Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This perhaps links with the lack of awareness of Britain as a multilingual society referred to above — on the whole teaching methods seem to be conceived of a primarily technical , with little regard for the links between techniques and methods used and more general educational and social questions . |
| 2 | In On the Night of the Fire ( 1939 , The Fugitive in US ) , Ralph Richardson plays a small-town barber whose desire to be shot of a miserable life , ‘ earning a few quid a week and no hope of making anything more ’ leads him first to an act of casual theft , then murder . |
| 3 | Undertaken sensitively and carefully by an experienced operator in controlled circumstances , regression therapy should be a beneficial and restorative experience for the subject , enabling him to be rid of a serious problem that may have been troubling him for years and indeed possibly ruining his life . |
| 4 | The boy was present on that path , by his own statement and actions , he had , however he might regret the act afterwards , cause to be rid of a man who could accuse him . |
| 5 | To enable full use to be made of a machine materials used in the food environment need to be ‘ dishwasher proof ’ . |
| 6 | But for the most part we shivered in our beds that winter , heaping on more and more blankets , which seemed to be made of a mixture of cardboard and lead and only increased the weight without increasing the heat . |
| 7 | He typically determines the nature and level of the demands to be made of a polluter . |
| 8 | Before leaving the topic of logical incrementalism , mention needs to be made of a few other relevant studies . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it was clearly preferable to the assumption that to be deprived of a child was punishment for sin . |
| 10 | A mortgagee is not , in our judgment , to be deprived of a contractual or equitable right to add costs to the security merely by reason of an order for payment of costs made without reference to the mortgagee 's contractual or equitable rights and without any adjudication as to whether or not the mortgagee should be deprived of those costs . |
| 11 | Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded . |
| 12 | SAUCHIEHALL Street was the place to be seen of a Friday or Saturday evening , and not only men but unaccompanied young ladies would stroll up and down in their finery , smoking in public . |
| 13 | They are likely to enjoy higher standards of health , and to live longer ; they are less likely to be convicted of a criminal offence ; they are more likely to own their own house and a variety of consumer goods . |
| 14 | You are obliged by law to inform your local water company in writing at least five working days before making certain alterations or additions to your plumbing system ; there would be stiff penalties if you were to be convicted of a contravention of the water bye-laws . |
| 15 | To hold that " reckless " bears a subjective meaning would be consistent with the definition in the tort of deceit : one would not wish a person to be convicted of a crime when he would not be tortiously liable . |
| 16 | As the Danish scholar Per Nykrog has observed , however , the corpus of fabliaux seems to be constituted of a certain stock of recognized tales rather than being the product of widespread and prolific extemporization as Bédier was inclined to believe . |
| 17 | In the brain , the olfactory system appears to be composed of a sequence of layers of nodes with no obvious geometric structure . ) |
| 18 | In arctic and alpine environments the surface is often seen to be composed of a layer of angular rock fragments commonly described by the term felsenmeer and attributed to the operation of frost weathering . |
| 19 | Some people , instead of going ahead , turned directly left , thus indicating their sophistication , their experience , their refusal to be baulked of a short cut by officialdom . |
| 20 | The woman whom the man and the bear were tormenting — for this was how Cecilia saw it , as torment — at least had the good fortune to be possessed of a magazine , which she was now pretending to read while the bear cavorted in front of her . |
| 21 | He seemed to be possessed of a driving need to review and revitalise everything , calling for frequent staff meetings , inviting ideas on production methods and working schedules , and when he was n't at his desk or out at a meeting he was cooped up with Mike Freeman in the downstairs office or in one of the other departments . |
| 22 | Although the Commissioners from the counties required to be possessed of a freehold within the county which they represented , there was no necessity after the Union for a person who represented the City of Edinburgh , or any of the fourteen Districts into which the other burghs were divided , to be possessed of any property within the burgh . |
| 23 | But these estimates were , of course , based on the short-term , very non-strategic demands of investors who wanted to be assured of a good return on their money if they bought shares in the industry . |
| 24 | In both cases one needs a common belief in the social role of justice and in its priority to be assured of a compromise . |
| 25 | Here arises the first problem : how completely must the picture of the disease and the remedy match in order to be assured of a beneficial result ? |
| 26 | A new classification would need to have unusual authority , to gain immediate and widespread acceptance , and to be assured of a steady and unshakeable future . |
| 27 | He 's built almost 3 different teams in the past 5 years , got us promotion , a league title and we 're now in second place , which is where we must finish to be assured of a European place . |
| 28 | He already seems certain to be stripped of a major part of his ministerial duties . |
| 29 | Peasants came to her to be reminded of a particular tale the details of which they had mislaid in the mists of childhood ; more sophisticated members of the community , less concerned with the tale than the teller , made the journey to Elling in an effort to keep alive a tradition that had died elsewhere . |
| 30 | Harris research director Robert Waller may not care to be reminded of a quote attributed to him in The Independent on Sunday on March 8 at the start of the campaign : ‘ Oh yes , it 's exciting . |