Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury . |
| 2 | It seems that young women fear having the terms applied to them ( by men and also by one another ) , and they police their self-presentation and sexual behaviour to avoid being labelled slags . |
| 3 | And then there was another game we used to play was called Peggy . |
| 4 | That is one reason why many consumer-goods firms which reckon all they need to do is cut prices temporarily will probably be proved wrong . |
| 5 | All I want to do is read Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals instead of cleaning the oven , then pop over to see Tony now and again . |
| 6 | The first thing any retailer needs to do is let people know he is there ! |
| 7 | By then all they wanted to do was set foot on dry land . |
| 8 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 9 | Preston might have preferred to have been called Blackpool , all things considered . |
| 10 | It has been an open secret for several months that Hill Samuel was willing to entertain reasonable offers and several possible buyers have apparently shown an interest , but Brewin Dolphin is understood to have been given exclusivity in the negotiations earlier this month . |
| 11 | Following her husband 's death , she is said to have been given Weston Hall as a Valentine present by her father [ Sitwell , 5 ] . |
| 12 | In two separate instances , at least four persons were reported to have been killed Peshawar and Karachi after being hit by stray bullets as a result of aerial firing by trigger happy individuals . |
| 13 | SBus performance is also claimed to have been increased 25% . |
| 14 | In places , they are so crowded that their bodies touch and the cliff seems to have been painted crimson . |
| 15 | Howard 's influence as a kind of unofficial gadfly and inspector of prisons was significant ; his parliamentary and legislative contribution more so , although in retrospect there seem to have been missed opportunities and errors . |
| 16 | Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ? |
| 17 | The dog-handled pot-lids from Mochlos , for example , seem to show a particular dog relaxing on a particular afternoon in the hot bronze age sunshine ; the crowds in the miniature frescoes seem alive with the excitement of the spectacle they are witnessing , and seem to have been caught mid-shout ; the hoopoes in the Pilgrim Hostel fresco seem at first glance to have fallen from the pages of some bronze age edition of Audubon . |
| 18 | Now that the legal framework for the rest of the century appears to have been set attention can be given to the task of interpreting it for governors . |
| 19 | 45:10 : in times of famine nomads from Palestine are known to have been allowed pasturage in the eastern delta . |
| 20 | So little bone and teeth remain in buzzard and red kite pellets after digestion , even though prey is known to have been ingested whole , that usable samples are not produced . |
| 21 | NOW YOU 'VE stopped laughing at the idea of Kevin Costner in tights , you can have a chuckle at the cast rumoured to be lined up for his Robin Hood movie Prince Of Thieves — Danny DeVito ( above ) as Friar Tuck , either Patsy Kensit , Emily Lloyd or Imogen Stubbs as Maid Marian and as Robin 's big buddy Little John , John Goodman , who is reported to have been paid $750,000 just to stay interested in playing Fred Flintstone while the producers look for a script |
| 22 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 23 | Moreover , for Diuma to have been consecrated bishop of the Middle Angles and Mercians ( assuming that Bede has not made an error here ) , while Penda remained a heathen , must have been tantamount to treating Penda 's territory as a northern Anglian sphere of influence . |
| 24 | This is where systems technology took over from the tools , and the change of emphasis may prove to have been programmed learning 's greatest gift to education . |
| 25 | It revealed Ulster youngsters were the most likely to have been offered drugs ( 21pc compared with a national average of 10pc ) , were least likely to drink ( 21pc compared with 30pc ) but were most likely to smoke ( 36pc compared with 18pc ) . |
| 26 | An order requiring the contravener to repay the purchase price of the shares would not be capable of restoring the parties to their respective former positions unless the obligation to repay were made conditional on the tender of the share certificates . |
| 27 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 28 | Having in Scotland lost the vote for the ordination of women to the priesthood , it seemed profitable to argue that women should be ordained to the diaconate ( that is to say be made deacons , not simply deaconesses ) . |