Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finance for the station is being provided by the new Commercial Bank for Social Development . |
| 2 | The last instant of the flattening of the cushion , we are inclined to think , will be simultaneous with the beginning of a causal circumstance for the cushion 's being other than flattened . |
| 3 | Bad news for shareholders is that the dividend for the year is being halved to 5.25p per share . |
| 4 | No one knows how big the contribution was and the price paid for the electricity is being kept secret . |
| 5 | Staff for the units are being provided by reducing the number of staff per pupil at existing nursery schools and units in the county . |
| 6 | But campaigners for the Glosters are being advised not to give up their fight |
| 7 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 8 | 3.2 Where the Landlord the Tenant or the Guarantor for the time being are two or more persons obligations expressed or implied to be made by or with such party are deemed to be by or with such persons jointly and severally |
| 9 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 10 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 11 | The privately held company 's main concern for the time being is , it says , to get the toolkit on to as many platforms as it can , and is eagerly offering itself up to OEMs — Sun being the prime target of its attention , with three million ONC licencees under its belt . |
| 12 | Here , the owner for the time being is recorded . |
| 13 | Since the QT Meeting on the 7th has indicated that she is feeling a little better and for the time being is willing to continue as the Teachers ' Representative , however , it is possible that in the future she may require assistance to carry out her duties . |
| 14 | The problem of bridging the gap between early experience and later personality has for the time being been shelved , and questions are being asked instead about what is indeed the logically prior problem : whether and in what way infants of various ages are affected by specified environmental happenings . |
| 15 | or such greater percentage ( which may be 100 per cent. ) as may for the time being be prescribed . |
| 16 | My classes will for the time being be taken by other teachers , all of whom have said that they will look after them until I am ready to have them back . |
| 17 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 18 | Nigel Short , who is taking a break in Greece , has already expressed his support for the contest 's being held in Manchester . |
| 19 | At the time of writing , alternative main frame systems for the group are being considered . |
| 20 | This interesting museum is only open from May to September , and an alternative site for the collection is being discussed . |
| 21 | By contrast , the metaphysical question of what the preconditions are for the world 's being accessible to thought was uppermost for Plato and Aristotle . |
| 22 | When foundations for the house were being dug — the house was built for the Marquis Litta in the sixteenth-century — Roman mosaics were discovered . |
| 23 | Thirteen others arrested during the ferment are being brought before the courts in two batches . |
| 24 | AN escaped prisoner known as The Crusher was being hunted last night by police probing a nightwatchman 's murder . |
| 25 | By the '70s , when Freddie Martin was playing for a whisky company 's office team in Perth , his successors between the sticks were being subjected to intense TV scrutiny . |
| 26 | In its weak form , the clausal hypothesis is that some partial and preliminary hypotheses about the meaning of a clause will be developed as information about the clause is being taken in , although the definitive decision about clausal meaning could only be taken once the clause had been fully perceived . |
| 27 | Tessa grew testy about the line 's being used all the time , and said that the Bulgarians were the worst lovers in the Balkans , as though that were a world-known fact , like the trying nature to others of our gentle Scottish weather . |
| 28 | By the time they arrive at Maidstone , there fore , most have settled into the routines imposed by a long sentence of imprisonment and most do at least feel that some progress through the system is being achieved . |
| 29 | Very very very briefly Chairman , erm first of all you can see in paragraph two point three and you see the matter that 's being erm the subject of discussion previously erm there was n't to be an issues report as such , but er Stragg itself the advisory group did feel that it would be useful that er er a leaflet be prepared and distributed erm you I do n't think Chairman would have seen it , but hot off the presses is being erm with us this morning er an an and only delivered this morning are some copies of th the leaflet that we have now erm prepared er you will have seen that in draft form Chairman and members of Strang will have seen that draft form so er both Stragg members and other members of the Committee if they would like to take a copy away with them , that there are a number here , but they will be er given wide distribution later on . |
| 30 | Going back to the your mining background , erm after the Strike were were your father and grandfather members of both the Nottingham Miners Associa Association and the industrial union ? |