Example sentences of "of be [adv] [vb pp] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | So little irritations get filed away instead of being openly expressed and before long a boiling cauldron of repressed anger has extinguished their sexual fire . |
| 2 | This stone built hotel has the reputation of being well run and offers light , spacious rooms . |
| 3 | In spite of being well fed and cared for , some dogs will steal food and scavenge at every opportunity . |
| 4 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 5 | Under thunderheads , beneath cloudcover like a coated tongue with a doctor 's pencil-torch playing on it , as in A dark carnival , we protest the Vietnam War , with vivified , uplifted faces , with the press of bodies all moving the same way , and with that sense of being both lost and right , lost and right . |
| 6 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 7 | If fire fighting is to be undertaken in such circumstances it would appear that a range of pre-planned , pre-positioned equipment is necessary , capable of being independently controlled and deployed . |
| 8 | The challenge for us is not so stark ; I do n't suppose that anyone here faces the risk of being falsely arrested and given an unjust trial . |
| 9 | The nightmare of being wrongly accused and convicted of a crime certainly sends shivers down my spine . |
| 10 | The classic Chaplin figure was never a worker , never a member of a class and never in danger of being politically motivated and divisive . |
| 11 | Integration of was quickly effected and rationalisation , including the closure of five mills , took place before the year end . |