Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important event in container shipping occurs not when the goods are placed on board the vessel , but when the goods are taken charge of by someone entrusted with the ‘ door to door ’ carriage of the goods , including , when appropriate , vessel carriage . |
| 2 | It was of distinctive hand-laid paper with a griffin watermark and had been posted in Perugia the previous Thursday . |
| 3 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 4 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 5 | For some time now a Canadian company , Delrina Technology , has been producing without doubt the best fax software , for both DOS and Windows . |
| 6 | In cells that had been treated with interferon the entry of the virus was strongly inhibited , although in agreement with previous findings , the adsorption of viruses onto the cells was unaffected . |
| 7 | There is no evidence that Plate Tectonics ever developed on the Moon , and therefore even if the maria are filled by lava the Moon has been far less geologically active than the Earth . |
| 8 | A number of instruments have been developed to measure the functioning of elders . |
| 9 | Performing King Lear in the round meant making eye-contact with members of the audience , some of whom may have really been embroiled in mayhem the actors were merely playing at . |
| 10 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 11 | Similarly , for any group of items which are intended to measure the same aspect of linguistic functioning , there will be a range of scores for children of a similar age ( see Figure 8.1 ) . |
| 12 | In those who have been exposed to infection the entire penis is scrubbed with liquid soap and water for several minutes , and then washed with mercuric perchloride lotion 1:2000 . |
| 13 | I 've been knocking on doors the other night there . |
| 14 | There are several devices on the market which are designed to measure the pitch angle with varying degrees of accuracy but , like everything else , the good ones are expensive . |
| 15 | The awards are organised by Help the Aged and Tunstall Telecom to mark the accomplishments of elderly people . |
| 16 | While William III had been occupied in Ireland the French had been active in the Channel . |
| 17 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 18 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 19 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 20 | Only the top two elements of the stack are ( for speed ) held in processor registers A and B. Operands are added to the top of the stack by being placed in A , whose contents ( if any ) are moved to B. The remainder of a process 's stack is a vector of contiguous store locations . |
| 21 | Since then churches have been named after Charles the Martyr and his claims have sometimes been asserted quite as highly as in 1662 . |
| 22 | Once the section has been applied to premises the afternoon permitted hours are extended by one and a half hours for the sale and supply of liquor for the purposes specified in subs . |
| 23 | RESIDENTS of St Osyth are living in fear the opening of the new Wivenhoe flood barrier will have disastrous consequences for their homes . |
| 24 | The hey-day of sport in our village seems to have been from the late 19th century up to the 1914 war , with a short revival between the wars but although attempts have been made at intervals the same enthusiasm does n't seem to prevail . |
| 25 | I 've spoken to several of the barmen , explaining our dilemma , and elicited a promise that if a couple answering to the description of Svend and your sister put in an appearance and are conversing in English the man shall be discreetly asked if he is Svend Eriksen and , if so , requested to get in touch with me . |
| 26 | Obviously where frequent attempts are made at reconciliation the cost accounts may be reasonably accurate . |
| 27 | And then we 're looking at May the thirteenth for the annual meeting of the parish council . |
| 28 | They 're jockeying for position the moment they see the light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 29 | First we 're talking about de-institutionalisation The Care in the Community circular was concerned with the movement of people from long stay hospital settings into Community settings . |
| 30 | People also seem to get this impression that if you 're released from prison the first thing you want is sex . |