Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument reflects the official view disseminated after the war had begun again that Edward had been coerced into accepting the treaty while he was under the tutelage of Mortimer and Isabella and that therefore he could not be bound by it . |
| 2 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 4 | Transition probabilities p(1) to p(4) in Table 6.2 are calculated by counting the number of times the business executive stayed in city a and subsequently ( i ) stayed the next day in city a , ( ii ) moved to city b , ( iii ) moved to city c , ( iv ) moved to city d . |
| 5 | Attendance rates are calculated by dividing the number of openings in the school register by the number of pupils present . |
| 6 | Attendance rates are calculated by dividing the number of openings in the school register by the number of pupils present . |
| 7 | At the stepping rates considered in this Chapter we are justified in regarding the rotor velocity as constant ; the system inertia is sufficient to maintain a steady speed , even if the motor torque varies slightly during each step . |
| 8 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 9 | You are an alien , and so men may believe they are justified in breaking the Yasa to encompass your death . ’ |
| 10 | Private companies can get rid of the pre-emptive rights — by altering their articles , again by special resolution — unless and until the articles are altered by deleting the relevant clause . |
| 11 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 12 | On-screen guidelines are given for changing the ink cartridge , which does 60 pages at a cost of around 2.5 pence each . |
| 13 | Easy to follow instructions on how to use this service are given by ringing the above number . |
| 14 | The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur . |
| 15 | In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions . |
| 16 | The pre-printed endorsements are listed below showing the form on which they appear . |
| 17 | So far discussion has been limited to discussing the beneficiary 's ability to recover the trust property where it had passed into the hands of a third party : in principle the beneficiary was able to follow it , but his claim could be barred depending on the nature of the acquisition by the third party . |
| 18 | Bernadette had been sacked for cheeking the nurse . |
| 19 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 20 | Much effort has been placed into building the sky and the sculptural forms of the pohutukawa trees . |
| 21 | Disclose the amount of purchased goodwill attributable to the business disposed of and how it has been treated in determining the profit or loss on disposal . |
| 22 | ( The court 's powers , however , are limited to remitting the decision to the secretary of state for reconsideration . ) |
| 23 | Tactical options are limited to selecting the team and general player positions ( goalie , defence , midfield , attack ) . |
| 24 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 25 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) had been criticized for risking the lives of six astronauts , merely to launch a satellite which could have been put into orbit more cheaply by an unmanned rocket . |
| 26 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 27 | Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises . |
| 28 | B types are broken on mixing the two components . |
| 29 | The fact that very little concerted thought had been given to organizing the juvenile labour-market does not mean that no action had been taken at the local level by schools , skilled employment committees , and several or more local education authorities . |
| 30 | He was thus ‘ pleased to learn that consideration [ had , at the time of his report ] already been given to increasing the provision of residential facilities for patients with chronic illness ’ . |