Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many young stock for fattening are bought in the market at York from the upland farmers of Ireland , Wales , Scotland and the Pennines . |
| 2 | The changes in parking behaviour in St John 's Wood are similar to those observed in the period after wheelclamping was introduced in central London in 1982 . |
| 3 | He arrived with Archbishop Wallenstein , after having been trained in Rome and worked on the palace in 1676 . |
| 4 | Any EC national may now reside in any member state to seek or take up employment , accompanied by his family ( Directive 68/360/EC ) , establish firms or provide services ( 73/148 ) and remain in that territory after having been employed in that State ( 70/1251 , 72/194 ) . |
| 5 | Details of wounding are given in the legend to Table 1 . |
| 6 | Their inner understanding of belonging was mirrored in external images of withdrawal . |
| 7 | Satisfactory control of bleeding was achieved in all cases except one individual who underwent successful emergency surgery for uncontrollable haemorrhage . |
| 8 | MATLOCK TOWN , the HFS Loans League team , are still in the FA Trophy - despite having been defeated in the first round . |
| 9 | Trotsky and the ice-man had been his attempt to solve the problem of why he was still alive despite having been shot in the head . |
| 10 | The Duke arranged for a long avenue Or lime trees to be planted alongside a driveway leading from the main road that ran westward from London ( Chiswick High Road ) and sweeping into his Chiswick House grounds and , despite having been cut in two by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension , it still remains as Dukes Avenue . |
| 11 | The question of forming an independent union had sharply divided delegates during the five days of debate , despite having been approved in principle at the first congress in June [ see p. 37617 ] . |
| 12 | The mere fact of having been cast in the role of daughter , daughter-in-law , son or son-in-law does not automatically endow any of us with the ability to play that part to perfection , particularly when it begins to need more than smiles and pleasantries at family gatherings , and demands qualities of patience , perseverance and insight , and the regular visiting of a lonely and possibly disabled old person . |
| 13 | Wharton turned pro in 1989 with the dubious distinction of having been disqualified in his ABA national final . |
| 14 | There was nothing illegal in this and , indeed , if Joyce 's story of having been born in County Galway were accepted , he would merely be the returning exile . |
| 15 | Few of the exhibits , which are expected to fetch around £100,000 in total , come with a guarantee of having been used in any particular film or show . |
| 16 | Nicholas Reeves says that three years of collecting is reflected in the exhibition , ( among the difficulties of acquiring top quality pieces is the fact that it is currently illegal to export antiquities from Egypt ) . |
| 17 | Language and indeed behaviour generally is necessarily ordered and is represented internally as strategies , schemata are not inherently sequential and thinking can thus be concerned with context before the constraint of achieving is introduced in order to generate an output . |
| 18 | The sense in which they are natural is that such ways of behaving are grounded in instinctive reactions , and their prototypes are observed in some animals . |
| 19 | 1/My usual method of working is to block in the largest shapes first and then gradually break down into smaller and smaller shapes . |
| 20 | My usual method of working is to block in the largest shapes first and then gradually break down into smaller and smaller shapes . |
| 21 | William Hutton , the son of a framework knitter , was sent to work at Derby 's silk mill in 1730 ; he later cursed his luck for having been born in the one city in the world where such could have been his fate . |
| 22 | If Cambodians fear the Khmers Rouges enough , they may forgive the Phnom Penh government for having been put in power by the Vietnamese . |
| 23 | A superb pâté de foie gras with truffles was served first , and the main course was confit de canard — duck crisp and succulent from having been preserved in its own fat . |
| 24 | Its thoughts on squatting were published in a paper earlier this year : it was in favour of making squatting a criminal offence . |
| 25 | He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby . |
| 26 | Learning by remembering is applied in many situations and under different names . |
| 27 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 28 | Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen . |