Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 2 | He was to bring Patrick back , any way he could , but the girl — if she was in Dublin — was to be taught a serious and possibly fatal lesson . |
| 3 | And they like to be taught a new board game |
| 4 | The very young inmates at Bohorok had to be taught a surprising number of basic skills , such as how to climb and walk upright on a branch , things they would normally have learned from their mothers . |
| 5 | Crews , here , were among the first in the country to be taught the additional medical skills that can save lives . |
| 6 | There even men with the basic training of craft workers ( preferably in metals ) had still to be taught the specific skills of the skilled factory worker . |
| 7 | To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run . |
| 8 | The length of the queues in Windhoek and Katutura , two of the most densely populated urban areas in Namibia , triggered conjecture that the poll might have to be extended an extra day . |
| 9 | Those are likely to be extended the following year to include time waits between GP referral and an appointment with a consultant . |
| 10 | A competitive attitude is something that has to be applied every single minute of the working day , arid every day of the week . |
| 11 | And we can see the rates for which the deduction is going to be applied the other side . |
| 12 | But , in those days , to defend the House of Lords was to be dubbed a shameful reactionary . |
| 13 | Prepare to be led a merry dance — perhaps emotionally , perhaps materially — and prepare also to deal with a series of tough situations . |
| 14 | I do not mourn for Mr. Fyfe , but is he to be branded a dishonest man because of the Government 's insensitivity in railroading through these unwanted applications ? |
| 15 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |
| 16 | For weeks it threatened to be a cesspit of scandal , and not to be outdone the controversial English striker Stan Bowles , whose behaviour over the years made him seem like a surrogate Scot , admitted that he frequently took drugs . |
| 17 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 18 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 19 | used to be called a ragged school . |
| 20 | But it used to be called a ragged school . |
| 21 | But if this is to be called a rational method , it is so , from Stevenson 's point of view , mainly because it consists in letting one 's attitudes be moulded by rational factual beliefs . |
| 22 | When one gets right down to it , I doubt very much whether you 're fit to be called a bad lot . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 24 | If I 'm making a film of myself and I 'm on probation , at the end of the year I can pass or fail or have my probation extended because I 'm not successful enough to be called a qualified teacher , then I 'm opening myself up for people to come and look at my mistakes . |
| 25 | The original reasons for seeking a Royal Charter remain : it would give greater status to the Association , its members and indeed the whole industry ; we would enjoy the endorsement by the Privy Council to our qualifications for membership ; recognition by the Privy Council would add weight to the Association 's opinion on issues when lobbying Government or debating with others ; our members would have the Privy Council 's endorsement of being true professionals with the opportunityfor a Corporate member to be called a Chartered Hotelier or a Chartered Caterer . |
| 26 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 27 | You are what used to be called a White Russian . ’ |
| 28 | This used to be called a tight fiscal policy . |
| 29 | I 'm never never one for for making work but on an a on although this is n't going to be called an annual report for most children it will be an annual event and I do feel quite strongly that for the child to be able to have the opportunity |
| 30 | Discourse analysts have for over a decade been probing the properties of what has come to be called the conversational ‘ turn ’ . |