Example sentences of "[was/were] missing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pauline rings up last week , sent me a fax er with the schedule on and there was the seven O one Os were missing off it so I rang up and said , you know , we 've not got any schedule on these two bearings Pauline . |
| 2 | I remember visiting the home of a radio producer , and all the doors were missing except the front and back ones ! |
| 3 | One Sunday evening they were missing at bedtime , and Hindley ordered me angrily to lock the front door . |
| 4 | Six of the ‘ Quins were missing for various reasons . |
| 5 | The anthropometric measures were missing for 11 women . |
| 6 | ‘ He was one of the students who rented the Pitt house in Church Street , they were missing for a while . |
| 7 | one great sporting event that is changing is the Le mans 24 hour race … many of the great names were missing over the weekend … but thankfully one lives … |
| 8 | Now to see how many of them were missing in London . |
| 9 | Though Benedict 's austerity and reforming zeal were missing in Suger , his twelfth-century counterpart , there was perhaps a similar commitment to abstract political principle , to the notion of undivided imperial or royal power . |
| 10 | At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more were missing in the Romanian town of Focsani , 160 km north-east of Bucharest , after an earthquake struck on May 30 . |
| 11 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 12 | But Labour 's Alan Milburn said the NHS was suffering because of Tory cutbacks and essential services were missing in the town . |
| 13 | He had in his background two things which were missing from Fisher 's background . |
| 14 | Two pairs of hands were missing from the dutiful applause that greeted his speech . |
| 15 | One or two books were missing from the study shelves ; perhaps guests had simply borrowed them and taken them to their rooms . |
| 16 | The burgundy skirt was smeared with grime and buttons were missing from her gaping blouse . |
| 17 | although many famous names were missing from the register : notably Moffatt , Nadin , Legrand ( already sure of retaining his crown and recovering from a knee operation ) , Rabatou , Godoffe , Cortijo and Edlinger . |
| 18 | The man 's shako had a red , white and blue cockade , and some of the shako 's overlapping brass plates were missing from its leather chin-strap . |
| 19 | It claimed that not 325 objects but 463 objects were missing from the museum . |
| 20 | On 3 August 1989 officers pursuing inquiries on behalf of the P.C.A. also visited Warwick Crown Court and found that the original interview notes regarding the appellant 's case were missing from the court file . |
| 21 | If you were missing from the house overnight , I would be worried . |
| 22 | The great double doors of the palace had been smashed inwards by a hammerblow from an American Civil War vintage sixty-five pounder naval gun , which the rebels had somehow recovered from the sunken Atlanta , transporting it on an ox-drawn cart since the wheels were missing from its carriage axles . |
| 23 | ‘ And when you discovered Nicola and David Parkin were missing from the party , you did n't go down to the office again ? ’ |
| 24 | I suspected small sums were missing from my purse . |
| 25 | The green paperweight and the blue glass cat were missing from the chest-top . |
| 26 | Shannon ( 1951 ) demonstrated that there is over 50% redundancy in the English language by investigating the ability of readers to predict what letters were missing from words . |
| 27 | Declarations were missing from 15 of the 40 theses , and ten recorded no consultations ( 40% ) . |
| 28 | On Boxing Day , three actors were missing from the matinée performance of The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| 29 | Large sums of money were missing from the business , and while his colleagues now realised that her father was ill — and obviously had n't deliberately intended to commit any kind of fraud — nevertheless , the money had had to be replaced as quickly as possible . |
| 30 | But the £2,500 suite and other items were missing from the load delivered in January . |