Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not many children try solvents before the age of 11 , and it seems that the peak age for experimenting is around 13 or 14 years . |
| 2 | Talk about seeing is believing ! |
| 3 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 4 | Any part with life left in it or potential for reconditioning is set aside for cleaning and re-sale . |
| 5 | What was so shocking about Famous But Not For Singing was the sheer amount of material . |
| 6 | Among their reasons for submitting was a fear that outlawry would lead to the destruction of the church ; in February the king was already threatening to make the outlawry permanent , and in March even the archbishop had his horses seized by royal officers while he was en route from Maidstone to London . |
| 7 | One legitimate reason for panning is to follow the action ; shots of beach football , for example , will need to pan to keep up with the play . |
| 8 | The other legitimate reason for panning is to relate one part of the scene to another , a situation which can arise as a natural part of the action in this day on the beach sequence . |
| 9 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 10 | What he could do , if Ritschl thought it a plan worth pursuing was put together a book of miscellaneous bits and pieces-part literary history , part " new ideas and views " ( neue Ansichten und Aussichten ) of an as yet unspecified nature , part textual criticism . |
| 11 | The three main outlets for reselling are auctions , specialist shops , private individuals or dealers . |
| 12 | However , even if this were permitted , the necessary expertise for contracting is unlikely to be available at the local level . |
| 13 | The grand tour which I wrote to you about has been postponed until we can all come to Johannesburg for discussions . ’ |
| 14 | And my husband , although I 'm only very small and under five foot , my husband is thirteen stone and six foot two inches , so moving him about has been a great problem . |
| 15 | And sir the other strand which we 've heard a good deal about has been the nature of the vegetative screen which occurs between D thirty nine and D forty on the one hand , and land to the north of it on the other . |
| 16 | Rotation of the oxycarbonyl group about has been identified as the cause . |
| 17 | Specially worth noticing is the charming little house , built at the beginning of the sixteenth century , now the home of the only choir school in Scotland . |
| 18 | What is equally worth noticing is that Antisthenes of Rhodes was one of the historians Polybius disliked and attacked . |
| 19 | Some questions which need to be addressed are what the overall quality of memory for driving is like , what types of detail can or can not be remembered , and what variables , both psychological and environmental , are related to memory ? |
| 20 | This issue will be discussed further in Chapter 5 where the predictions of schema theory in relation to memory for driving are considered . |
| 21 | Basically , all you need to grow flowers for pressing is a window sill or even a grow-bag ! |
| 22 | One of the reasons for writing so much about growing your own plants is that not all flowers and foliage suitable for pressing are available from florists , which can considerably limit the palette of colours from which you will work . |
| 23 | Not wishing to think about dying is a natural response for those who wish to direct their care and attention to the living . |
| 24 | Some he may be hearing in future include : Thy food is such as has been breathed on by infected lungs , ( Pericles ) — useful for insulting prison cooks . |
| 25 | We support a networking approach with other specialist bodies ( 3.6 ) and would like the guidance to encourage liaison with non-governmental bodies , such as has been done in the draft PPG Note on Nature Conservation . |
| 26 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 27 | I had them all myself from the former British monopoly , the Central Electricity Generating Board , when I was the minister responsible for the day-to-day operations involved in privatising the British electricity industry : ‘ the integrity of the system ’ , the need to ensure the adequacy of contra power or ‘ vars ’ , safety considerations , the impossibility of storing electricity — all excellent points in themselves , but each fully capable of being accommodated in a competitive system such as has been invented , at least in embryo , in Britain . |
| 28 | Technology has brought speed of travel , and the almost instantaneous dissemination of information from one part of the world to another , such as has been unheard of in the history of the world . |
| 29 | The reason for timetabling is not to satisfy the Government and Opposition Front Benches , but to protect the interests of Back Benchers . |
| 30 | Many young stock for fattening are bought in the market at York from the upland farmers of Ireland , Wales , Scotland and the Pennines . |