Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] the [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pad , which is placed below the under sheet , acts like a sensitive switch . |
| 2 | UNTIL lines is done in the correct manner , in that the NEXT is aligned with the FOR and the REPEAT with the UNTIL . |
| 3 | Very little information is given in the about the life of Fahreddin Acemi , and very little more is to be found in the other biographical sources . |
| 4 | Much play is given in the to the rather romantic story of Hocazade 's extreme poverty in his youth , a story which lays the basis for a rags-to-riches saga ( in respect both of material wealth and of intellectual achievement ) and which also has overtones of the story of Joseph . |
| 5 | And and and romanticism which is seen as the as the movement which replaces the enlightenment in a sense . |
| 6 | And the only other thing to do is to look at the at matching it . |
| 7 | In most of its occurrences , thank is used with the to infinitive : ( 199 ) I 'll thank you to pass the decanter . |
| 8 | The genes encoding the protein are packaged such that the encoded protein is displayed on the outside of the package . |
| 9 | Erm logic suggests surely that that erm one should concentrate on the adequacy of the phasing er the existing phasing mechanism , and the words within policy H one and the guidance that the county is giving to the to the district authorities , in how they should phase the release of the committed land . |
| 10 | All religions use what in classical theology is known as the via negativa — the negative way of speaking about the centre of religious worship or meditation . |
| 11 | A pipe from the pit is fixed to the outside of the shelter . |
| 12 | Force , for example , conveys an idea of coercion similar to that expressed by make in many of its uses , and yet , like cause , it is followed by the to infinitive : ( 159 ) An injury forced Skorich to quit after the 1949 season . |
| 13 | Oblige , like force , evokes more than merely producing an effect and it too is followed by the to infinitive : ( 164 ) … servants , whom he had obliged to accompany him . |
| 14 | The above contexts where make is followed by the to infinitive , far from disproving the explanation given above of why this verb is generally construed with the bare infinitive , confirm it therefore most convincingly . |
| 15 | A burr is left on the outside of the pipe : this needs to be removed with a flat file , while a round file is used to clean up the inside . |
| 16 | But clearly the it forms two purposes , one is to remove the er the through traffic but also it it forms a purpose of redistribution of the traffic such that er there are er benefits er of getting er traffic off the A sixty one which for example is headed for the for the northern part of Harrogate and that that can come in from the South , it can go up to the A fifty nine and then come back into the northern part of Harrogate without having to pass through the centre of Harrogate . |