Example sentences of "[prep] [be] behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever accused Old Blue Eyes or Mr Trump of being behind the times . |
| 2 | Police also arrested Francis Minnah , then First Vice-President , who was accused of being behind the coup attempt . |
| 3 | I do n't know why , I think it was that familiar feeling of being behind bars . |
| 4 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 5 | The Church of England 's General Synod doubts if Freemasonry and Christianity are compatible and the organization is suspected of being behind police corruption , but Royal approval is nevertheless accorded it . |
| 6 | In it , she confronted him with evidence she 'd unearthed of a conspiracy against her and accused him of being behind it . |
| 7 | The computer generated imagery and the reproduction of the various different airport locations , really did create an atmosphere of being behind the controls of a 737 . |
| 8 | They accused Islamic fundamentalists of being behind the military regime with the aim of promoting fundamentalism in the region . |
| 9 | Maj.-Gen Bantu Holomisa , the leader of the ruling Military Council in the nominally independent Transkei homeland ( whose independence was not internationally recognized ) , accused South Africa of being behind an attempt to remove him from power on Nov. 22 . |
| 10 | Everyone had to be behind the firing point , and after a final check that no one was in the danger area , the authority to fire was given . |
| 11 | Fears about the threat of more deportations in the near future are believed to be behind the resistance to the police action . |
| 12 | I find when we have to rely on others we always seem to be behind everyone else . |
| 13 | The need for information — essential if the ‘ free market ’ espoused by the government is to work — seems to be behind the pressure for publicised performance indicators , including the aggregated results of the tests which will follow the National Curriculum . |
| 14 | All God 's fear on earth used to be behind Mrs Tiller . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union was said to be behind it . |
| 16 | That incident appears to be behind the decision by golf 's ‘ Wild Thing ’ to clean up his act , and he said last night : ‘ I will check into an alcohol rehabilitation unit and return to tournament play only when I am comfortable my life is in order . ’ |
| 17 | They say that the police have not got the resources — but this game is going to be behind closed doors . ’ |
| 18 | The big surf companies have caught on to such a trend towards the plain and dark : Quicksilver is understood to be behind the Pirate Surf label , and Gotcha runs a second , more cultish label called More Core Division . |
| 19 | He went on to add that disgruntled acid house partygoers were thought to be behind the vandalism . |
| 20 | An insider said : ‘ Remember , in an ideal world special forces have to be behind the lines before the first shot is fired . |
| 21 | THE Mafia godfather believed to be behind the murder of two crimebusting judges was arrested yesterday . |
| 22 | You ought to be behind bars , that 's where you ought to be ! |
| 23 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 24 | Yet the heavy burden of taxation is held , in some quarters , to be behind the late twentieth-century failure of the British economy . |
| 25 | Even the Serbs of Serbia claim to be behind it and are willing , they say , to see the Bosnian Serbs isolated . |
| 26 | Erm , clearly you need to have a detrusor pressure in order to be behind that flow , and if this pressure is less than fifty then I think it 's unlikely that there 's much in the way of obstruction . |
| 27 | To have to do what someone else says , and to be behind bolted doors is just unacceptable to me . |
| 28 | When it is pointed out that a number of Labour programmes have been markedly radical , as in 1945 and 1983 , then it is claimed that the leaders have failed to be behind them and give them their solid backing and support . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've never wanted to be behind a microphone , though , have you ? |
| 30 | The same concern was assumed to be behind a White Paper introduced in Parliament in December 1989 outlining proposed restrictions on " political activities " by religious groups . |