Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain combinations of landscape elements that I tend to search for were in short supply . |
| 2 | Further support for the view that there does not exist a principle such as Woolwich contend for is to be found in statutory provisions for the recovery of imposts which should not have been paid . |
| 3 | The proportion of the total variance such correlations account for is of course small and their importance should be judged accordingly . |
| 4 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |
| 5 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 6 | Well we did at the beginning , cos he said apologizing for being in that position |
| 7 | Also popular are almond-stuffed olives ( although I always think the nuts suffer for being in the pickling brine ) and those filled with tiny pieces of anchovy , which balance the flavour of the fruits beautifully . |
| 8 | He finds it difficult to cope after being at the top as a player through natural talent . |
| 9 | I long for being in real contact with them . |
| 10 | There 's a sort of nasty perverted curiosity in me — I mean , all the women he 's had and all the things he must know about being in bed . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been painting about being in love with Mary for the past thirty years . |
| 12 | The kinds of jobs being looked for were within Information technology or education , the latter almost certainly also within an IT field . |
| 13 | Possibly in answer a man got drunk and was pinched for being in charge of a horse and cart the while . |
| 14 | Lawyers representing the 51 who died when the Marchioness pleasure boat sank after being in collision with a dredger on the Thames , have given the owners of the vessels until tomorrow evening to agree to pay full compensation - estimated at between £6m and £7m . |
| 15 | Whether they will look after our type of clients in the way they are used to being looked after is of course a different question . |
| 16 | After Yusopov 's reply — which he found despite being in terrible time pressure — the Russian was always likely to escape with a draw . |
| 17 | erm The national figure seems to be , the national figure of food poisoning cases this year looks like being in excess of sixty thousand . |
| 18 | They have come into being over thousands of years . |
| 19 | The end of active hostilities between Chad and Libya in September 1987 ( see pp. 35876-79 ) , and the formal declaration of Oct. 3 , 1988 , that their war was at an end ( see p. 36256 ) , made it possible for the Habre regime to pursue what it described as a policy of " national reconciliation " with the many groups and factions which had come into being during the country 's protracted civil war . |
| 20 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 21 | Perhaps most significantly of all , the Irish Free State , now the Republic of Ireland , has come into being as an independent sovereign state distinct from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | In two waves , one in late 1859 , the other in early 1860 , representatives of the various provincial committees which had come into being as a result of the Nazimov Rescript came to St Petersburg to discuss their ideas with the Editing Commissions . |
| 23 | An easy symbiosis had come into being between the cultivated pagan and the educated Christian . |
| 24 | There are in London , for example , Cantonese , Ethiopian , Portuguese and Spanish congregations which have come into being through church planting by a strong congregation from one of the denominations . |
| 25 | Unless the pollsters are confounded , the 217 grant-maintained schools that have come into being since 1989 will be returned to former local authority masters . |
| 26 | A whole succession of international agreements have come into being since then , including the Montreal Protocol to phase out the manufacture and use of ozone-depleting chemicals ( such as CFCs ) and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , which has played a significant role in helping to protect some of the world 's rarest flora and fauna . |
| 27 | The Treaty of Rome had been signed without her in March 1957 ; the EEC had come into being in January 1958 ; and de Gaulle had been recalled to power in France to solve the Algerian crisis in June that year . |
| 28 | The rejection of both the trust analogy and the doctrine of agency leaves unexplained the situation where a new State has come into being in accordance with a treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 29 | In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society . |
| 30 | The enthusiasm of official propaganda derived partly from the triumphalism inherent in a regime which had come into being by dint of a military victory , and partly from the need to conceal , or divert attention away from domestic problems . |