Example sentences of "be missing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacob , increasingly since he commenced going to university , might be missing for the rest of the day ; Joshua , particularly in the summer , would go out for long walks in the country , following , he said , the course of some meshuggeneh game in which young men threw an iron ball along the road and ran after it — could there be such a game ? |
| 2 | I shout and shout for all the warmth of company I 'll be missing at dinner — and the sweat pours from me . |
| 3 | In rare circumstances , one copy may be missing at birth , and this increases the likelihood that the second copy may be damaged , and a tumour then results . |
| 4 | Grobbelaar was left on the bench and could be missing on Sunday as the tug-of-war between Liverpool and Zimbabwe rumbles on . |
| 5 | The tentacle pores are large with two small tentacles although in some specimens one or both scales may be missing on some of the pores . |
| 6 | Martin Ling could be missing with flu … |
| 7 | Martin Ling could be missing with flu … |
| 8 | Leading marksman Brett Angell will be missing until February after a thigh operation and full-backs Dean Austin and Peter Butler have been sold . |
| 9 | Leading marksman Brett Angell will be missing until February after a thigh operation and full-backs Dean Austin and Peter Butler have been sold . |
| 10 | He underwent an operation on an injured thigh in the summer and will be missing until February . |
| 11 | He underwent an operation on an injured thigh in the summer and will be missing until February . |
| 12 | At least 200 people were believed to be missing after a mudslide on Feb. 27 , 1990 , buried the village of San Miguel de Río Mayo in the northern jungle , 800 km north of Lima , following heavy rains . |
| 13 | Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket . |
| 14 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 15 | England defeated Poland 1-0 , Roger Hunt the goalscorer and the tenacious manner of that victory persuaded us that the possibilities were immense ; of that team , only Jimmy Greaves would be missing from the World Cup Final . |
| 16 | This at least will tend to improve informal quality control and provide the care and attention to the goals of the work that may be missing from contract analysis . |
| 17 | What seem to be missing from Conservative ‘ active citizenship ’ are these other dimensions . |
| 18 | But I have an inkling which sport may be missing from the Olympiad of the future . |
| 19 | GOALKEEPER Adrian Blake will be missing from Kingstonian 's FA Cup rematch against Peterborough on Friday afternoon because of work commitments . |
| 20 | GOALKEEPER Adrian Blake will be missing from Kingstonian 's FA Cup rematch against Peterborough on Friday afternoon because of work commitments . |
| 21 | ‘ People ask me if it 's embarrassing to be missing from the Rangers side when England is focused on our big European nights . |
| 22 | Welsh international outside half Neil Jenkins will again be missing from the Pontypridd side that makes the trip to West Wales League side Pontarddulais . |
| 23 | Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 . |
| 24 | The development of the HyperCard was motivated by what I perceived to be missing from the literature of the subject : a framework for the study of electronic publishing . |
| 25 | And as for the guns that are supposed to be missing from Taigh na Tuir , I can tell you all you want to know about that . |
| 26 | At the time of writing , it appears as though Andy Townsend may be missing from the fray — a loss which would represent a cruel blow indeed . |
| 27 | But in spite of the insistent use of demotic speech in The Confidential Clerk , the very quality which seems to be missing from it is contemporaneity — it is worth remembering , in contrast , that John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was produced only three years later . |
| 28 | If you think a man could be missing from the job a couple of hours without anyone knowing it , you do n't know Ogden Textiles , Mr. Preston . ’ |
| 29 | Apparently they were literally poised to arrest both Nigel and Kerry when the clothes were found to be missing from the cupboard this morning . |
| 30 | What seems to be missing from the analysis is some measure of how much the savings plan is actually giving you over and above your initial hard earned cash . |