Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unstruggling character has a 5% chance each hour of being discovered by Bremer . |
| 2 | The obstacle to disarmament in this case is not ambitions of superiority but the fear on each side of being tricked into a position of inferiority . |
| 3 | Another advantage of being enrolled in the University Ballet School was that his tuition was free . |
| 4 | As with astral travel , some talk of being linked to their physical bodies by a filmy cord . |
| 5 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 6 | This process of being stimulated by theory to carry out further research , and research contributing to the building-up of theory , is essentially what scientists call a ‘ feedback mechanism ’ . |
| 7 | Judging by the display of satin and tat at the Scottish Exhibition Centre last week , we are in grave danger of being swallowed in a cloud of marital candyfloss which could only be born in the USA . |
| 8 | THE CITY is in grave danger of being bullied into subscribing for shares in the water industry that it neither wants nor needs . |
| 9 | With the exception of Paul Nilon 's delightfully zany Count Belfiore , the principal roles were in some danger of being upstaged by the slightly lesser ones ( Nilon is not to blame if it remains incredible that any woman , let alone two , should fall in love with such a bizarre creature ) . |
| 10 | Jane , because she was a mistress , rarely had an opportunity to attend the more elegant events of society , and she was not going to miss this chance of being seen at a duchess 's ball . |
| 11 | No eighteenth-century peace plan had the slightest chance of being put into practice . |
| 12 | However , in many American accents and in some English accents of the South and East we find that , while ‘ pew ’ is pronounced and ‘ queue ’ as , ‘ tune ’ is pronounced ; this absence of is found after the other alveolar consonants , hence : ‘ due ’ ; ‘ new ’ . |
| 13 | It was a new sensation — or one she had forgotten — this feeling of being looked after by a strong , tender man . |
| 14 | This feeling of being addressed in a special , understanding way does not happen with the best children 's theatre , and greater credit could be given even to a young audience , with less recourse to pantomime-like delineation of character . |
| 15 | In this case the mother submitted to the judge that to order the removal of the child from the United Kingdom back to Canada would expose him to a grave risk of being placed in an intolerable situation . |
| 16 | But it is as well for high-profile entrepreneurs to remember that they are always at some risk of being damned by association if they use structures that appear , or can with journalistic licence be made to appear , too close to those behind which fraudsters have hidden . |
| 17 | It should also be understood that black sportsmen work sedulously at perpetuating their popular image of being relaxed at all times . |
| 18 | ‘ I would not have expected to accompany you on a romantic walk with your girlfriend , ’ Jenna said hotly , her cheeks flushing at this idea of being relegated to invalidity again . |
| 19 | ‘ Last night ? ’ she echoed faintly , before suddenly recalling a dim memory of being held within a pair of comforting arms . |
| 20 | As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller ! |
| 21 | Suddenly he was apprehended by an irate Scout master who took a dim view of being woken at such an hour . |
| 22 | Most pertinently , they 're at the point where the dubious advantage of being sucked into London systematically develop in front of their half-repulsed eyes . |
| 23 | The demons of early agony of being abandoned when left alone for longer than we could bear it , the terror of being annihilated by a raging adult , the suffocating experience of being trapped in the tunnel of our mother 's body with a cord tightening round our neck … it is hard to face those feelings again . |
| 24 | DAMON Hill saw his late father Graham 's Monaco Grand Prix record broken by Ayrton Senna but was the first to congratulate the Brazilian despite his own personal disappointment of being beaten into second place . |
| 25 | Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia 's first anonymous jury . |
| 26 | Hodson , who holds the dubious distinction of being relegated with every club he has played for , had rejected a new one-year contract and was on a week-to-week basis . |
| 27 | Early in the century especially , there was the real danger of being compared with Aphra Behn or Delarivi — re Manley or other writers whose sexual conduct had caused scandal . |
| 28 | The Wensleydale market town with its inns , its tea shops and its cobbles looks to have as much chance of being frequented by members of the oldest profession as being the venue for the Olympic Games in the year 2000 . |
| 29 | ‘ Not much chance of being rushed off your feet this morning . ’ |
| 30 | It is a policy that has signally failed to persuade either the financial markets or the rest of the European Community , mainly because neither Mrs Thatcher nor Mr Lawson shows any serious sign of being persuaded by it . |