Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large parts of West and South Middlesbrough are eaten up by the Langbaurgh and Stockton South constituencies . |
| 2 | The major galleries have few if any on their books and , as the recession deepens , and dealers like Maureen Paley are forced out of the West End , doors begin to close again for women . |
| 3 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 4 | The second half exploded when Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips and Southend goalkeeper Paul Sansome were sent off in the space of seven minutes . |
| 5 | The Swiss proved to be ferocious fighters , and in 1415 the Habsburgs were driven out of the Aargau , but although Aarau was allowed to keep the rights granted by the Habsburgs , it was soon clear to the Argovians that Swiss victory merely meant they had exchanged one landlord for another . |
| 6 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 7 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 8 | Lij Yasu is camped out in the bush with only five Abyssinians in his retinue ; while in the neighbouring villages are various messengers from the government and from provincial chiefs who dare not approach to deliver their letters for fear of the flogging with which anyone who disturbs him is threatened . |
| 9 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 10 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 11 | On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 12 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 13 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 14 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 15 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 16 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 17 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
| 18 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 19 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 20 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 21 | The Reaver Knights are made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses . |
| 22 | Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London . |
| 23 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 24 | CHILE were thrown out of the 1994 World Cup by Fifa yesterday after forcing their decisive 1990 qualifier against Brazil to be abandoned in Rio when their players walked off claiming that the Chilean goalkeeper , Roberto Rojas , had been injured by a flare . |
| 25 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
| 26 | The best IBMers were sent out in the seventies on secondments , then seen to come back into promotions . |
| 27 | It is delightful to imagine Gould being invited in among the thatched huts to watch the famous emu dance . |
| 28 | In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support . |
| 29 | Frank is driven out in the darkest darkness in Leeds , but he got a golden oppurtunity when he was selected for Drillos squad to play USA [ and Costa Rica — killers of Sweden in last WC for those who remember — my comm. ] later this month . |
| 30 | Lothar de Maizière of the CDU is sworn in at the head of a grand coalition government [ pp. 37378-80 ] . |