Example sentences of "be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glands on its face are bestowing the cat 's personal scent , making its owner smell pleasanter and more familiar . |
| 2 | If Lithuania are delayed the match could be ruled as a void fixture and that 's something the FAI do n't dare even think about . |
| 3 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 4 | Roy Hardiman , the railway 's General Manager outlined the Gala arrangements ; ‘ Our two Hunslets , Holy War and Maid Marian will be working the passenger services between Llanuwchllyn and Bala Station and at present we are finalising the visit of two locos from the South of England . |
| 5 | Canada in the Spring is already planned and Roy and his wife , Ann , are finalising the details of what promises to be an exciting six-week sojourn . |
| 6 | It is I who am handling the sale of the lease on the office premises . |
| 7 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |
| 8 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 9 | Its Committee for Art and Design , for most of that period under the Chairmanship of David Bethel , the Director of Leicester Polytechnic , has been pursuing the Council 's policy of achieving a balance between the main studies , on the one hand , and the history of art and design and complementary studies on the other . |
| 10 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 11 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 12 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 13 | Gloucestershire Social Services department , which will be responsible for overseeing the private school , say if new pupils are enrolled the school will be subject to detailed inspections regarding the welfare of the children . |
| 14 | Most of Eurotunnel 's shares are held and traded on the Paris market these days and there is fear that the company will end up issuing shares as full or part payment to Transmanche Link , the group of 10 contractors which are building the tunnel . |
| 15 | ‘ The two I particularly remember are building the new stand at Ascot and the construction of Central Point in London . ’ |
| 16 | The team are building the properties on Hoskins Way , Homerton Road , Pallister Park . |
| 17 | Construction are building the Banbury bypass section of the M 40 . |
| 18 | She had been to see the inspector in charge of her father 's murder case . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been to see the dog , ’ Anabelle replied , and told him about taking away the dog 's food . |
| 21 | The aim , then , has been to see the problem afresh , and a first reformulation of it was offered in Chapter iii . |
| 22 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 23 | On one occasion after they had been to see the film Odd Man Out , thick fog prevented Bobby returning home to Blackheath . |
| 24 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 25 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been to see the family ; I 've kept away until now … |
| 27 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |
| 28 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You have been to see the corpse ? ’ she asked . |
| 30 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |