Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some deliberately seek high concentrations of brine and others regularly withstand being frozen solid . |
| 2 | However few who die are reckoned fit to enter directly into the presence of God and the vast majority of Roman Catholics expect to go first to Purgatory either on account of dying ‘ in venial sin ’ ( Catechism P. 32 ) or being ‘ indebted to God 's justice on account of mortal sin . ’ |
| 3 | A NORTH Wales council wants to ‘ buy time ’ for families who face being made homeless because of mortgage arrears . |
| 4 | Under that scheme , owners who face being made homeless due to mortgage arrears are allowed to stay in their homes as tenants for 12 months as the council takes up a head lease . |
| 5 | Whatever the reticence of archaeologists on the matter — perhaps they fear being thought fanciful by their academic colleagues — excavations have begun to confirm the details in legends and myths . |
| 6 | Subsidiary minima which occur at angles of rotation from the trans form are called gauche . |
| 7 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 8 | ‘ I can see that you 've been made upset . |
| 9 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 10 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 11 | I 've been made redundant . |
| 12 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 13 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 14 | We 've come to Jesus Christ , he 's forgiven us our sins , we 've been made new creatures , we are saved according to Athesians two eight . |
| 15 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 16 | Cos you do you 've not been anywhere unless you 've been made bankrupt in this place round here . |
| 17 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 18 | The S A S are already there and there are people that have been shot dead , unarmed people , civilians who 've been shot dead by the S A S. |
| 19 | turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header . |
| 20 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 21 | as two apostles of Jesus said we 've been declared righteous now by his word , the boy of Jesus God 's son |
| 22 | Now that you 've been proved right ? ’ |
| 23 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 24 | I suppose it helps both , does n't it , really , because if you 're trying to catch the teacher out , that means you 've got to know your lesson pretty well , because otherwise if you try to catch the teacher out and yet you 've been proved wrong , you 've had it really . |
| 25 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 26 | I know you 've been told different people different things . |
| 27 | We do n't want them thinking they 've been sold short or rumbled . ’ |
| 28 | That 's for things like looking after babies who 've been left alone too long , or playing with little kids who get lonely . |
| 29 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 30 | Except for one or two magistrates like Peck we 've been left alone , and have never done anything to trouble those who live around the forest . ’ |