Example sentences of "[prep] [being] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the history of social improvement and development , compacts and other examples of ‘ limited ’ ( e.g. ‘ feel good ’ ) partnership activities run the risk of being judged to be brief and enthusiastic failures . |
| 2 | Although paperwork is boring , it is not difficult to do , but there are other duties where there is a risk of being shown to be incompetent , which are disliked for this reason . |
| 3 | The women , however , were more aware of being pushed , of being expected to be unusual . |
| 4 | Changing from being employed to being self-employed , it 's , it 's a big change that is you and er , and er the union the union helped me and er told me what I could do and what I could n't do and all that sort of thing . |
| 5 | Machismo is neutered by being assumed to be synonymous with stupidity and tedium . |
| 6 | Also , even if a subject is never directly or completely ‘ freed ’ trom repression by its displacement , he or she may be empowered in other ways — for example , by being seen to be homophobic in a homophobic culture . |