Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 2 | The prescription had been forged , and the medicines listed were all among those regularly used by Aldo Moro . |
| 3 | The Lucullan excesses which Hefner promised were all in the mind , at any rate as long as the Fifties lasted . |
| 4 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 5 | The dwellings are heated by communal gas boilers , the fuel used being heat-metered into each flat — occupants have the option of reducing or suspending the flow of the low-pressure hot water central hearing — while a ‘ landlord 's meter ’ records the amount of heat used in common areas . |
| 6 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 7 | The stand and materials used were similar to those used at the Steam Engine Rally . |
| 8 | At the end of the year l9X1 it was found that actual production overhead costs amounted to £160,000 in cost centre X and £138,000 in cost centre Y. The total direct labour cost in cost centre X was £144,200 and the machine hours used were 18,000 in cost centre Y during the year . |
| 9 | The instructions and scale used were identical to those used for Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 10 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 11 | Other deaths reported were 20 in the Netherlands , 10 in Belgium , eight in France , seven in West Germany , and four in Denmark . |
| 12 | However , both the research projects mentioned were dependent on aggregate published statistics , and although they provide useful overviews , they measure the impact of planning only indirectly . |
| 13 | It is now widely acknowledged ( except by saddoes ) that Dr Who stopped being good after Jon Pertwee in 1974 — but that makes 11 glorious years of top-class , home-spun cheap thrills in out space — a reign untouched by later , more sophist TV sci-fi . |
| 14 | Sir , when did it stopped being compulsory for you to have a tetanus jab ? |
| 15 | You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage . |
| 16 | Not that they stopped being scared at once , that first , frightened time . |
| 17 | It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please . |
| 18 | And it 's time you stopped being afraid of life . ’ |
| 19 | The areas visited were comparable to Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire . |
| 20 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 21 | She was pretty sure the only address listed was that of his college . |
| 22 | Here , everyone who entered was free to be Dreamer . |
| 23 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 24 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 25 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 26 | The most striking temper used was that of vegetable matter , known as grass-or chaff-tempering , perhaps added as a water-absorbing agent ( Brisbane 1983 , p. 254 ) . |
| 27 | Although we can not go into the technicalities of Ohmann 's method , it is worth mentioning that the apparatus he used was that of an earlier version of Transformational Grammar , one which subsequently underwent profound modifications . " |
| 28 | The main method used was that of interval harmony , which is adaptable enough to fit in with most serial situations . |
| 29 | Methods of conducting evaluation such as classroom observation and surveys of opinion within school were entirely absent from the appraisal and perhaps the only wide-scale method used was that of departmental discussion . |
| 30 | The method used was that of Burke and Axon as adapted from that of Lindahl et al . |