Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the group fails , the leader is criticized for not being strong enough ! |
| 2 | Yeah , but in the beginning I 'd get criticized for not being quick enough in my , |
| 3 | During the heavy defeat in Australia he was criticized for not being able to instil spirit into a losing team , and was fully aware of his shortcomings . |
| 4 | Would he be punished for not being sorry ? |
| 5 | Not surprisingly these tribunals have been criticized as not being independent of the Ministry of Labour or of the Unemployment Assistance Board . |
| 6 | I know that today 's announcement will be a disappointment for them , and that those on the Tyne recognise that the response to all that they asked for previously was fair play . |
| 7 | Erm one from Paddy and I have an official letter er apologizing for not being able to be here . |
| 8 | They must , therefore , be dismissed as not being good in themselves , or not to any considerable degree . |
| 9 | Jon Gittens could be recalled after not being available for the cup-tie . |
| 10 | But you see with him being ill , he worries about not being able to bring money in . |
| 11 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 12 | ‘ We apologise for not being able to bring you the report from Riyadh . |
| 13 | Yeah , and then the idea is the verb you plug in there , whatever then you plug in there is fine . |
| 14 | Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present . |
| 15 | A photographer has to really be aware of this , and how light relates to colour and how it relates to black and white . |
| 16 | The first one just understand it , you want to actually be able to do it . |
| 17 | She was convinced the defector he referred to vaguely was important and Urquhart was her only source of information about him . |
| 18 | But at last there was a kind of to and fro between them , more like a tennis match perhaps than a genuine conversation , with words being patted back and forth , but Rose at least was grateful for it . |
| 19 | The defendants also contended that the lease provided for payment of a rent which pro tempore at least was illegal under the Counter Inflationary ( Business Rents ) Order , or , if the court found against them in that , then it was illegal under the Counter-Inflation Act , 1973 , s 17 . |
| 20 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 21 | Now the object of a handful of inquiries into influence-peddling and the mismanagement of taxpayers ' money , the EPA has at least been able to claim that its science is pure . |
| 22 | I 've never heard of not being able to pay by , you ca n't , it was cheque , Access , nowt . |
| 23 | He remembered what she 'd said about not being able to eat eggs . |
| 24 | An additional comment , raised during the plenary session , was that those from ethnic communities were rarely seen as a positive resource able to offer a new expertise , but that , rather , they were regarded as being doubly disadvantaged in that they were often seen as not being fluent users of English and not being part of the British culture . |
| 25 | That avenue is now regarded in some quarters as not nearly as strategic as cuddling up with Novell , despite the disappointment USL employees might feel in not being able to cash in their stock and options that way . |
| 26 | He believed there was a future for Swanage and therefore he had striven for a great number of years to improve it — ( laughter ) — but he was very glad that those who came from afar were pleased and satisfied . |
| 27 | This shows , for instance , that the element most closely related to extremely is fast : these two are co-constituents of the adjective phrase construction . |
| 28 | ‘ The Banks set out to break your Association , What they did was wrong and some of the things done since then are wrong ’ , said Mr. Peter Cassells , General Secretary to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions addressing the Biennial Delegate Conference of the IBOA at the Burlington Hotel on Saturday 24th April 1993 . |
| 29 | Still reeling from its ACE nightmare , MIPS 's market presence is seen to only be significant through its OEMs , according to the report . |
| 30 | ‘ I wish he 'd at least been honest with me and I could have divorced him . |