Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patchwork quilt of powers and relationships stipulated by the Constitution has been criticized for being neither useful nor relevant in the political environment of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 2 | The concept of ‘ instinct ’ can be criticized for being logically circular . |
| 3 | The pragmatists , and Dewey in particular , have been criticized for being overly optimistic about the power of creative intelligence to reconstruct social institutions through a programme of educational reform . |
| 4 | Latterly , he had been criticized for being more concerned about " restoring dignity to politics " and strengthening Slovenia 's Catholic and conservative traditions than about solving the economic problems resulting from communist rule and independence . |
| 5 | Although these characters have been criticized for being too emblematic , they arguably symbolise America 's divided attitude towards the war . |
| 6 | More seriously , the proposed authorities were criticized for being too large and too remote . |
| 7 | I can not understand why our pigs were criticized for being too fat because the meat was so sweet and tender , almost like chicken . |
| 8 | What he asked for is easily purchasable and easily disposable . |
| 9 | The trouble was that the things he wanted to write about were too big to fit into the exercise book . |
| 10 | He was blamed for being too lax a disciplinarian , and indeed for the defeat on the snap ‘ cordite ’ vote on 21 June 1895 which saw the government resign . |
| 11 | However , concern over the accountability aspect of the appraisal led the head of department to point out that he was torn between being brutally honest and papering over the cracks . |
| 12 | ‘ You need not apologize for being so upset , ’ Morton said quietly . |
| 13 | Charlie went on to ride 109 winners in that calendar year but his total for the current season which ends in May , looks like being even bigger . |
| 14 | Apart from the agitation over conditions and pay in the mid-1960s which led to a new contract and the " renaissance of general practice " the profession was virtually untouched by governments of either party , although the escalating demands on the hospital service which successive governments tried to grapple with were largely GP-induced . |
| 15 | e.g. " The Liberal-Labour coalition , which had come into being around 1900 , was committed to the extension of democracy . " |
| 16 | The American railroad companies boasted their own King Ludwigs and some of their creations succeeded in being both fantastical and architecturally exciting . |
| 17 | And compared with so self-evident a need , the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant . |
| 18 | The system would be designed to be particularly user-friendly , emphasising the enhancement of worker skills rather than de-skilling . |
| 19 | Its moisturising matte formula is designed to be particularly long-lasting , too . |
| 20 | The questionnaire was designed to be largely self-explanatory and relatively quick to complete . |
| 21 | GCE O level and CSE were designed to be wholly different kinds of examinations . |
| 22 | Outdoor relief was removed , and the indsigent were consigned to workhouses which were designed to be punitively unattractive . |
| 23 | Covering 13,000 square metres and designed to be both relaxing and inspirational , the centre 's facilities are quite simply superb . |
| 24 | TXN 600 texturised nylon designed to be both light and hard wearing . |
| 25 | The courses were Linguistics-based and were designed to be professionally relevant in a broad sense , though they included much that made no claim to immediate practical usefulness . |
| 26 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 27 | A touring boat is designed to be directionally stable . |
| 28 | The new 2–10 ml Finnpipette has been designed to be as simple to use as any standard volume instrument . |
| 29 | In addition , the coding system used to describe the condition of items was designed to be as simple and unambiguous as possible . |
| 30 | The AA Foundation study also suggests that car radio/cassette players should be designed to be as automatic as possible , and sold with an information leaflet highlighting the possible influences of music on driving . |