Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meals after shows , with a company who all got on , Charles found , were the moments he most enjoyed of being an actor . |
| 2 | Half the class refused to go to the lessons , frightened of being set on fire or being thrown through a window , but Endill liked the suspense of waiting to see what each mixture did next . |
| 3 | The highlights of this short story are these : born on good Friday 1935 , numerous operations as a child on a club left foot , po-faced and basically afraid of the world until he was thirteen , bullied at school , fighting it by becoming the class clown , playing the piano and showing off , off to Oxford , Beyond the Fringe , doubling up with Peter Cook , growing up to be five feet two ‘ and a half — every half inch counts ’ , losing his virginity at 23 , Sixties success as Pete'n'Dud , a series of relationships with faces such as Celia Hammond , Tuesday Weld , Suzy Kendall , Susan Anton , love affair break ups and make ups , psychotherapy to sort out the hangover of a painful , frightening childhood , doubting Dudley , depressed Dudley , filthy Derek and Clive albums , worried about being 30 , happy about being 40 , frightened of being 50 , worrying Dudley , Dudley and jazz , Dudley in Hollywood making it big with 10 and Arthur , restless Dudley , manic Dudley , Dudley and son Patrick , million-dollar-a-film-Dudley , chasing chickens for Tesco , still small , still smiling , still pinching himself to believe it 's all real . |
| 4 | It lifted its shoulders slightly , or dropped its head a little , as though frightened of being struck if its supposition was wrong . |
| 5 | Anyone frightened of being too sick in public can send me email : - ) |
| 6 | One of the most remarkable I have heard of is in the island of Timor , where there is a deposit , known as Bobonaro Scaly Clay , that extends for some 600 miles of outcrop , 60 miles wide and 1 miles thick . |
| 7 | But I do n't think it is a works , I think it 's two blokes , I du n no how many are there but it all I 've heard of is these two bosses |
| 8 | Just as Paul the apostle had once written of being ‘ transported into the third heaven ’ in a mystical experience of God , so mother and son were united in their desire for God . |
| 9 | The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red . |
| 10 | But Mr Davies said : ‘ We have had cases of people who we have suspected of being infected and the degree of compassion and humanity among other staff has been remarkable . ’ |
| 11 | He was ultimately responsible for the emptying of the city , the forced labour in the countryside , the persecution of anyone judged to have been tainted by foreign influences , and the bloody purges of Khmer Rouge cadres suspected of being ‘ Vietnamese traitors ’ . |
| 12 | Referring to their work observing a house which was suspected of being used for prostitution , the policemen remarked that it was ‘ a wee tuppence ha'penny job ’ . |
| 13 | If E. K. Chambers could be suspected of being dull and pedantic , what were Fox 's qualities ? |
| 14 | Producers responded to the critical backlash with a self-deceiving debate about whether British films did poorly because they were bad , or simply because they were suspected of being so . |
| 15 | The High Court , meanwhile , rejected an appeal by a rightwing MP to deport two other leading Palestinians suspected of being involved in the leadership of the intifada . |
| 16 | Those linked in any way with the half-dozen Marxist guerrilla groups , or who are vaguely suspected of being ‘ subversives ’ by the country 's right-wing extremists , may be shot at , bombed , tortured or killed . |
| 17 | Many Zapotec pottery vessels , however , have long been suspected of being forgeries . |
| 18 | So he reached Camp David , the presidential dacha which he had first suspected of being an outpost of the American Gulag . |
| 19 | Mostly they consisted of reporting upon the current state of affairs in Vienna , with particular reference to the activities of certain persons suspected of being hostile to the French and their emperor . |
| 20 | Apparently , the owners of the ranch bungalow were suspected of being involved in the exhumation of bodies at two local churches when skulls and other bones were removed , and also the disappearance of three goats on or about the thirteenth of each of the previous three months . |
| 21 | The SNC meteorites are not suspected of being material ejected from Earth following a major impact and which subsequently fell back to Earth . |
| 22 | Several months ago , France 's interior minister announced a new file on people suspected of being terrorists . |
| 23 | Anyone who kept a pet owl was suspected of being a magician , and farmers would nail an owl 's body to a front door , with its wings outstretched , to avert thunder and hail . |
| 24 | Within an hour of the crash , neighbours on the Yew Tree council estate had rounded up a youth suspected of being involved . |
| 25 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 26 | During the meeting of the Special Commission which prepared the preliminary draft of the Convention there was considerable , but inconclusive , discussion of the position which should obtain when service was required on someone strongly suspected of being in a particular country but whose address within the country was unknown . |
| 27 | The controversy over the Contagious Diseases Acts , passed in the 1860s to impose compulsory medical examination and registration on working-class women suspected of being prostitutes in designated garrison and naval towns , generated an avalanche of controversy and publications . |
| 28 | Balliol retaliated by banishing all English property owners and any others he or his advisers suspected of being pro-English . |
| 29 | The most famous knight in his following , William Marshal , was suspected of being Queen Margaret 's lover . |
| 30 | If too many expectations are flouted , the writer may be suspected of being mentally unbalanced , of being incapable of seeing the world in a normal way . |