Example sentences of "be [verb] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many teenagers feel embarrassed when asked to sing , and few adults are heard singing around the house or whistling on street corners . |
| 2 | The avoidance of such fluctuations was considered desirable not only as a first stage in monetary union but also for the smooth operation of the Common Agricultural Policy , since food prices are calculated according to the exchange value of member currencies . |
| 3 | Fees for investment business certificates are calculated according to the number of principals in an MNP or directors and shareholders in an RB . |
| 4 | Accidentals are placed according to the emotional needs of the melody itself . |
| 5 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 6 | The ability of some species to undergo explosive increases in population had been largely ignored by exponents of the balance theory , but the significance of such phenomena had now been recognized owing to the writings of Thomas Malthus . |
| 7 | The systems planning team will ensure that the subsystems are developed according to the plan which allows for some form of integration later . |
| 8 | A Scotsman had been witnessed hammering on the door of the nearby Bull public house . |
| 9 | Weights are adjusted according to the following rule . |
| 10 | These values have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 11 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 12 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro , ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) . |
| 13 | Repayments and interest have then been calculated according to the terms of the agreement and the estimates of drawings . |
| 14 | Three kinds of power are differentiated according to the means employed to make the subordinates comply : physical , material or symbolic . |
| 15 | In a separate case , those students have been given standing in the Montgomery County Orphans Court for their petition to deny the foundation permission to change the terms of Dr Barnes 's will without reasonable grounds . |
| 16 | At the rear of the idol , seven round indents are formed beginning at the base of the spine and extending to the head . |
| 17 | Officials are full-time employees , promotion is according to seniority and achievement ; pay scales are prescribed according to the position or office held in the organisation structure ; |
| 18 | There was an almost audible sigh of relief around the world that someone had been caught tampering with the dictionary . |
| 19 | Manager McGrath has watched as both Cavan and Fermanagh have been caught napping in the championship so far and does not want a similar fate to befall his side . |
| 20 | Second , when they are raised , they are resolved according to the simple criterion of political muscle power . |
| 21 | You will see that there are two parts to it — one in which the items have been sorted according to the geographical location ( ie by county name , alphabetically ) ; the other by service category . |
| 22 | Firemen were already on their way to the scene because smoke had been reported billowing from the sub-station . |
| 23 | Only 39 per cent had been reported missing to the police . |
| 24 | The mRNAs represent nine distinct splicing patterns and are grouped according to the sources used for isolation of cDNA clones ( GGFBPP4 , 5 , GGFHBS5 , 14 , GGFHFB1 , GGFRP3 ) and of PCR products ( GGFBPP1–3 ) as described in Fig. 1 ; four heregulin clones ( HRG α , HRG β1–3 ) were isolated from the human breast line MB-MDA-231 ( ref. 23 ) and Neu differentiation factor ( NDF ) was cloned from the ras- transformed fibroblast cell line RAT-1J ( ref. 24 ) . |
| 25 | Information is available from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry ( HIPE ) on national bed-use rates by sex , age group and medical condition for non-psychiatric patients , where conditions are grouped according to the seventeen major Chapter headings of the International Classification of Diseases . |
| 26 | Products are grouped according to the principal benefit which customers perceive that their purchase will bring . |
| 27 | The bass part has therefore been added according to the principles of interval harmony , so as to maintain the right equilibrium of consonance and dissonance . |
| 28 | Two-syllable simple adjectives are stressed according to the same rule , giving : |
| 29 | When this operation has been done according to the conventional wisdom you then decide whether you like where you are apparently going to end up . |
| 30 | A short length of new road linking Westburn Avenue to Baberton Mains Hill has been built passing beneath the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway which itself was diverted temporarily to facilitate the construction of this bridge and a larger one carrying the railway over the new bypass . |