Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kinds of jobs being looked for were within Information technology or education , the latter almost certainly also within an IT field . |
| 2 | Possibly in answer a man got drunk and was pinched for being in charge of a horse and cart the while . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We shall explain its coming into existence as a consequence of gradual , cumulative , step-by-step transformations from simpler things , from primordial objects sufficiently simple to have come into being by chance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although she loved her work , never before had she wished to be on duty on a day off . |
| 9 | It has been designed to be of value and interest to all grades of nurses who may wish to work through for their own interest and professional development . |
| 10 | When designing your steps and choosing materials , do n't forget that some paving materials have a ‘ face ’ — a special textured or shaped finish , which is designed to be on show . |
| 11 | The service is conventional silver service , and the cuisine is designed to be in keeping with the hotel 's traditional ‘ Edwardian ’ character . |
| 12 | The principal guest bedroom features fleur de lys wallpaper specially designed to be in keeping with the period the castle was built . |
| 13 | Fellows , who will be expected to be of PhD status and/or to have an appropriate track record , retain their permanent employment so that their salary position and superannuation arrangements are undisturbed by the secondment . |
| 14 | The conclusions to this study are expected to be of use to policy-makers in deciding where help in promoting a better trained workforce is most needed . |
| 15 | Women and girls were not expected to go off after work and sing in choirs or play games — they were expected to be at home catching up on household chores . |
| 16 | Hence staff sample covertly where they can , without gaining access to the discharger 's premises ; or they sample at night or weekends when they are not expected to be at work , and any routine sampling done during the day is never by appointment : |
| 17 | And then there 's the commercial challenge from Classic FM , which is expected to be on air in the autumn . |
| 18 | But the health watchdogs have countered that one person can not be expected to be on call all the time , and that person might also not be available . |
| 19 | New Zealander Chisholm has is expected to be off work for two weeks . |
| 20 | He 's expected to be off work for a few days but will be recalled for important Commons votes , including the Maastricht Treaty social chapter next Thursday . |
| 21 | Al Raqaba was quoted in Le Monde of June 24 as saying that 170 burning oil wells had so far been capped while the majority were expected to be under control by March 1992 [ see pp. 37988 ; 38119 ; 38166 ; 38212 ] . |
| 22 | The COBUILD corpus ( Sinclair , 1987a ) has about 20 million words and the American TEI corpus ( Walker , 1989 ) and British National Corpus ( BNC ) ( Leech , forthcoming ) are expected to be in excess of 100 million words . |
| 23 | The loss in remittances from workers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States by the end of 1991 was expected to be in excess of US$150 million . |
| 24 | But Brough record-holder Jenks Challenger and litter brother Badgers Panzer are expected to be in contention . |
| 25 | It could be argued , however , that if a PhD really is expected to be in part a contribution to knowledge , then this factor should be built into the system , so that the information gathered in such a costly fashion should be published in some form before completion , as is expected in some other European countries , such as Germany and the Netherlands . |
| 26 | It could be argued , however , that if a Ph D really is expected to be in part a contribution to knowledge , then this factor should be built into the system , so that the information gathered in such a costly fashion should be published in some form before completion , as is expected in some other European countries , such as Germany and the Netherlands . |
| 27 | The court , not expected to be in operation before September , would include 11 judges with a staff of 373 at a cost of around £20 million during its first year of operation . |
| 28 | The device , developed by Applied Research and Technology of Inverness , is expected to be in operation by 1994 . |
| 29 | We 'll keep an open mind about the caller 's sex until we get confirmation from Bidwell , but it was probably a woman , probably also someone who knew that old Mr. Lorrimer was expected to be in hospital yesterday , and who did n't know that the appointment had been cancelled . |
| 30 | The man is expected to be in hospital for three or four days . |