Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The date on which they were re-charged was in 1973 and was used as a pretext to deprive them of the right to be tried by a jury . |
| 2 | You deprived me of the chance to be there for him , and for my mother , when he was dying , because there were n't any jobs going in radio in Johannesburg at the time , so I had to go to Durban . |
| 3 | The whole Godhead is involved in the rescue and restoration of mankind , and so we read of Paul giving thanks over Christians , for ‘ God chose you from the beginning to be saved ’ . |
| 4 | John would have heard enough of you on the phone to be convinced that it was a erm right for you to have a chat with , could |
| 5 | ‘ I think I ought to take you to the farmhouse to be seen to — that iss , if I can carry you . ’ |
| 6 | If you are cutting from a severed stem , take it with you to the stock to be budded , or if you are taking a number of buds , get the stem into a deep can of water at once and use it as soon as possible . |
| 7 | At the end of the day 's work we layered the clocks between blankets in the wheelbarrow , and trundled them into the garage to be packed . |
| 8 | It provides them with the chance to be ‘ centre stage ’ and thus profoundly influence the delivery of care to mentally disordered people , and voluntary organizations have the additional advantage that they need only expand at their own pace , developing those areas which they know have the greatest need . |
| 9 | I think it 's from the organization 's point of view , from our statement of purpose , business plan , yeah , we do want people to achieve certain things , and therefore we provide them with the training to be able to do that . |
| 10 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 11 | It was now too much at home with her for the response to be triggered . |
| 12 | diverting attention from his hopelessness , while helping the group to support him vis-a-vis the child to be helped — not by recounting their own success stories but by recognising what support potential he might already have , buried as it was but ready to be drawn out by support from others . |
| 13 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 14 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 15 | The precocity displayed by Ypres and Ghent in securing a candidate favourable to their industrial future was not to be imitated in the rest of France in the twelfth century ; still , other rulers , particularly those of Champagne , learned from it of the profit to be derived from allying with the increasingly powerful mercantile or industrial classes . |
| 16 | If fact it 's it 's I found it in the past to be a welcome very welcome break from the atmosphere because you ca n't hang around in in the dining hall without talking a Green Party . |
| 17 | Make an extra portion of salad if you are eating salad that evening , and leave it in the fridge to be collected as you leave for work in the morning . |
| 18 | In order to copy existing artwork onto film , cut some drafting film to size ( allowing plenty of room as a border ) and place it over the artwork to be copied , perhaps Sellotaping it in place over the page . |
| 19 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 20 | They arrived with a flourish , laid the cases on the floor , opened them and dragged them around the room to be oh 'd and ah 'd over by the guests . |
| 21 | Not only does this provide us with the content to be taught , but it also lays the foundation on which final assessment can be based ; however , before we can devise our objectives , two further collections of information are needed . |