Example sentences of "[adj] of [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was because I was afraid of being like them . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , I 'm sure my mother does but I never believed her , I was always afraid of being like her and I 'm such a disappointment to her , so hopeless and not beautiful , not like my grandmother . |
| 3 | He felt only too conscious of being in a cinema , on a seat with a broken spring , inhaling rank , second-hand air , his eyes smarting from cigarette-smoke , and his head throbbing with the heat . |
| 4 | Charlie might have quite enjoyed the lesson if Trentham had n't left the impression that none of them was worthy of being in the same regiment as himself . |
| 5 | Caspar said , in a rather flat voice , ‘ At least we can be sure of being on the right road . ’ |
| 6 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 7 | This time he would take Eliza with him all the way to her brother 's homestead at Yarrundi , so he could be sure of being in the area for at least three months . |
| 8 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 9 | ‘ HE WHO is tired of London is tired of being on Top Of The Pops , ’ said Dr Johnson , following a gig with Boswell . |
| 10 | I 'm tired of being in the public eye . |
| 11 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 12 | ‘ I have always been immensely proud of being from Derry and though I left Derry many years ago , Derry never quite left me . ’ |
| 13 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 14 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 15 | Could a ship of any size — I mean , a ship capable of being in Bilbao now — get to the place ? " |
| 16 | Each location must be capable of being in one of a discrete number of states . |
| 17 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
| 18 | My batman , who is a positive Jeeves , is with me and , truly , I am far less aware of being at war than I was in England . |
| 19 | As the drug wore off , and I became more aware of being inside my body , I felt like RoboCop , or Terminator , some kind of mutant cyborg . |
| 20 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 21 | For the other side of the ‘ protection ’ coin to be wary of is over -protection . |
| 22 | Many Disabled people are wary of being with other Disabled people because this is associated with disempowering situations of segregation and isolation . |