Example sentences of "[adj] of [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 2 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 3 | On the smaller Indonesian islands , where people are afraid of being killed by wild pigs , they have prefixed the names of biting flies and stinging plants with babi , meaning pig . |
| 4 | I was afraid of being suspected of the murder , I suppose . ’ |
| 5 | They are addressed as individuals and families and , furthermore , as frightened individuals and families , afraid of being crushed by , say , a socialist bureaucracy or large masses of immigrants . |
| 6 | The detached , amused part of Phoebe sometimes thought that her main feeling at these parties was a wish that she , and everyone else too , would dare to improve the quality of the wine , but they were all too self-consciously afraid of being mistaken for Yuppies , despite the fact they were mostly a little too old and slightly too poor . |
| 7 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 8 | Yes , but I was quite happy to feel like that , precisely because I was afraid of being influenced by my roots . |
| 9 | For six years Rita has lived the knife-edge existence of an illegal immigrant : invisible to the social services and institutions that citizens and landed immigrants can count on ; and constantly afraid of being discovered by immigration officials and deported . |
| 10 | They hurried across the plateau , afraid of being caught on the forest path after dark , glad that the wind was behind them , billowing out their skirts and propelling them forward on legs that ran involuntarily . |
| 11 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 12 | For example , if you are economically dependent upon your partner , or afraid of being left for someone else , then safer sex will be more difficult for you to raise . |
| 13 | Lots of girls married in haste and repented at leisure then because they were afraid of being left on the shelf . |
| 14 | One practical reason for the literal rule is that judges are now deeply afraid of being accused of making political judgments at variance with the purpose of Parliament when it passed the Act . |
| 15 | If a work is bigger than a man , he wrote , it can mean either that it is trying to surpass man or that it is not afraid of being looked at . |
| 16 | His only real chance of coming to grief was that of being struck by a stray round-shot , an unlikely mishap , for they sank as soon as they landed . |
| 17 | This saving does not have the character of savings ‘ in general ’ , that of being saved for future consumption , but is saved by capitalists . |
| 18 | Labour has not only neutralised most of those policy areas which make it unpopular ; more importantly , it has virtually erased the opportunity for Tories to accuse Labour of being run by the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 19 | They would trudge up the mine 's track before dawn , heads bowed before the onslaught of a sleet laden gale , fearful of being dashed into the chasm down which the Church Beck roared unseen . |
| 20 | In the mud , which the shelling had now turned to a consistency of sticky butter , troops stumbled and fell repeatedly ; cursing in low undertones , as if fearful of being overheard by the enemy who relentlessly pursued them with his shells at every step . |
| 21 | ’ Peter trotted past the row of cyclists , fearful of being caught in the middle . |
| 22 | The defeated Arab states , fearful of being picked off one by one , insisted on indirect and collective negotiations . |
| 23 | This has put off many potential investors fearful of being entangled in the courts for years . |
| 24 | aye that 's exactly what he was on about , getting interviewed on that , I mean I 've see the trailer on it , they were showing them scenes , he 's sick of being typecasted as a hard macho man in films , he wants to do something different family films |
| 25 | It 's the time you shout at your boss and your colleagues because you 're sick of being taken for granted when you know you 've done three times the work of any man for half the recognition . |
| 26 | She was faintly conscious of being manoeuvred into a defensive situation she did n't deserve , but Karl had one arm hung over the side of the car , his sleeve rolled up to reveal a hard masculine arm and his brown eyes were smiling , one eyebrow slightly raised in an amused sort of way . |
| 27 | She was conscious of being pleased by such things . |
| 28 | Her arms and legs ached , and because of her pending interrogation she was ever conscious of being stripped of her knickers . |
| 29 | Conscious of being looked at she swung her legs and smiled faintly , twitching her shoulders and arching her neck . |
| 30 | He was conscious of being watched by unfriendly eyes which show he felt he was a stranger intruding . |