Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | That would kind of be kept a bit quiet was it ? |
2 | Erm there is publication that , these are be asked for be sent a copy to every mem member with it 's er in a way a milestone initiative in in the middle of work . |
3 | You 're not going to be gone a fortnight , I hope . |
4 | Yet if children are to be taught a love of literature and language , they surely need to be inspired by those whose love of literature and language is apparent and infectious . |
5 | Since the characters that helped the individual to succeed in the battle were the traditional Protestant virtues of enterprise , initiative and thrift , Spencer could project his philosophy as a new foundation for traditional morality , despite its tendency to encourage indifference to the suffering of those who still needed to be taught a lesson by a wise but harsh Nature . |
6 | They need to be taught a lesson ! |
7 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Boris ‘ You had to come to be taught a lesson . ’ |
8 | Méléra survived Verdun and the rest of the war , to be killed a fortnight before the Armistice . |
9 | If large numbers of animals are to be killed a euthanasia chamber can be used consisting of a container linked to a cylinder of carbon dioxide . |
10 | The fourth volume in the Vampire Chronicles , which has the wonderful Lestat yearning to be reborn a mortal in an entirely contemporary tale which is just brilliant . |
11 | To be validated a theory needs to pass a further test , which we might call the review test . |
12 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |
13 | This one is expected to be called A Vision Of The Earth . |
14 | And since the master-manufacturer also financed the provision of land , buildings , machinery and equipment he was — or had been — also what would come to be called a capitalist . |
15 | Prayer rugs , for example , are never referred to as carpets , and anything employing a hunting design would ten to be called a hunting carpet rather than a hunting rug . |
16 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |
17 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |
18 | Just what does something have to be for it to be called a god ? |
19 | The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable . |
20 | ‘ Oh ’ , she says , ‘ I 'm not going to be called a granny . ’ |
21 | Even here in the dusty , bounding Toyota , this old man has a distinctiveness , the clubbable , dependable qualities of what used to be called a gentleman . |
22 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
23 | On the former definition , pushing someone in a river would have to be called a signal because it certainly would change his behaviour-but this would be excluded by the definition requiring the influence of the signal to be mediated by the recipient 's sense organs . |
24 | Wide boy Gary chats up Sue but she does n't want to be called a slut . |
25 | And I had to say yes , because I did n't want to be called a snob too . |
26 | Yeah granddad I was saying you know when erm you know when Richard was saying it 's an insult to be called a cockney when he 's not a cockney . |
27 | It 's an insult to be called a cockney . |
28 | The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box . |
29 | To be called a tatie kite thus means you are both stupid and fat . |
30 | He described her as unfit to be called a Catholic and certainly unfit for motherhood . |