality Development video on telephone techniques . |
| 15 | In Fig 36 an example is given of a holding pattern that has been completed in a time of 4 mins 28 secs . |
| 16 | Plans to develop Penang Hill , an isolated patch of forest on one of Malaysia 's most densely-populated islands , has been halted after a protest campaign . |
| 17 | Construction work on the world 's largest hydroelectric project , in Northern Quebec , Canada , has been halted by a ruling from the National Energy Board that the project must comply with federal guidelines on the environment . |
| 18 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 19 | It was the first time the company has been prosecuted for a hygiene offence . |
| 20 | But the investigation , on natural history lines , has been prosecuted with a large measure of success . |
| 21 | Recent comment has been disfigured by a good deal of misinformation . |
| 22 | The sun has been snatched behind a curtain of black cloud . |
| 23 | The clipboard copy of the trees has been pasted into a Cel in the Cel Editor . |
| 24 | FOLLOWING an elderly taxi in London or heavy truck up a country hill , both spewing clouds of acrid smoke , makes it hard to believe that diesel exhausts can be no more harmful than those from a petrol engine that has been fitted with a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 25 | The part you require is 560794 ( Genuine Parts ) This is equivalent to GTRIII which is a Unipart number As you have fitted two of these to no avail I would try the gauge itself As your Land Rover has been fitted with a non-original switch to work the glow plugs and this has caught fire , there may have been a short circuit which damaged the voltage stabiliser and temperature sender unit and has probably damaged the gauge itself The colour of the sender unit is not significant |
| 26 | If , however , your car has been fitted with a catalytic converter ( see below ) you can only fill up with unleaded . |
| 27 | Which leads us on to the big selling point of these guitars , since this is the first time a production Telecaster has been fitted with a five-way switch . |
| 28 | Lucky Ebenezer , 74 , and his 75-year-old wife , who has been fitted with a heart pacemaker , will now be taking life much easier at their home in Aberystwyth , west Wales . |
| 29 | Access is made via two Ratcliff passenger lifts and the carriage has been fitted with a spacious , specially equipped toilet , and wheelchair tracking . |
| 30 | A thermal imaging camera , which can find and follow suspects even at night , has been fitted to a police helicopter . |