Example sentences of "[verb] of [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To admit to being innocent of guile somehow smacked of being undesirable , immature , but far better that than be thought an actress . |
| 2 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 3 | The highlights of this short story are these : born on good Friday 1935 , numerous operations as a child on a club left foot , po-faced and basically afraid of the world until he was thirteen , bullied at school , fighting it by becoming the class clown , playing the piano and showing off , off to Oxford , Beyond the Fringe , doubling up with Peter Cook , growing up to be five feet two ‘ and a half — every half inch counts ’ , losing his virginity at 23 , Sixties success as Pete'n'Dud , a series of relationships with faces such as Celia Hammond , Tuesday Weld , Suzy Kendall , Susan Anton , love affair break ups and make ups , psychotherapy to sort out the hangover of a painful , frightening childhood , doubting Dudley , depressed Dudley , filthy Derek and Clive albums , worried about being 30 , happy about being 40 , frightened of being 50 , worrying Dudley , Dudley and jazz , Dudley in Hollywood making it big with 10 and Arthur , restless Dudley , manic Dudley , Dudley and son Patrick , million-dollar-a-film-Dudley , chasing chickens for Tesco , still small , still smiling , still pinching himself to believe it 's all real . |
| 4 | If E. K. Chambers could be suspected of being dull and pedantic , what were Fox 's qualities ? |
| 5 | But he continued to serve her mother , being partly responsible for the tragedy of the duchess 's lady-in-waiting , Lady Flora Hastings [ q.v. ] , who died of a tumour while suspected of being pregnant by Conroy . |
| 6 | Balliol retaliated by banishing all English property owners and any others he or his advisers suspected of being pro-English . |
| 7 | The High Court , meanwhile , rejected an appeal by a rightwing MP to deport two other leading Palestinians suspected of being involved in the leadership of the intifada . |
| 8 | Apparently , the owners of the ranch bungalow were suspected of being involved in the exhumation of bodies at two local churches when skulls and other bones were removed , and also the disappearance of three goats on or about the thirteenth of each of the previous three months . |
| 9 | The Act enables the authorities to detain anyone ‘ 'reasonably ’ suspected of being involved in the commission , preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism' ( Hewitt , 1982:166 ) for up to 7 days , and to take out exclusion orders banning British and Irish citizens from leaving or entering Great Britain or Northern Ireland on the grounds that they have been , or intend to become , involved in acts of terrorism . |
| 10 | MPs PROTESTED to Government law officers yesterday over jail sentences on two vigilantes who kidnapped and threatened a youth suspected of being involved in thefts . |
| 11 | Mostly they consisted of reporting upon the current state of affairs in Vienna , with particular reference to the activities of certain persons suspected of being hostile to the French and their emperor . |
| 12 | Here Dickens stayed for his holiday one year , baulked of being able to rant Fort House as he desired . |
| 13 | ‘ I can understand why we were accused of being vague and naïve , ’ says Miss Kier . |
| 14 | After the Sheffield football disaster , within a week we heard accusations against the police , against the clubs , against the fans themselves who were accused of being drunk and causing trouble . |
| 15 | Despite such reports there was some evidence that the crisis had generated greater support for the King , particularly among Saudi nationals ; on the other hand some foreign Arab residents in Saudi Arabia , particularly Palestinians and Jordanians , were accused of being pro-Iraqi . |
| 16 | In other spheres Margaret Thatcher , Mary Archer ( who chairs the hardship committee at Lloyd 's ) and Helen Sharman , who were all trained as chemists , could hardly be accused of being unsuccessful . |
| 17 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |
| 18 | All too frequently , Conservative Members are wrongly accused of being anti-local authorities . |
| 19 | Although a recovering alcoholic and noted for temper tantrums , she could never be accused of being bland . |
| 20 | He was accused of being dictatorial and of attempting to overthrow the Constitution . |
| 21 | The press began to be accused of being one-sided , unfair , of not giving a balanced picture . |
| 22 | Bunn , 46 , of London , is accused of being involved in dishonestly pledging shares as security for a loan from a 35-bank syndicate to the Maxwell Communication Corporation . |
| 23 | Rubbing out Kylie meant , of course , that he could escort other women , without being accused of being unfaithful . |
| 24 | Accused of being insolent , the private may say : ‘ No I was n't , sergeant , I was just saying I 'd been cleaning my boots . ’ |
| 25 | Like Mr Major , Mr Bush is frequently accused of being colourless and too pragmatic . |
| 26 | He was , he informed us in his speech to the senate , fully aware that he may be accused of being naive . |
| 27 | Yes I often used to be accused of being Welsh but it is different . |
| 28 | At national conferences such as Acton and Edinburgh , the lesbians in general , and the separatists in particular , were accused of being elitist , divisive , of tearing the women 's movement apart , and taking energy away from ‘ the real struggle ’ . |
| 29 | erm Although one would hate to be , I do n't want to be accused of being elitist and saying that E H O's must do a particular job , but what I would like to say it that we need people who are trained to a sufficient level to be able to do the ultra high risk catering area , as distinct from other high-risk areas . |
| 30 | Indeed in The Times article already quoted Roger Scruton was particularly scornful of the Vice-Chancellors for their apparent readiness to change : they were accused of being interested only in the quantity , not the quality , of students ; and of being happy to lower their standards , and offer as items in university courses ‘ subjects ’ which have no proved intellectual value . |