Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] be [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FAMOUS Spirit of Liverpool statue at Liverpool 's Walker Art Gallery needs repairing after being eroded by the elements . |
| 2 | ‘ Daahling , it 's David , I 'm calling you from behind a tree , ’ he cooed into his ministerial mobile , refusing to be daunted by the haughty stares of the opera world . |
| 3 | Refusing to be intimidated by the sheer size of him , Leonora glared up into his face . |
| 4 | Is it true that , while refusing to be interrogated by the House and on television , he is carrying out government by press conference , as he is holding one tomorrow ? |
| 5 | She browsed among the Idylls , trying to still her heart , her shaking , used body — looking to be soothed by the rhythm , the romance … . |
| 6 | As well as flower planting , there 's plenty of routine grass cutting and strimming to be done by the inmates . |
| 7 | There 's been a lot of people in the village signing a petition and erm shouting about , but these people are going to come and , as the lady has said , they are going to pay for their erm rent , they 're going to pay their Poll Tax , they 're going to be obliged by the law to pay their Poll Tax . |
| 8 | Kirov realized that he was going to be pestered by the man until he made some sort of complimentary comment . |
| 9 | At the same time it was made clear that British foreign policy was not going to be dictated by the whims of one small country . |
| 10 | Those involved in private care should arrange among themselves how they could be represented in the local planning process because if they are going to be covered by the planning arrangements then natural justice suggests that they should have an input in to the planning process . |
| 11 | Build time is around 500 hours , Rotorway claim , and a flight training programme is going to be run by the company for constructors covering flight technique and maintenance . |
| 12 | These proposals are , however , made much more complex by the existence of old long-stay wards in hospitals whose main function , quite clearly , is social care , yet which for many years are going to be run by the Health Service . |
| 13 | The size of investment in the hardware , the software and all the add-on facilities is going to be determined by the size of your firm . |
| 14 | Right , so as we increase the labour ou er input by one unit the change in total product , right , is going to be given by the marginal product , right , so so quite simply the marginal products of labour . |
| 15 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 16 | If " some change is being made we need to look into the viewpoints of all those who are going to be affected by the change . |
| 17 | So far we have only considered diversification within a national market where the stock market and the shares listed therein are going to be affected by the same macro- and microeconomic forces and developments . |
| 18 | But there is a question there is a p another point here that having got to the position we 're in , erm does it How much are we going to be affected by the extent of the commitments ? |
| 19 | Tim Cornish , as Film and Television Officer for South East Arts , how are you going to be affected by the new film categories ? |
| 20 | ‘ He 's going to be tired by the time the plane comes . ’ |
| 21 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has on how the nuclear weapons in Ukraine are going to be controlled by the Soviet Union following the independence vote . |
| 23 | a very low base , and that is going to be used by the Home Secretary when , when he , he , he puts the cash limited budget together next year . |
| 24 | Er and its music 's going to be provided by the great Phil Kelsall , the resident organist at the Tower Ballroom Blackpool . |
| 25 | Would patients who recover from their ailments while waiting to be seen by the doctor please vacate your seat for those less fortunate — there are still plenty of us left . |
| 26 | They were Jonathan 's children , sleeping in the workhouse , waiting to be killed by the tragic compulsion of their father . |
| 27 | With its literal and figurative local colour , it is viewed as an intrinsically picturesque scene waiting to be recorded by the western artist . |
| 28 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 29 | Putting two and two together , junior quite rightly expects there to be polecat with young hanging around post number seven , waiting to be petted by the children and providing the adults with a photo opportunity . |
| 30 | Once you 've cocked the gun the power 's all there , just waiting to be released by the squeeze of a finger . |