Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 2 | After being passed from one civil servant to another , an embarrassed underling finally admitted ‘ he only wished he knew ’ confessing ‘ the trouble is , we have no control over it up here ; it 's all being done down in London . ’ |
| 3 | The dotted lines show the expected mean level of the variables , and the levels at which there is a 5% and 1% probability of being exceeded by one or more bins somewhere within the whole periodogram . |
| 4 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 5 | An ‘ idea-meme ’ might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another . |
| 6 | This is n't a deficit in response inhibition as such because the animals never develop a history of being reinforced in one arm of the maze in preference to any other . |
| 7 | Items in suspense and transmission are funds in the process of being transferred from one customer 's account to another . |
| 8 | However , in the process of being passed from one office to another Joyce was making contacts who might prove of some use . |
| 9 | The Doctor ordered Howard to stop the car at the top of the road leading down into the city , weighing up the risks of being attacked by one side or the other . |
| 10 | He was reluctant to take the post for two reasons : he felt that the salary was not high enough , and he did not like the idea of being confined to one place even for six months of the year . |
| 11 | The defeated Arab states , fearful of being picked off one by one , insisted on indirect and collective negotiations . |
| 12 | It had the added distinction of being edited at one time by Nelson Mandela , the ANC leader now in prison . |
| 13 | Seventeen year old Ritu Vasudeva spoke of how her family sheltered in their house for a month for fear of being taken to one of Saddam 's guest hotels , then they had to forge exit papers to enable them to escape . |
| 14 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 15 | Now , however , the Treaty of Rome , which Mrs Thatcher once called a ‘ charter of economic liberty ’ , is in danger of being transformed into one of central economic and political planning . |
| 16 | Not all of it could be joined together prior to delivery as size precluded it from being transported in one piece . |
| 17 | In being trusted with one delicate mission after another ( the Diplomatic Service Appeals Board , compensation for the wrongfully imprisoned Guildford Four , the grievances of the former M.I.5 officer , Colin Wallace ) Calcutt was bidding fair to become the chief of this tribe in the nineties . |
| 18 | After some brief editing , Reference vinyl master discs are made on the company 's own lathe before being sent to one of the few remaining specialist pressing plants in the US . |
| 19 | They were made to wash their hands and faces in a rain barrel outside , before being allowed into one of the empty warehouses . |
| 20 | That must mean that whatever we are involved in is conditioned by one overall fact : whatever we do is either to the service or dis service of Christ . |
| 21 | The amount was to be fixed for one year . |
| 22 | A : what have you got to do this afternoon B : oh I 'm * going to repair the child bar A : what do you mean CHILD bar B : uh it 's er metal bar goes acr — has to be fixed from one side of the car I mean from one side of the back seat to the other for the BABY seat to go on A : AH … |
| 23 | But whilst these languages can be offered as subjects under the National Curriculum , it seems that the denial of an opportunity to be taught in one of these subjects across the curriculum would not per se be unlawful under the Act . |
| 24 | The fact that Balboa caused the Ocean to become a Spanish lake , in effect , would come to be recognized as one of the most important stratagems in the development of the modern world . |
| 25 | There are three contentious issues in assisted conception : age limits in eligibility for services ; the maximum allowable number of stimulation cycles to be tried in each woman ; and the maximum allowable number of eggs or embryos to be transferred in one cycle . |
| 26 | So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another . |
| 27 | This is commonly done where information needs to be transferred from one computer to another as in banking or for the operation of a fax machine . |
| 28 | If a vehicle needs to be temporarily substituted for one of the operator 's authorized vehicles or a vehicle needs to be transferred from one operating centre to another the LA does not need to be informed . |
| 29 | Instead we can design a computer which has as its instruction set a set of primitive operations ( or micro-instructions ) , to cause control signals to be Sent to the various parts of the computer , and data to be transferred from one processor register to another . |
| 30 | For a selected core , employment guarantees are very much an informal bargain as Japanese labour law forbids work contracts to be extended beyond one year . |