Example sentences of "[be] [verb] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 2 | ( ii ) County court staff should be again reminded of the urgency with which the documentation of contempt cases should be undertaken and of the need to comply strictly with the rules and that service of committal orders should always be made personally on the contemnor . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) Court staff should once again be reminded of the urgency with which the documentation of contempt cases should be undertaken and of the need to comply strictly with the rules . |
| 4 | provide a full and clear brief of the work to be undertaken and of the deliverables . |
| 5 | This was the first systematic survey of stone circles ever to be undertaken and in it Stukeley attempted to prove that the Druids , whom he believed built the circles , were the forefathers of Christianity . |
| 6 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 7 | We would like to guarantee that our flights will never be delayed and in fact the vast majority of flights do depart on time . |
| 8 | Of course , records are there to be broken and with a little luck , well , who knows ? |
| 9 | After talks with BR 's Chairman , Peter Parker , we agreed that the sensible way forward was for a new company , British Rail Investments , to be formed and for the subsidiaries to be transferred to the private sector , with the proceeds going to British Rail . |
| 10 | This applies not only to individuals but to companies where the directors can be examined and to partnerships where the partners can be examined . |
| 11 | However , it is the processes involved in the public debate which should be examined and in which rhetoric forms an important component . |
| 12 | Software will now be developed for the distribution of data in which individual , family , household and community level data can all be examined and in which relationships between levels can be analysed . |
| 13 | I went and sat in the churchyard and wept for Mrs Mitchell and Nelly and prayed for myself to be forgiven and for them to be looked after . |
| 14 | Every individual and group member of the Society shall be entitled to one vote for each vacancy to be filled and in the case of two or more candidates receiving an equal number of votes , the Chairman of the Meeting shall have a casting vote . |
| 15 | Every individual and group member of the Society shall be entitled to one vote for each vacancy to be filled and in the case of two or more candidates receiving an equal number of votes , the Chairman of the Meeting shall have a casting vote . |
| 16 | Every member of the Society shall be entitled to one vote for each vacancy to be filled and in the case of two or more candidates receiving an equal number of votes , the Chairman of the Meeting shall have a casting vote . |
| 17 | Sneezing and fluent , bland coryza ; the mucous membranes of the nose may be swollen and after a day or two the coryza may extend to the larynx with a hard cough . |
| 18 | Outside cowbells can be heard and in the distance a group of Masai enters the landscape driving their animals ; despite the fierce colours of their robes , completely at home in this brown and ochre world . |
| 19 | Both Reports proposed the establishment of national labour exchanges at which all unemployed workmen would be registered and to which vacancies would be notified . |
| 20 | As in the case of personal representatives , the company 's articles will probably provide that any restrictions on transferability apply on any application to be registered and to any transfer by him and these restrictions may handicap the trustee in obtaining the best price on a sale of the shares , particularly if the articles confer pre-emption rights . |
| 21 | Tonight we are entitled to ask how many more times those forecasts will be revised and in which direction . |
| 22 | A possession to be treasured and for some a reminder of better times . |
| 23 | From wherever the initiative originates , the tenants must be consulted and in addition have certain rights affecting the transfer — hence the phrase ‘ pick a landlord ’ . |
| 24 | One can speculate that this boy might some day join one of the rebellious students who fight the establishment in an astonishingly infantile way , expecting at the same time not to be punished and to be granted full amnesty for their transgressions , just as a small child would expect from an indulgent parent . |
| 25 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 26 | The Special Claims Control squads also harass women directly by threats that their benefit will be stopped and with soft talk about men sponging off women . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , a ship was sent to America so that the story could be checked and in 1810 , three years after his being cast away on Sombrero , Jeffrey returned at last and set foot in Portsmouth . |
| 28 | If the students are workers , for instance , not raw material , then it makes sense to ask what products they ought to be producing and for whom ; it is possible to work back from this to a process for delivering those products . |
| 29 | What should be taught and to whom ? |
| 30 | In the course of talk our actions can be redefined and in the process are transformed . |