Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She expected to be shot the instant she emerged . |
| 32 | under Sub-Section 2 ( b ) ( c ) or ( d ) if to the knowledge of the person claiming to be indemnified the person driving does not hold a licence to drive such car unless he has held and is not disqualified for holding or obtaining such a licence |
| 33 | If your client is to be examined the letter of instruction should give full contact addresses and telephone numbers to enable an appointment to be made . |
| 34 | If the plaintiff unreasonably refuses a medical examination his action is not struck out , it is stayed ; but if he continues to refuse to be examined the stay continues and , of course , he runs the risk of dismissal for want of prosecution and , additionally , in the county court , of an automatic strike out under Ord 17 , r11(9) . |
| 35 | We 've got a number of questions we want to ask you , because er though you 're pivotal to all of our erm activities in this enquiry , we are also looking to a report which is hopefully going to be influenced the Bill the Government brings forward . |
| 36 | In my spare time and during vacations , between 1976 and 1978 , I set up what later came to be called the Standing Conference of Asian Youth Organizations . |
| 37 | And would her daughter continue to be called the Duchess of York ? |
| 38 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 39 | William gazed out of the window as they drove through what used to be called The Village and was now just another suburban shopping centre . |
| 40 | But during their stay , at Moses ' instruction , they provided materials for the construction of the very complex tent which has come to be called the tabernacle . |
| 41 | Variety will be the catchword at the new venue , to be called the Beehive Variety Club . |
| 42 | It provides for the appointment of the ombudsman to be called the Building Societies Ombudsman as the adjudicator required by the Act . |
| 43 | More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna . |
| 44 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 45 | The new party was to be called the Revival Party of Mongolia , and 300 MPRP members were said to have joined initially . |
| 46 | It came amid reports that the government had in July accepted US funds to establish a new 100-strong secret service , to be called the Council for Public Security and National Defence , closely linked to the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) . |
| 47 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 48 | ‘ La Piazza : used to be called the Padovani . ’ |
| 49 | Elections will then have to be held to chose the 300 members of the lower house , to be called the State Duma . |
| 50 | In May 1940 with the threat of invasion a call went out for volunteers for a new force to be known as the Local Defence Volunteers or for short L.D.V. This was later to be called the Home Guard and " Dad 's Army " . |
| 51 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 52 | At a meeting in the Rummer Tavern ( which still exists in rebuilt form a few doors from Cottle 's former bookshop ) he was persuaded by ‘ sundry Philanthropists ’ and opponents of the war to begin publication of a periodical to be called the Watchman . |
| 53 | Worst of all for Scottish pride , what has come to be called the Stone of Scone is no longer in its honoured place . |
| 54 | It was to be called the Cloister Group , and meet in the Cloisters . |
| 55 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 56 | ‘ Have you ever taken part in a fire drill , ’ I ask a ticket collector at a station on the Jubilee Line ( which was supposed to be called the Fleet Line until the GLC 's Horace Cutler decided to change it in deference to the Queen at a cost of £50,000 ) . |
| 57 | It 's going to be called The Flesh Prince Of Bel Air or Miss Thai Gone ’ . |
| 58 | The placing of Uruguay and Colombia in the third pool has satisfied the South Americans , and what used to be called the Iron Curtain countries can not complain . |
| 59 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 60 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |