Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 2 | ‘ If the sums he mentioned are to be believed , it puts a most terrible responsibility on my shoulders . ’ |
| 3 | The cases to which Cooke P. referred are to the like effect . |
| 4 | Coming from a police family and married to a police officer , her inculcated beliefs were such that the alternative concepts which the sociology of law posed were beyond acceptability . |
| 5 | The job involved being in charge of ‘ country correspondents ’ in villages scattered within 25 to 50 miles around the city , editing their weekly contributions , measuring their column-inches for payments and generally supervising the rural aspect of the newspaper . |
| 6 | However , where , as was the case with Akzo 's pricing policy , the prices charged were below average total cost ( that is , including fixed costs ) but above average variable cost , they could only be considered predatory if they were established as part of a plan to eliminate competitors . |
| 7 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |
| 8 | As these commodities had to be kept perfectly dry at all times the barges used were of the soundest construction and were always well maintained . |
| 9 | Although comparisons of fixed doses of drugs have limitations , the doses of propranolol and nifedipine used were in the middle of their therapeutic ranges . |
| 10 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 11 | The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing . |
| 12 | Bonington commented on his experiences at sea : ‘ I am not a natural sailor and found being on a very small boat without exercise very trying . |
| 13 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 14 | The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) . |
| 15 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 16 | But they only shots they encountered were from cameras . |
| 17 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 18 | The farmers visited were in Buskerud county , with five in the hill region just north of Drammen and five some 160km northwest of that city around Al , Gol , Torpo and Nesbyen . |
| 19 | The capital cost is to be financed from a local property tax . |
| 20 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
| 21 | ‘ The metal we used is from an old caravan roof which we bonded to the wood with Evostick , ’ explained Tony . |
| 22 | I do n't think the arrears , when they , when it occurred is on the report |
| 23 | Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information . |
| 24 | The price proposed was on the open market and Stuttgart was happy to offer it . |
| 25 | This seems a particularly harsh result where the person assaulted was in plain clothes , and it may be doubted whether it can be justified in principle . |
| 26 | The equipment listed was in use in 1989 for a maximum of 30 windsurf guests . |
| 27 | The accepted rate at which New York life moved was at least three factors faster than in London . |
| 28 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
| 29 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 30 | the reasons why the item involved was at the location ; |