Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the reasons for being passed over or failing a job interview will not be properly explained . |
| 2 | The Sheffield Wednesday striker was livid at finding himself back on the bench just 28 minutes after being sent on as a second-half substitute at Norwich on Saturday . |
| 3 | A BEWILDERED 10-year-old boy was left to wander the streets for hours after being turned away from a police-run sports centre . |
| 4 | Another casualty who bravely acted out that old maxim ‘ the show must go on ’ was ROSS — ex-postman and avid raver — from K-CLASS who after falling through a plate glass window whilst horsing about with some mates in a local Liverpool pub , gritted his teeth , 30 stitches notwithstanding , and gamely did his bit on Dance Energy less than 24 hours after being sewn up . |
| 5 | Just three hours after being sworn in to his new job on January 1st as governor of Rhode Island , the gravelly-voiced Mr Sundlun ordered the closure of 45 small banks and credit unions . |
| 6 | I , I like the idea they 're gon na raise six hundred pound wherever they can , then all the money they raise , they can sell the books for is going back into the community . |
| 7 | Some Sutton pupils expressed worries about being picked on by the ‘ bigger ones ’ and were concerned about going into the same playground . |
| 8 | Burrows is out for three months after being stretchered off in Tuesday night 's Coca-Cola Cup clash with Crystal Palace . |
| 9 | He has been banned for six months after being sent off in the Royal Liver League final replay against Donegal . |
| 10 | Number eight forward Ken Tuta finds himself out of bounds after being sent off along with Portadown centre Michael Daly in yesterday 's match . |
| 11 | Teenagers are fiercely independent , but the risks of being led astray are much greater — drug addiction , unsafe sex or even death from dare-devil exploits . |
| 12 | Similarly the old Roman cities in Languedoc , Burgundy , and the Loire valley regained a truly urban character , after centuries of being pared down to walls , cathedral church , and market place ; townsmen outnumbered clerics , new streets were built for their houses , roads inside the walls began to be levelled to prevent rubbish from blocking the entrances to new stone churches or entrance gates , trades diversified , immigrants poured in . |
| 13 | Remember that none of the rockdwellers like being crowded so keep the population at a sensible level . |
| 14 | Paula said : ‘ We almost always manage to save animals from being put down but our resources and funds are being stretched to the limit , the situation is desperate . ’ |
| 15 | Glastonbury is the unmissable event , the grooviest vibe of the music year , but Reading is the heaviest bill , the most densely packed agglomeration of rawk bands and fans to be found anywhere . |
| 16 | This still enables reasonably compact bar codes to be used , but keeps the reading process easy enough for inexpensive sensors to be used successfully . |
| 17 | It was not unknown for foreigners to be brought up in this way , and trained for responsible posts in the army , priesthood or civil service . |
| 18 | It encouraged the tendency for uncoordinated initiatives to be taken at different levels of the diplomatic hierarchy and contradictory signals to be sent out to foreign powers . |
| 19 | The University will assume that it is free to approach referees at any stage unless the candidate 's application stipulates otherwise ( i.e. candidates who wish a referee or referees to be approached only with their specific permission and/or if they are being called for interview on the final short list or are in receipt of a conditional offer , are asked to state such requirements explicitly alongside the details of the relevant referee(s) ) . |
| 20 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 21 | The investigation itself requires the test sessions to be repeated as often as possible , say on 5 occasions at each test time , to reduce the effects of variability . |
| 22 | As well as X400 , X25 , Async and Bisync , it is now also offering Odette File Transfer Protocol , enabling dropped sessions to be picked up in the middle of transmission . |
| 23 | The brightly marked sea snakes are among the most venomous snakes to be found anywhere in the world . |
| 24 | The 1947 Act permitted , not required , air pollution control districts to be set up and it introduced a programme to control pollution but at the same time keep industry in business as usual . |
| 25 | Who will provide the £1 million or £2 million for the offices to be fitted out ? |
| 26 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 27 | There are some fine trips to be made out of Oloron , in all directions ; and to start with , naturally , to the south , towards the mountains , along the valley of the Aspe . |
| 28 | Added to the difficulty of implementing blanket controls are the following factors : few ports of entry have any animal holding facilities , making it impossible for animals to be kept back ; customs staff often do not have the necessary background to identify an endangered animal ; and containers can be difficult to examine and endangered species can be smuggled in with other animals . |
| 29 | He was a regular visitor at Dotty Harmer 's , glorying in the variety of animals to be found there . |
| 30 | Resident Magistrate Harry McKibbin , ordering the animals to be put down , said the decision was ‘ the most painful ’ part of his duty in the entire case . |