Example sentences of "be [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry . |
| 2 | Whereas in Los Angeles I manipulated costly hot and cold water in appropriate vessels throughout the house , Bali is a network of streams and rivers which , like veins and arteries , must be distinguished one from the other for their various uses . |
| 3 | These two things indepen , exist independently of one another , if they are to be checked one against the other , that is a major task which we better start attacking now if that is what required . |
| 4 | Should n't I be compensating someone for the loss of the Seren ? ’ |
| 5 | No true blue inhabitant of Paradise Street or Mouncy Street ever needed to be told anything from the police ; they had ways of finding out . ) |
| 6 | She seemed to be deciding something about the knitting in her lap . |
| 7 | It was possible , however that from a licensed dealer they would be getting nothing of the kind . |
| 8 | Well just any time , we wo n't be doing nothing until the end of May anyway . |
| 9 | Putting this point on a more theoretical level , the musical field and the class structure at any given moment , though clearly not unconnected , comprise different ‘ maps ’ of social/cultural space , and they can not be reduced one to the other ( see Williams 1981 ) . |
| 10 | Since the ubiquitous Robert Goodwill ( Tory , Redcar ) keeps asking us his Labour opponent 's whereabouts , we can tell him that Marjorie Mowlam will be having one in the Punch Bowl too . |
| 11 | They 're not gon na be saying anything about the dangers of bullying in the recruiting office . |
| 12 | Even if the arrangement within each class was a branching tree , the classes themselves could be set one above the other to form a continuous sequence . |
| 13 | ‘ Once you start taking people from poor families you might well be tempted to concentrate just on them , and in the end you wo n't be taking anyone from the streets at all . ’ |
| 14 | I would n't put it past him to be slipping something into the juice when nobody 's looking . |
| 15 | Independent software vendors will be charged nothing until the second year when a $2,500 fee per company will be levied . |
| 16 | To the extent to which it makes sense to speak of interactions between whole nations at all , we suggest that the two superpowers and their allies may indeed be playing something like the paranoids ' hypergame . |
| 17 | Not that I will be changing anything in the immediate area of the shelf at the base of which the bait lies , but I thought it better to give the carp a profound liking for the swim before even one stalk of rush or one lily pad was removed . |
| 18 | We shall not be throwing everything into the air and rewriting systems that already work satisfactorily . |
| 19 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 20 | Will be crossing everything in the hope of a last minute reprieve . |
| 21 | Michael Middleton has argued that Minton 's search for stimuli in exotic places and his febrile manner of living reflects a longing to escape self-consciousness and to live in the moment : ‘ He was for ever dashing off , afraid he might be missing something round the corner — another party , an evening at the Jazz Club , a drink on the Soho circuit . ’ |