Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was originally used for prisoners waiting to be deported to Australia , and it also housed the infamous Crippen and Christie who were both hanged and buried there . |
| 2 | Etzioni formulates a hypothesis about organizations seeking to be effective : that they will shift their compliance structure towards one in which there is greater congruence between power and involvement , either by changing the nature of the power employed ( e.g. from sanctions to ‘ leadership ’ ) or the participants involved ( e.g. by recruitment methods ) ( Etzioni 1961 ) . |
| 3 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |
| 4 | Two lads turned up at Goodison for trials claiming to be Dutch internationals from Maastricht Hertz Van Rental and Leasowe Van Hire . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're a lady of mystery , full of secrets waiting to be unlocked , but that 's no problem . |
| 6 | And of course wanting to be back on ops . ’ |
| 7 | Of course learning to be guided by your instincts takes time . |
| 8 | In the midst of those terrifying complaint stories in Numbers is another chapter concerned with the offerings to be made once the people have occupied the Land , offerings which suggest a life of plenty waiting to be enjoyed there ( ch. |
| 9 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 10 | There 's an awful lot of money waiting to be claimed but making a mistake could be disastrous . ’ |
| 11 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 12 | The subassembly relationships can thus be established with the minimum of data needing to be extracted from CAD part files . |
| 13 | Erm we 're hearing reports that parts of schools having to be closed or th threatened to be closed because they 're not sufficiently hygienic for pupils or teachers to work in . |
| 14 | The Buckinghamshire assessments seem , on the contrary , to illustrate the other side of the story , of commissioners having to be directed by the Council to commence their labours afresh , employing any and every ‘ practice ’ to ferret out the truth . |
| 15 | Refreshed , we drove on to Shwebo and had breakfast with a small group of SPG missionaries who had camped out there , looking after the stream of refugees hoping to be flown to India . |
| 16 | I remember small boys all wanting to be cowboys and the role of Indians having to be forced on the smaller ones . |
| 17 | In November 1883 a quantity of bottles purporting to be Champagne made by Deutz & Geldermann attracted attention in Munich . |
| 18 | There is no change in the proportion of directors claiming to be more optimistic . |
| 19 | Flexibility is bound to be required to take account , for example , of a sudden increase in a particular type of work , of a complex transaction of such importance that the partners dealing with it must be on constant standby , of parents wishing to be free during school holidays . |
| 20 | While there is a steady stream of visitors looking to be fed , the volunteers are also needing a steady stream of food , especially soup . |
| 21 | To read Barthes 's Mythologies is to make going on the London Underground an agonizing assault of messages begging to be decoded ; advertisements and dress styles proclaim loudly while faces remain blank and meaningless . |
| 22 | The commission is a preliminary vetting and investigatory body which , in addition to entertaining references from states parties themselves ( Art.24 ) , ‘ may receive petitions … from any person , non-governmental organisation or group of individuals claiming to be the victim of a violation by one of the High Contracting Parties … ’ |
| 23 | Nor does the RUC consider these aspects of community policing to be scarce resources , thus there is no restriction on their deployment to those limited number of areas where there are particular problems , as often happens in Great Britain ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 10 ) . |
| 24 | b ) enabling such grants to be made in respect of costs falling to be charged to accounts in respect of financial years ending after March 1993 but not later than March 1996 . |
| 25 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 26 | For Sun Yat-sen , the leader of the revolution , China was a slab of meat waiting to be carved up by foreign powers , a loose sheet of sand incapable of being coherently organised . |
| 27 | By an originating summons dated 15 April 1992 the plaintiff , the Deposit Protection Board , sought relief against the defendants , Mrs. Varsha Dalia and Barclays Bank Plc. , namely ( 1 ) that it might be determined whether a person entitled by reason of assignment of part of a deposit ( as defined by section 5(1) of the Banking Act 1987 ) was a depositor holding a protected deposit entitled to a compensation payment from the plaintiff pursuant to section 58(1) of the Banking Act 1987 ; ( 2 ) that an order be made that the first defendant should represent that class of persons claiming to be entitled to compensation payments from the plaintiff pursuant to section 58(1) of the Banking Act 1987 by reason of assignment of part of a deposit held with Bank of Credit and Commerce International S.A. ; and ( 3 ) that an order be made that the second defendant should represent that class of persons being contributory institutions within the meaning of section 52(1) of the Banking Act 1987 . |
| 28 | First , prior analysis facilitates current analysis by reducing the amount of processing needing to be done in order to determine the literal meaning of a clause or sentence . |
| 29 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 30 | Of people wanting to be dustmen . |