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 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | The stand and materials used were similar to those used at the Steam Engine Rally . |
| 6 | The instructions and scale used were identical to those used for Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sir , when did it stopped being compulsory for you to have a tetanus jab ? |
| 11 | You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage . |
| 12 | Not that they stopped being scared at once , that first , frightened time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And it 's time you stopped being afraid of life . ’ |
| 15 | The areas visited were comparable to Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire . |
| 16 | Here , everyone who entered was free to be Dreamer . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 19 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee disagreed , recommending that a verdict of manslaughter should be possible where the use of some force was justified by the occasion and where D honestly believed that the force he used was reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 20 | Hire purchase , credit sale and conditional sale advertising had to give a comprehensive picture of costs ( if it mentioned any financial terms ) , and any interest rate it quoted had to approximate to a true annual rate of interest , but the formula used was different from the one in the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 21 | Only the night she died , the bucket she used was full of oil , not water . ’ |
| 22 | Quite apart from the scale of any observed effects , and of rather more theoretical importance , was the issue of whether any biochemical change we found was unique to , say , imprinting in the young chick , so that memory for other types of behaviour in older birds or in other species would involve quite different processes . |
| 23 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 24 | He 'd been unhappy at her leaving without some commitment , anxious that she should have the ‘ protection ’ of his ring on her finger . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 26 | She 'd been used to hopping around and flapping about wherever she pleased , so it came as a bit of a shock to find her freedom of movement restricted by the jesses . |
| 27 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
| 28 | He could tell she 'd been used to ordering people about at one time . |
| 29 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 30 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |