Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect all horses that are well looked after to be cheerful , but like people , some display it more than others . |
| 2 | The local gentry were prevailed upon to be such things as president , and vice president ; membership fees for ‘ farmers and tradesmen ’ were 3 shillings , for ‘ labourers ’ 2 shillings , and for youths under 16 years one shilling . |
| 3 | A teacher could be called upon to be a lecturer to 120 children , fairly infrequently , on " lead lesson " lines : " a full-scale highly polished performance , carefully prepared , and using any necessary ancillary aids. " ( ibid ) He could be a seminar leader to a subsequent discussion or work group . |
| 4 | In industrial selling , the salesperson may be called upon to be an adviser or consultant who is required to provide solutions to problems . |
| 5 | They both knew that no timer could be relied upon to be that sensitive , that when he activated it , the chances were reasonable that it would detonate instantly — before he could throw it . |
| 6 | Well-intentioned though the dear soul undoubtedly was , Charlotte had hoped to avoid her , since they had not met since Maurice 's death and Mrs Mentiply could be relied upon to be as curious as she was sympathetic . |
| 7 | He certainly has not become an angel overnight , but his more extreme behaviour has been left behind and usually he can be relied upon to be helpful and co-operative . |
| 8 | Under pressure from government economic policies and spending cuts , the predisposition to rethink conventional provision is slight , except in so far as as competition for student numbers , effective teaching hours and fee-income intensifies the concentration on popular recreational and leisure pursuits , rather than innovative and developmental work in areas which can not be relied upon to be lucrative . |
| 9 | ( 17 ) The takeover of the target may cause loan agreements and other contracts which it has entered into to be determinable , or for the other contracting party to be entitled to exercise valuable option or pre-emption rights . |
| 10 | Anyway ; he brought down this book ; history of the War in pictures , and it had like all these photos of the death camps , where the Nazis murdered millions of Jews , and communists , and homosexuals , and gypsies and anybody else they did n't like … but mostly Jews , and there were like just piles of bodies ; incredibly thin bodies , like bones ; skeletons wrapped with tissue paper , and piled higher than a house … and pits ; long pits full of bodies , and the metal stretchers they were put onto to be shoved into the ovens , and the piles of wedding rings and spectacles ; glasses , and even artificial legs and weird stuff like that … |