Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the [noun sg] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wealthy ladies , doing a little charitable slumming , as well as a few shopkeepers ' wives , bought the pretty baby clothes , and the doll she had dressed went for a fabulous price , to be given to some little girl more fortunate than those for whom the money was being raised . |
| 2 | A DC may reference up to 29 modules ( note that you should have a maximum of one package on any DC , to allow for successful approval ) and , at the time of approval , all referenced modules must be contained within the package through which the work is being carried out . |
| 3 | They were the framework through which the region was being administered . |
| 4 | The 63-year-old head of Pembridge Investments , through which the bid is being mounted says , ‘ rule number one in this business is : the more luxurious the luncheon rooms at headquarters , the more inefficient the business ’ . |
| 5 | His friends have also suggested that he would be willing to sell on a stake in MK Trafford Holdings , the Isle of Man-based company through which the bid is being made , in order to raise cash for the deal . |
| 6 | A close associate of Knighton said that one option being considered was to sell on part of his Isle of Man holding company , M K Trafford , through which the offer is being made . |
| 7 | Certain decisions may thwart the very purpose for which the decision is being made . |
| 8 | The net interest accrued since the last ex dividend date is determined as follows : where AI = net accrued interest , N xc = number of days between the ex dividend date and the coupon payment date ( typically 37 days for UK government bonds ) , N xt = number of days between the ex dividend date and the date for which the calculation is being made . |
| 9 | The Hard Copy Manager may edit the configuration file to allocate more room in the hard copy directory , or to reduce the minimum fill mark of the volumes , or the manager may reduce the number of charge codes for which the run is being made ; the manager may make both adjustments if necessary . |
| 10 | In artificial selection , the chosen end , for which the race is being fitted , does not elicit the variation being selected . |
| 11 | The choice between these ways will depend upon the purpose for which the analysis is being made . |
| 12 | — Tell the reader something about the context from which the quotation was taken , to indicate the background against which the quotation is being used . |
| 13 | After the weekend , the Unionist Whips decided that they had taken things far enough , having wasted an entire week of parliamentary time and given their supporters a sign of the vigour with which the fight was being waged . |
| 14 | I understand the reservations expressed by hon. Members on both sides of the House about the speed with which the Bill is being enacted . |
| 15 | Books and pamphlets directed at children and parents , conferences and public meetings , together with the formation of influential pressure groups , all testified to the seriousness with which the issue was being treated . |
| 16 | The company want to be satisfied about the conditions under which the lift is being undertaken and may wish to charge additional premium to delete this exclusion . |
| 17 | These changes , in the piecemeal fashion in which the Act is being implemented , will come into force in September 1993 and have already led to what Adrian Randall , finance director of the Cancer Research Campaign , calls , ‘ some howlers ’ . |
| 18 | It was soon apparent that many of the audience were critical of the way in which the law is being administered . |
| 19 | Well I think the first thing is , we have to bring out into the open the way in which the law is being misused . |
| 20 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 21 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 22 | One might suggest that the vibrancy in the Philippine health movement is a measure of the critical nature of the struggle but I could argue that it is a product of the manner in which the struggle is being waged . |
| 23 | ‘ We must accept the fact that this is an age in which the cloth is being unwoven … ’ |
| 24 | A new era of austerity starts in April 1994 , and the next 12 months looks like an all-too-brief inter-regnum in which the economy is being given a chance to grow again before the tax blows begin to fall . |
| 25 | This may find support in the fact that most of the confusions in terminology are found in what might be called the ‘ editorial ’ parts of the texts , in which the context is being briefly introduced before the decision of the master is quoted . |
| 26 | The level of difficulty of an investigation should be appropriate to the module in which the investigation is being carried out . |
| 27 | For example , all of us have a stake , or an objective interest , in a healthy environment but we may not be aware of the ways in which the environment is being polluted to the detriment of our health . |
| 28 | For example , the European network Eurostep transmits training programmes by satellite but students can interact with what they see by asking questions or raising points for discussion using a voice telephone link to the studio from which the programme is being transmitted . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 30 | If the initiating member or his client has decided that the exclusive sell situation will be of interest only to certain countries , then the Investment Overview text should still be distributed to all Network members but the covering memorandum should clearly identify those Network members to whom the material is being sent for information purposes only . |