Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 2 | Six candidates are embroiled in a Commons clash over who will succeed Bernard Wetherill . |
| 3 | It means that if you are placed on a YTS programme through Compact , you have a real job . |
| 4 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 5 | The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 states that ‘ where a child has been notified that his case has been referred to a children 's hearing , he shall be under an obligation to attend that hearing in accordance with the notification , . |
| 6 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 7 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | The relevant fact is that , if two solutions are mixed in a petri dish or other container , and allowed to stand , the mixture is at first a uniform brown , but this homogeneous state is not stable . |
| 9 | An attempted raid was also been reported at a solicitors office in Horsemarket . |
| 10 | The City Chambers have been booked for a cyclists ’ breakfast and we hope to encourage as many people as possible to bike to work that day . |
| 11 | Because wives are looked on a surrogates for their husbands while the latter are at Westminster , their attitudes to constituency work and their appearance are considered important . |
| 12 | Eddie Browning 's case has now been re-opened with a police inquiry . |
| 13 | The insertion sites from P.wickerhamii , ascomycetous fungi and Marchantia coxI introns are summarized in a coxI protein alignment ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 14 | A central employers ' body in Austria was similarly formed to resist working-class agitation after the ground had been prepared by a manufacturers ' strike indemnity association . |
| 15 | There are thus two types of query that are answered by a GIS . |
| 16 | Although highly inventive and productive , this questionnaire can provide only explicit responses , rather than insight into actual practices , and , through processing , has created a normative characterization of the diverse social fractions involved , which are seen as an exemplars of a larger , statistically-based model of class . |
| 17 | The idea has been expanded into a Peoples Show Festival and similar exhibitions , featuring over 200 different collections of tens of thousands of items , will be held at fourteen different venues from Cheltenham to Stoke on Trent . |
| 18 | Two fire-bomb attacks had previously been made against a police barracks and the court in Lecce , where the appeal was to be heard . |
| 19 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 20 | She is extremely distressed and has been seen by a police surgeon . |
| 21 | These are decided on a points system and the judgements of the commissaires ( referees ) who guide the race in conjunction with its parent body , the Société du Tour de France . |
| 22 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 23 | Chief Insp Malcolm Fordy confirmed that Alan Jackson , of The Bank , had been accused of a firearms offence , but police had been unable to serve a summons on him . |
| 24 | Help Children 's Society : Volunteers are needed for a Children 's Society house to house collection in Catterick Village , near Richmond , in April . |
| 25 | Volunteers are needed for a Children 's Society house to house collection in Catterick Village , near Richmond , in April . |
| 26 | In all cases cuttings must be prepared with a razor blade or very sharp knife , and are rooted in a cuttings compost or a home-made mixture of equal parts peat and sharp sand . |
| 27 | The company will therefore lose its quotation after the measures are approved at a shareholders ' meeting . |
| 28 | A community leader had to be removed from the area under police escort when it was alleged that she had been used as a police informer . |
| 29 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
| 30 | The four Synodontis could have been accommodated in a 36″ tank , accompanied by a few Congo Tetras rather than the Tinfoils . |