Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | She had always hankered to be tall and fair , like Riborg . |
2 | It was only a week since , in this very room , she had wished to be rid of Gareth Davis ; now he was dead . |
3 | They have secretly wished to be lovers for years but the consummation of their affair is a recent event . |
4 | ‘ Then I 've never wished to be captured , ’ she returned bluntly . |
5 | It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London . |
6 | Although she loved her work , never before had she wished to be on duty on a day off . |
7 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |
8 | Many modern machines are not fitted with a nose release hook for aerotowing , but with one designed to be suitable for both wire and aerotow launches . |
9 | The blades are about 2in long , the small rounded handles designed to be held in palm of hand . |
10 | Remember that it was designed to be seen from 20ft below and back . |
11 | All will have a common question-and-answer format , designed to be ‘ user friendly ’ , and all will reflect the emphasis upon user involvement which runs throughout the community care proposals . |
12 | The package is designed to be used with staff from health , social services , housing , voluntary and private agencies . |
13 | It comprises a transmitter and a portable receiver which is designed to be moved from one location to another as required . |
14 | Again it needs to be remembered that this sort of coding is designed to be read by a machine , not a human . |
15 | ‘ PCBs were designed to be inert . |
16 | The site was designed to be a mirror-image of Ford 's main US plant . |
17 | Usually , it has been designed to be highly amplified in a night-club . |
18 | Bernstock & Speirs ' hats are designed to be easy to wear . |
19 | The latter package is designed to be broadcast during the peak viewing hours of 8pm and 10pm when the BBC has traditionally been unable to do it . |
20 | The latter package is designed to be broadcast during the peak viewing hours of 8pm and 10pm when the BBC has traditionally been unable to do it . |
21 | To aggravate all this further , the records all sound as though they were designed to be played on compact disc . |
22 | Here , we are concerned with the former , relaxed and floppy , with huge jackets as comfortable as cardigans and roomy trousers designed to be tugged in with a sturdy leather belt . |
23 | Though Christie 's says that the Vung Tau sale is lotted to encourage private buyers , with sets of between five and nine matching vases offered per lot ( and designed to be shown , as they were in the 17th century , massed together on a chimneypiece or high shelf ) , Cohen believes buying is more easily done through a dealer . |
24 | The questionnaire was designed to be largely self-explanatory and relatively quick to complete . |
25 | To help another major city — chosen by competition — to hold an international trade fair designed to be a showcase of British innovation for the twenty-first century . |
26 | ‘ Most of the time I live in the real Peru , ’ he told me , ‘ but the Cross Keys is designed to be Not Peru — a place where the gringo and the expat who live here all the time can escape from all the hassling , the beggars and all that crap — and relax . ’ |
27 | They are designed to be less restrictive than full safety helmets and are known as ‘ bump caps ’ . |
28 | The station was consciously designed to be a civic centre with a wide range of rooms including a theatre . |
29 | They are designed to be portable and enable herdsmen and hunters to move around the countryside in search of new pastures for their camels , sheep and yak . |
30 | Eton and Winchester , foundations designed to be of national significance and high quality and therefore directly linked with sister foundations at Cambridge and Oxford , were the exceptions . |