Example sentences of "[adj] of [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora lay rigid in his arms , resentful of being carried about like a bundle of laundry . |
| 2 | Being gripped by a narrative is an altogether wider notion than what is presaged by the two-in-one of being outside yet inside Raskolnikov 's ‘ strange smile ’ : the rehearsal of the murder , the murder sequence itself , the three long duels with the detective Porfiry , the suffering , the hesitation , the final climb up the police-station stairs . |
| 3 | He wrote that his mother 's ‘ hopeful ambition ran high of being able to make me a good scholar . ’ |
| 4 | People of all types with unusual objects upon their person are also considered suspicious , whether this be holdalls or pocketfuls of 2p pieces ( suspected of being used to entice children ) . |
| 5 | As Table 5 shows , 66 per cent of the investigations conducted alone by the Team resulted in partial or complete substantiation , 20 per cent were judged to be unsubstantiated and well intentioned and 14 per cent were unsubstantiated and suspected of being maliciously intended . |
| 6 | Remarks ( i ) One might try to employ this sort of manoeuvre ( exercise 10(c) ) on any given polynomial one suspected of being irreducible . |
| 7 | The only thing you have to be careful of is that the hardcard is thin enough not to obscure too many of the very few slots that the 2000 series has . |
| 8 | Yeah , I mean , what you , what you 'd have to be careful of is , is sooner or later people 'll catch on |
| 9 | Moreover , the live food that all fish are particularly fond of is worms . |
| 10 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 11 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 12 | That was fair enough , though I am doubtful of being ‘ scarred ’ by a ‘ legacy ’ . |
| 13 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 14 | What I 'm afraid of is that price liberalisation could enable producers of coal , steel and other raw materials to dictate high prices because of their monopoly position . |
| 15 | But I think one of the things that men are afraid of is that when women get into the things the attitudes change , as we were saying about bigotry and religion and so on with football , I do n't think that men want that because this is the perfect club they can enjoy and indulge all that , but if women really get into it the thing will change as society does . |
| 16 | And the thing , the biggest thing that we 've been afraid of is death and the things that lead to death like sickness and like infirmity like weakness . |
| 17 | He was afraid of being sent back to Ethiopia , where close family members had been imprisoned and tortured . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 23 | However , while the romantic is afraid of being ordinary , Jesus was so ordinary that even his own family could see nothing special about him . |
| 24 | Your own death : If they are honest , most people are not so much afraid of being dead as they are of the way they arrive at that state . |
| 25 | That was because I was afraid of being like them . ’ |
| 26 | Is it because you believe it wrong to do so , or because you are afraid of being caught and of the consequences if you are ? |
| 27 | He is so afraid of being controlled himself ( being done to as he himself does ) that he continues to control others to avoid becoming a victim himself and so having to face humiliation . |
| 28 | Unconsciously we feel it was a fluke and we are afraid of being found out . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Do n't filter them out because they seem silly , and do n't be afraid of being wrong . |