Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To imply that the Kha-Khan 's exchequer was likely to be burdened beyond its ability to support the embassy was nonsense , as they both knew . |
| 2 | He lay in the bed , touching Emily with fingers too rough for her skin , wondering what he could give her that would even approach what he thought of her ; waiting to be gone to his own place . |
| 3 | Presently Mrs Mantini went out , to be gone for her usual two hours before closing-time . |
| 4 | Their knowledge is likely to be based on their memories of their own parenting . |
| 5 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 7 | Since the defence must be given a copy of the statement of a proposed witness who has not made a deposition , it must follow that , if a Crown witness 's evidence is intended to depart significantly from his deposition and to be based on his statement to the police , it is the duty of the Crown to give the defence a copy of that statement in advance of the hearing . |
| 8 | The book was to be based on my M.A. thesis , but was to be extended to a more general treatment of the language of advertising . |
| 9 | All research groups will continue to be based in their present locations . |
| 10 | It wants a unitary authority and it wants it to be based upon its present framework . |
| 11 | Difficult though it would undoubtedly be for him I do not understand it to be said on his behalf that it would be impossible . |
| 12 | Built as a rival to the parish church at Lavenham , Long Melford was financed by local parishioners , some of whose names were carved in stone around the clerestory in an inscription which called for prayers to be said for their souls . |
| 13 | When foreign-language teachers are nowadays being encouraged to ‘ play the role of a sympathetic native speaker ’ , there must be something to be said for their actually being ‘ sympathetic native speakers ’ . |
| 14 | And what 's to be said of his declaration , as late as 1964 ( in Confucius to Cummings , the anthology he put together with Marcella Spann ) , that Ford 's insistence on ‘ the limpidity of natural speech , driven towards the just word , not slopping down … into the more ordinary Wordsworthian word ’ was ‘ the most important critical act of the half-century ’ ? |
| 15 | More needs to be said about our conviction , but here we have something . |
| 16 | A periodical reunion of the deaf of Great Britain and Ireland should always occur , and there is everything to be said in its favour . |
| 17 | At the moment their relationship was a weekend one , but both of them occasionally thought that the idea of marriage still had something to be said in its favour . |
| 18 | With mature fish displaying as much colour as juveniles , and adult sizes remaining at manageable levels for most marine aquariums , there is so much to be said in their favour . |
| 19 | Now they wait amid property speculators and TV celebrities who went out with them but stayed somewhere smarter , and negligent Seychellois airport operatives , for a new engine to be fixed to their Airbus . |
| 20 | Some , for example , would argue that if the well -established indigenous white population are taught in their mother tongue , English , those originating from the New Commonwealth deserve a similar right to be taught in their mother tongue — Urdu , Punjabi , Bengali and so on . |
| 21 | And now we 've all managed to carve out or own identities , and to be recognized for our own distinctive bodies of work . ’ |
| 22 | One may think that as the ethical equality of human beings comes to be recognized in our society , the masculine nature of their religion will become an ever more pressing question for Christians . |
| 23 | I believe therefore that our music is to be recognized by its melodies , and that it is highly important that they be distinctive , with clear-cut , decisive shapes . |
| 24 | The eel had to be prepared for her journey by staff at the centre who gradually acclimatised her in their newly built quarantine unit . |
| 25 | They were to be prepared for their maternal duties and given material assistance to maintain a higher standard of motherhood . |
| 26 | The matron moved towards Elinor 's bed on legs that seemed to be joined to her feet without ankles : she did not walk so much as stomp . |
| 27 | I am delighted to be joined by my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley , South ( Mr. McMaster ) . |
| 28 | Supposing , then , you have a mother who is willing to be observed with her baby , where do you begin your objective description ? |
| 29 | On 15 June , after further demonstrations , the Armenian Supreme Soviet voted unanimously for the disputed region to be transferred to their republic ; the Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet , meeting two days later , was equally unanimous in holding this vote to be in violation of the Soviet Constitution . |
| 30 | A more fundamental question is : to what extent do we allow cultural elements of the first century to be transferred to our day ? |