Example sentences of "of [be] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose I 've kind of been labelled with the Mystery Train riff … ’ |
| 2 | He must of been picked from the Conservative to stand would he ? |
| 3 | So at that time that could of been taken into the context of , or one anyway , going to the same place |
| 4 | The values of are plotted against the corresponding M i and connected by a smooth curve as shown in figure 8.5 , to give the integral distribution curve . |
| 5 | Five of eight houses offered for sale at Sanquhar Den in Forres , near Inverness , were snapped up within days of being placed on the market . |
| 6 | No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money . |
| 7 | Nobody knew how much they burrowed into one 's past , and this ignorance coupled with a fear of being rejected by the Legion was enough to make most people tell the truth . |
| 8 | Tired of being buffeted by the eddying crowd , she moved over to the wall , where a sofa seemed to dare her to sit on it . |
| 9 | This feeling of utter helplessness , of being buffeted by the whims of some other person , was new and decidedly unsettling . |
| 10 | It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles . |
| 11 | The United Kingdom was an original party to the Convention but did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Commission and Court until 1965 and then only for a three-year term which , however , has so far been regularly renewed although not without some hesitancy prompted by the embarrassment and ignominy of being condemned by the Court on a number of occasions . |
| 12 | However , there is no point investing for the long term at the risk of being caned in the short term . |
| 13 | Then once having disposed of the bogus Robert Gravier , the real Mr G. could live on his swindled millions without fear of being chased by the law or his many creditors . |
| 14 | It felt tight and hot in spite of being made of the softest combed cotton . |
| 15 | Our human dignity of being made in the image and likeness of God takes on new meaning . |
| 16 | Such examples of human misery , Pascal said , prove our greatness : ‘ It is the misery of a great lord , the wretchedness of a deposed king , ’ that reflect upon the human dignity of being made in the image of God . |
| 17 | Britain 's potential for generating wind energy , which is the highest in Europe , is in danger of being neglected by the government , according to Friends of the Earth . |
| 18 | Sometimes in the evenings she had too strong a sense of being locked into the life of the farmhouse , even with the door continuously open on the summer yard , her brother away in the fields , her mother stumbling about the place with buckets , leaning on the table or the back of a chair whenever she stood to talk . |
| 19 | Never did she want a repeat performance of being locked in the octopus grip of Ardis junior — the memory of it was giving her nightmares . |
| 20 | The navigator ( Sgt. Alexander ) , in spite of being wedged within the narrow confines of the glass nose , managed to scramble out , and descended safely by parachute . |
| 21 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 22 | Instead of being inherited by the process of Mendelian genetics , it is ‘ inherited ’ by imitation . |
| 23 | According to Gavron 's survey of ninety-six urban housewives , the feeling of being tied to the house.and isolated from meaningful social contacts is a common one for both working-class and middle-class women . |
| 24 | An auger works in much the same way , but instead of being pushed into the soil , it has a corkscrew end which can be twisted down into the earth . |
| 25 | Although one consequence of their detached status was that the Commissioners tended to be remote from the day to day process of policy formulation in the higher echelons of the Home Office , they had the advantage of being perceived by the Prison Service as providing a collective leadership in which the professional element in the service could and did play a significant part . |
| 26 | They remained , therefore , on the outskirts of the town , until , terrified of being crushed by the mob , they decided to seek refuge in the open fields , but they had hardly agreed on this when fresh ash clouds , denser than ever , overwhelmed them and brought total darkness . |
| 27 | Anyone on the verge of being clapped into the loony bin as one more pathetic case of cold coffee dementia can telephone the firm free and be saved . |
| 28 | He knew we could n't abide his ways , and he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him , so he begged for the honour of being killed by the enemy instead . ’ |
| 29 | Instead of being treated to the confrontation between the great lion Aslan and the forces of hell , we sat and watched a game of cat and mouse . |
| 30 | A major requirement of a religion then , must be that , above all , it shall be capable of a simplified , but undistorted interpretation capable of being taught to the very young in such a way that it will instil in them the stirrings of what will become their consciences , that is , they will harbour a subconscious awareness of the fundamental nature of right and wrong as these are applied to those areas of human aspirations where they are beyond dispute . |