Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 2 | One phrase of Xenophon 's , about the helots wanting to ‘ eat the Spartiates raw ’ , is no less memorable for being an echo of Homer ( Iliad iv.35 ) . |
| 3 | That was the other thing I think about the Festival programme which I think was a bit embarrassed about is the fact that all that information is in such teeny tiny writing |
| 4 | Because I 'm afraid of being the victim I 'll bubble my way up to being either the rescuer or the persecutor . |
| 5 | Are n't you afraid of being the other sort — the sort that stops and suffers ? " |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said Jay , ‘ and what 's wrong with being a lover ? |
| 7 | There is nothing wrong with being a bit conservative and building up financial resources , and not just jumping straight in . |
| 8 | I see nothing wrong with being a career officer . |
| 9 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 10 | They are also lively with being the most noisy and then bringing and into the noise . |
| 11 | But hey , there 's a bounty out , he could do with the loot and you can tell from the narrowing of those famous Eastwood eyes that he 's bored rigid with being a decent human being . |
| 12 | ‘ I think being a press photographer is not a lot different from being a team sports person . |
| 13 | In addition to their genetic differences they will each have a different nurturing experience within their family , for example being the first born and only child is different from being the second or third child of parents already used to dealing with small babies and the noise , bustle and demands of older siblings . |
| 14 | And when people like Michael Bilington from the Guardian comes here what they are interested in are the Irish shows , not the visiting productions which they can see anytime . |
| 15 | ‘ What I 'm interested in is no use to the private sector . |
| 16 | ‘ What they 're interested in is the cinema of the extreme , ’ says Tarantino . |
| 17 | As a sociologist , what he is interested in is the knowledge of a social group and as a Marxist he is interested in the ‘ maximum potential consciousness ’ of a group or class — what it could know and still remain a coherent group . |
| 18 | What employers will be interested in is the confidence and faith you have in yourself to revise and update your clinical skills in order to place them in a service context . |
| 19 | What Foucault is interested in is the complex of ‘ power-knowledge ’ , the way in which power operates through the construction of particular knowledges . |
| 20 | What we are interested in is the different sorts of inferences which we make as addressees , depending on variables like the age and sex of the speaker , as a result of hearing what B says . |
| 21 | I suspect all they are interested in is the money . |
| 22 | Erm but you get some circuits where the only thing you 're interested in is the tiny deviations from Ohm 's Law . |
| 23 | Anyone interested in being a volunteer should get in touch with Damian on Bordon ( 0420 ) 472884 . |
| 24 | He 's more interested in being a writer than playing the drums , and reckons ‘ the situation is really … mercurial . ’ |
| 25 | But Branson was not interested in being a gardener for art ; he was interested in being successful . |
| 26 | But the cinema Americans were interested in was the antithesis of the Free Cinema mode . |
| 27 | The only monetary target he should be interested in was the price of his memoirs . |
| 28 | ‘ Before , all I was interested in was the glamorous side of the sun , and being able to wear short skirts and skimpy tops . |
| 29 | The other thing I was interested in was the increase of ele of occupational therapists and I just wondered what the realistic expectation was of being able to recruit them because as far as I know they are a scarce resource er and not easy to find . |
| 30 | Mr Chairman , I I welcome this opportunity er of of saying just a very brief word about fire service because as a new member I think one of the services that this county has er er is top in is the fire service . |