Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You ca n't blame the fans for being sceptical , ’ said Beck . |
| 32 | ‘ Reward a young horse for being good rather than punish him for being naughty ’ |
| 33 | You 've certainly got me interested , and the shipping accounts may take my mind off being cross with you . |
| 34 | ‘ Give him another drink , Ellis , ’ he said , ‘ and then let's vote him out of our club for being sanctimonious . ’ |
| 35 | I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department for being unable to attend at the start of the debate , due to the aggravated taking of British Rail , which took three hours to take me from York to the metropolis . |
| 36 | I was on my knees , there was orange juice and broken plates and food and coffee everywhere and Sheridan was saying loudly it was my fault for being clumsy . ’ |
| 37 | It was my fault for being late . ’ |
| 38 | The Christians soon acquired a reputation even among the pagans for being generous with their money ; they thought it better to give than to enquire too closely into the merits of the recipients , and were therefore occasionally easy game for confidence tricksters . |
| 39 | The Captain had no illusions about being able to guess what Demontis knew or did n't know . |
| 40 | And , if she 'd had any illusions about being able to deceive him , his behaviour over the past two days had put paid to that . |
| 41 | Accordingly , when the Virgilian voice does irrupt into these relatively late Cantos , it does so with all the more force for being unheralded . |
| 42 | I do not think come this weekend either that we will have any worries about being able to last the pace , ’ he asserted . |
| 43 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
| 44 | Age was the main influence upon all politicians ' ratings for being energetic . |
| 45 | Few voters gave her low ratings for being tough or decisive , and they were an unpredictable few . |
| 46 | Holborn picked up the 1992 Best Overall Branch prize , Threadneedle Street were presented with a plaque for being top Branch in the Customer Satisfaction Index for 1992–93 , and Pall Mall received the Cost/Income Award for 1991–92/ The top student award went to Julian Gouge who , in 1992 , achieved the highest aggregate marks among all Royal Bank candidates in the Associateship examinations . |
| 47 | The idea was to persuade 1,000 ‘ rich radicals ’ with incomes of over £12,000 per year ( the Walsh criterion for being rich ) to put up £1,000 each . |
| 48 | Indeed , it is the disinterested character of the reactions which is the criterion for being aware from other people 's viewpoints . |
| 49 | It 's become a reflex for critics to castigate the readers for being partisan , for being sluggish and single-minded in their choices . |
| 50 | They will be restoring Dunblaine Castle — unless Havvie spends the lot on loose women , drink and gambling — begging your pardon for being frank , McAllister . |
| 51 | Another time , Alan Slab , who later served a life sentence for murder , chased me across the common in the dark for being cheeky . |
| 52 | A bonus for being honest on this team , and being awake . |
| 53 | ‘ I mean , ’ said Mounce , ‘ I 'm not going to give you a lot of crap about being pure as the driven snow myself . |
| 54 | Do n't give me that crap about being lower-middle-class : it really annoys me . ’ |
| 55 | He was quite a personable young man , but the Waaf I recognised instantly as the one who had been ejected from Hut 4 at Bourn for being dirty . |
| 56 | Being ‘ moralized ’ ( as opposed to demoralized ) is a necessary condition for being ingenious , committed and enthusiastic . |
| 57 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 58 | Lyons flies out to Brunei this week to take charge of the national team less than six months after being surplus to requirements at Huddersfield Town . |
| 59 | Just as the injunctions may serve to exaggerate the feeling of powerlessness , in the face of a limited ( even if substantial ) loss of power , so they lead people to exaggerate the imagined risks of being honest . |
| 60 | But the minister pointed out : ‘ The basic fact would seem to be that , the longer the campaign has gone on , fewer people have been prepared to take on the commitments and risks of being part-time soldiers . ’ |