Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You react like one when you burn the toast , so why should n't you react like one when you are pitching for a new account ? |
| 2 | If you are pitching for an account , appearing on television or radio , making a significant speech , always have a company Gofer with you . |
| 3 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 4 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 5 | In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer . |
| 6 | Here , the intergranular pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement leaving only leached porosity , and the sonic log displays a very clear downward-decreasing porosity profile in the uppermost unit of oolitic grainstone ( Fig. 18 ) . |
| 7 | In the second well , however , the sonic log indicates that the upper unit is much tighter and the core descriptions suggest that the pores have been filled by an anhydrite cement . |
| 8 | Who will pay compensation if one operators ' trains are delayed by a breakdown of a train by another operator ? |
| 9 | Now the cottage displays its original circular brick bread oven which , at Withern , had been hidden behind a Victorian cast-iron fireplace . |
| 10 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 11 | Ms Plouviez commented : ‘ The hoard must have been hidden by a wealthy family around 1,600 years ago . |
| 12 | THE cache of Semtex explosive and suspected bomb making equipment discovered on Hampstead Heath in London may have been hidden by an IRA cell for a bombing attack , it emerged yesterday , writes Terry Kirby . |
| 13 | ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money . |
| 14 | Old Mahu , the gatekeeper who had slept on the night of Mertseger 's disappearance , had been dismissed without a pension , but that action had done nothing to mollify the general 's conscience . |
| 15 | Upton won their first game since the opening day of the season when they routed Winnington Park for 64 the season 's lowest score with groundsman Alex Kegg taking 4–18 after Upton had been dismissed for a modest 128 . |
| 16 | And yet that part of the interview could have been dismissed with a laugh in five seconds . |
| 17 | Saturday was sunny and bright , and any claim that the match would be settled by tomorrow evening would have been dismissed with a scornful cackle . |
| 18 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 19 | Complaints about the Middlesbrough mosque and procedures for funerals held there have been dismissed as a ‘ complete misunderstanding ’ by Muslim community leaders . |
| 20 | Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel announced on Aug. 27 that 13 police generals had been dismissed in a reorganization of the SAP . |
| 21 | The book had been published in March 1990 , and the case against Hamid had previously been dismissed by a civil court in May 1991 . |
| 22 | Appeal lost AN APPEAL against a decision by Ynys Mn Borough Council to refuse planning permission for the change of use of a building at Brackendene , Llanfair NB , to a riding school has been dismissed by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 23 | AN APPEAL against a decision by Ynys Mn Borough Council to refuse planning permission for the change of use of a building at Brackendene , Llanfair NB to a riding school has been dismissed by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 24 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 25 | John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies . |
| 26 | Richard Crossman , for one , in 1965 lamented , ‘ How much more humane and imaginative our post-war reconstruction would have proved if government departments had been invigorated by an influx of experts with special knowledge , new ideas and a sympathy for the Government 's domestic and foreign policies ’ .3– George Brown 's National Plan of 1965 represented a belated attempt to recapture the ground perceived to have been lost since the war ended . |
| 27 | With the threat of relegation looming again , the loss of the ground , and the millstone around my neck of a team of asthmatic pine martens with the collective brain power of a kiwi fruit , the pressures on me are building to a frightening pitch . |
| 28 | ( In practice , the differences are not that great : " presidential wars " have been waged without a congressional declaration of war , while in Britain a government taking military action abroad will seek the consent of Parliament . ) |
| 29 | Defeated presidential candidates Ion Ratiu ( Christian Democratic National Peasants ' Party — CDNPP ) and Radu Campeanu ( National Liberal Party — NLP ) listed irregularities in the process and complained that the campaign had been waged in an atmosphere of violence ; both , however , stated their intention to participate in the new parliament . |
| 30 | The driver , Patsy Gillespie , who was also killed , was described by the IRA as a " collaborator " for having carried out construction work for the security forces , and had been coerced into a similar operation previously at the Fort George Army base in the city . |