Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what many yoga fans will have heard about is the ‘ life-force ’ , especially if they followed Richard Hittleman 's Yoga for Health series on television . |
| 2 | No pornographer has ever been punished for being a woman-hater. but not too long ago information about female sexuality , contraception and abortion was assumed to be obscene . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Miss Isabella , ’ she said , ‘ let's see if your angels can stop you being punished for being a lazy , stupid little girl . ’ |
| 4 | I am being punished for being an invalid and paying my national insurance contributions for 40 years . |
| 5 | In Australia his memory is revered for being a left-arm unorthodox spinner who occasionally sent down literally unplayable deliveries . |
| 6 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 7 | This must not detract from the enormous value of May 's pioneer work in publishing such large collections , and he can hardly be blamed for being the victim , as we all are in turn , of the limitation of the knowledge and ideas of the day . |
| 8 | In the 1960s psychiatry was attacked for being a form of social policing which , with the aid of pseudo-scientific categories , mystified socially desirable behaviour as natural , and undesirable behaviour as the result of abnormal psychosexual development ( a deviation from ‘ The Way to Healthy Manhood ’ ) . |
| 9 | Meals after shows , with a company who all got on , Charles found , were the moments he most enjoyed of being an actor . |
| 10 | Unfortunately no-one had been able to see her accommodation beforehand and we found that the hotel she had been booked into was a nightmare — tatty rooms with cigarette burns , door handles which fell off , threadbare carpets . |
| 11 | ‘ Am I exonerated from being a wimp ? ’ |
| 12 | In that period of time we 'd have dropped from being the largest and preferred supplier to a minority supplier |
| 13 | The impact that it has on these people particularly as the Chair said , the retained service , can be quite profound because they , unlike the whole time firemen can be catapulted from being a joiner one minute into being a rescue operator the next minute . |
| 14 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |
| 15 | The site was designed to be a mirror-image of Ford 's main US plant . |
| 16 | To help another major city — chosen by competition — to hold an international trade fair designed to be a showcase of British innovation for the twenty-first century . |
| 17 | The station was consciously designed to be a civic centre with a wide range of rooms including a theatre . |
| 18 | self-chosen evidence of pupils ' thought and action in written , visual and taped form designed to be a self-selected commentary on the pupils ' character . |
| 19 | It was designed to be a troop transport plane . |
| 20 | It is designed to be a place for SATELLITES , SHUTTLES , PLANETS and THE SHIP . |
| 21 | The story is designed to be a modern-day film noir . |
| 22 | Both Jesus and Paul will say that marriage is designed to be a one-flesh lifelong relationship , but they both recognise the human realities . |
| 23 | Designed to be a complete teaching package , Fanfare does not need to be supplemented by any additional material . |
| 24 | It was designed to be a communication between experts , discussing technical issues within their own subject field and hence was not intended for ’ public consumption ’ . |
| 25 | Designed to be a showpiece for the new series , the very ambitious script , even in its final form , called for every stage in Polo 's journey to Peking from the Himalayas to be represented with sumptuous interior sets , exterior sets done in the studio , animated map graphics , and a vast array of costumes , props and backdrops . |
| 26 | Apple 's Macintosh , on the other hand , was designed to be a closed system with a rigidly defined hardware and software core that all developers could take advantage of . |
| 27 | The more functional brace , such as the Lenox Hill Derotation Brace or the CTI/MVP brace , is designed to be a more effective deterrent against reinjury . |
| 28 | And it 's not designed to be a public meeting for anybody that come along and gives support and help would be more than welcome . |
| 29 | It is designed to be a first maths program for the younger user and is suitable for the 3 to 6 years age group , depending on the level of computer familiarity . |
| 30 | The Centre is designed to be a focus for social work research in Scotland . |