Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets .
2 These three big creatures dominate the composition , but around them are introduced small figures .
3 Again the stone walls are dark and streaked with rain and age , and along them are ranged carved figures , many badly worn and now almost unrecognizable .
4 Negative , extremist , in them are fused sectarian party orthodoxy and individual self-deliverance .
5 Eventually everyone leaves the room to shower and drink coffee and do all things that people usually do after intercourse — communally in this case — and Samantha and I are left alone .
6 Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration .
7 WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM ILL , HAVE AN ACCIDENT OR I AM MADE REDUNDANT ?
8 Q What happens if I am ill , have an accident or I am made redundant ?
9 I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at , and squeezed into this funny shape .
10 Alas that today of all days , when there will be opportunity for further converse with him , I am laid low with this horrid malady ! ’
11 I can only hope I am proved wrong : things have gone too far to turn back the tide .
12 If I buy a bus ticket for two persons , I am issued separate tickets .
13 If I buy a rail ticket for two persons , I am issued separate tickets .
14 I 'm made clean !
15 What he actually wanted to say was , I 'm struck dumb with love .
16 What should we think if someone tells us : ‘ I enjoy roast potatoes , but only at meals where I 'm served boiled potatoes ? ’
17 I 'm called full time Youth Evangelist and work for the Pembury Free Church .
18 ‘ Oh me — I 'm tickled pink .
19 You never quite know what they do or where they go in winter , though I 'm told Froggy had a sister in the Birmingham area . ’
20 And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good .
21 ‘ From what I 'm told old Sung is a docile man .
22 but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one
23 Never mind that I 'm buried alive here in this bloody fen with dour children .
24 I 'm considered expendable , naturally , and it would please Artai if I failed to return . ’
25 Cos I 'm sat dead .
26 ‘ Would you chaps mind terribly if Barry and I were left alone ? ’ the other Rex asked .
27 I were let good .
28 ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’
29 The first move will be to alert all my known contacts , to request that I be held incommunicado if I approach any of them … ’
30 There appear to be no special forms or procedures which are required to be adopted in the county court where someone is found guilty of contempt in the face of the court and committed to prison under section 118 of the County Courts Act 1984 , although no doubt , if such an event were to occur , the court would follow the general approach required by Ord. 29 , r.1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 ( as amended ) which applies in the case of committal for breach of injunctions .
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