Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she says that attempts to free children of anxiety proved to be emissary . |
| 2 | yeah , hopefully the business coming in of , of this month because of the fact that the , the volume of business bound to be higher |
| 3 | Children 's toys , for example ( dolls or ‘ Action Man ’ ) , clothes ( pink for a girl , blue for a boy ) and names help to establish and define stereotypical patterns of behaviour associated with being male or female . |
| 4 | : I did the only thing I could think of , and retired to bed ; if I was to be a blade of grass doomed to be trampled flat , then I might as well accept it and lie down . |
| 5 | Guidance was given on the government and academic organization of polytechnics : the system of government needed to be suitable for institutions serving national as well as regional and local needs , and to be attractive to staff who would be able to ‘ share fully in their government and management as academic communities ’ . |
| 6 | First , they allowed us to develop a collage of the kinds of problem thought to be critical by the group . |
| 7 | Where the property is in possession , credit is deferred in respect of interest deemed to be irrecoverable . ’ |
| 8 | So our perception of the nature of time changed from being independent of the universe to being shaped by it . |
| 9 | It might , for example , seek to imprison for contempt either a working-class ‘ hero ’ organising lawful opposition outside the House to legislative proposals under consideration in it ; or an employer determined to extract his pound of flesh under legislation considered to be oppressive and proposed to be repealed as soon as possible . |
| 10 | Following this reduction to a less serious ' offence , sentencing policy seems to be that the offence of taking vehicles without consent is not in isolation deemed to be serious enough to attract a custodial sentence . |
| 11 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 12 | Althusserians subsequently placed much emphasis upon the ‘ epistemological break ’ , and were in turn castigated for being unable to explain how it occurred . |
| 13 | This means that what appear to be a number of completely different particles at low energies are in fact found to be all the same type of particle , only in different states . |
| 14 | And what do you think of the idea of ways that the , that the way the house types were graded , the fact that some of them were in fact meant to be executive or managerial classes and others were meant to be for people with less income , do you think that this is again recreating this sort of class system within the planning of the town ? |