Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the range of benefits to which the elderly and those caring for them are entitled is still inadequate to meet every need , it is wider than some realise . |
| 2 | I have my eye at the moment on the little-visited town of Amman , capital of Transjordan , which I am told is charming . |
| 3 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 4 | This I am told was publicly declared at Redruth market last Friday . |
| 5 | But what shall I be called am I the first |
| 6 | Henley I 'm told are a team transformed this season , is that down to Clive Woodward ? |
| 7 | and that 's the criticism that I 'm told is I 'm not quite aggressive enough when I 'm driving a truck , but I , I do n't see it that way , I 'm not being aggressive . |
| 8 | I had Stuart about 3.55 a.m. which I 'm told was n't bad for my first child . |
| 9 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 10 | This was all the more so , since part of the problem with which I was faced was due , as I recognized , to lack of forethought on my side , though it had been complicated by a stroke of ill-luck . |
| 11 | The year I was born was an eventful one — Hitler came to power , the Loch Ness Monster was first sighted , and the film King Kong was made . |
| 12 | The reply that I was given is as follows : ’ The external finance limit for BR next year will be £2,041 million . |
| 13 | The first task I was given was to bathe an elderly spinster . |
| 14 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 15 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 16 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 17 | ‘ And I suppose you 're going to tell me that the manner in which I was dismissed was standard procedure ? ’ |
| 18 | Thus , the administration referred to is not of a governmental nature and the other legislation to which I was referred is of no assistance . |
| 19 | At one political meeting last month , I was abused being at one and the same time a pro-Marketeer , an anti-devolutionist , and , horror of horrors , pro-Sizewell ( AGR tendency only , I hasten to add ) . |
| 20 | Here is another of the paradoxes of anorexia nervosa : I must , in my unconscious , have wanted to grow up , but at the same time I was determined not to , because the models of potential adulthood with which I was presented were either repugnant or impossible to attain . |
| 21 | The gentleman to whom I was presented was an upright , elderly man with piercing eyes and a chin that looked as if he would stand no nonsense . |
| 22 | The parcel with which I was presented was the size of a largish shoe-box and surprisingly heavy . |
| 23 | One of the questions I was asked was , which historical figure did I admire most ? |
| 24 | But the question I was asked was — is it possible to just varnish — or is any special treatment necessary after stripping ? |
| 25 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 26 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 27 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 28 | We arrived at some barracks , which I was told were occupied by Austrian soldiers . |
| 29 | Of the man I was told was my Dad . |
| 30 | I 've spoken to many knitters about the N1 cam and the comment I hear so often is ‘ Oh , I was told was told always to put it in the centre of the machine , or ( worse ! ) at the edge of my knitting ’ . |