Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The processing of applications takes four to six months , or more , so that missing the deadline or failing to be appointed means wasting an entire year . |
| 2 | Fashion : GREEN — AND FIT TO BE SEEN Jane Mulvagh on how a family crisis prompted Europe 's largest clothing manufacturer to plan an environment-friendly label |
| 3 | So I called myself Pip , and came to be called Pip . |
| 4 | We say ‘ everyone is entitled to his beliefs ’ , recognising the nastiness of a world which will not tolerate alternative beliefs , but over-looking the fact that some beliefs are nonsense and deserve to be called prejudice , bigotry or superstition rather than merely belief . |
| 5 | Chart star TASMIN ARCHER hates her first name and prefers to be called Angela … |
| 6 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 7 | In Kenya bureaucracy provided 40 per cent of the country 's jobs and had to be kept content . |
| 8 | Nestorius himself refused to attend and had to be given protection by imperial troops . |
| 9 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 10 | They have to be constantly on the move , seeking the fruit and insects on which they live , but their babies , usually twins , are particularly large and have to be carried piggy-back until they are quite old . |