Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 2 | Recent introductions from America such as N. Charlene Strawn and N. Texas Dawn are proving to be promising and therefore becoming popular . |
| 3 | Open years are proving to be open wounds for Lloyd 's . |
| 4 | This had not been intended to be legalistic , but in practice the claimant had been put in the position of an ordinary plaintiff in a civil case arguing a case against a powerful insurance company or mutual insurance society ( Potter and Stansfield , 1950 ) . |
| 5 | However , in the past , many observations have been recognized to be valid before any rational or logical explanation could be advanced to account for them . |
| 6 | The standard method of recovery must be taught because it has been proven to be effective during testing . |
| 7 | ‘ Such a man , with a good track record can fight for his plant and his people on the very strong grounds that investment in his region has been proven to be successful . |
| 8 | The allergens produced by House Dust Mites have been proven to be dangerous ‘ triggers ’ especially for Asthma attacks and allergic Rhinitis ( nasal congestion without a ‘ cold ’ ) and even in cases of Eczema . |
| 9 | Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot . |
| 10 | Barnes , 30 , added : ‘ I knew fairly soon that I was out of the Test match and now I am struggling to be fit for the Taranaki game on Wednesday . |
| 11 | Managers , he notes , are taught to be tough , which can mean they sometimes take a decision regardless of its ethical consequences . |
| 12 | As I hope to demonstrate later , by far the largest majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than antisocial . |
| 13 | For example , it has been criticized for being unable to deal with problems of unemployment , which continued to rise throughout the 1980s . |
| 14 | They have been criticized for being slow ( a minimum of a 3-week offer is involved ) , cumbersome and expensive . |
| 15 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 16 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
| 17 | These ‘ developmental sequences ’ are intended to be hierarchical : ‘ each sequence of steps in different domains of development progresses towards and overlaps with National Curriculum Attainment Targets ’ ( Webster and Webster 1990 : 9 ) . |
| 18 | These recipes are intended to be unadulterated bliss . |
| 19 | These principles are intended to be good practices that data users should comply with in order to protect the data they hold , in both their interests and those of their data subjects . |
| 20 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
| 21 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
| 22 | The November and December 1993 talks are intended to be joint meetings with our sister society , SWSHAS , the local history society . |
| 23 | Legal aid is not generally available for tribunals , they are intended to be cheap and both sides are clearly expected to bear their own costs . |
| 24 | Associations with bells or illuminated disks are rather artificial , but they are intended to be experimental versions of things that would be important in nature . |
| 25 | The reason for this , however , is that almost all the references are found in what are intended to be exhaustive lists of ways of acquiring property : heretics , for instance , are debarred from acquiring under any title including legacy and trust ; curial property received in any way ( including legacy and trust ) is taxable . |
| 26 | Practice Notes are intended to be persuasive , rather than prescriptive , and have a lower level of authority than Statements of Auditing Standards . |
| 27 | ‘ When he took me into the lead I did n't want to be there that soon — so many horses have been caught after being clear , ’ he said . |
| 28 | In the bat , the five fingers have been programmed to be long in order to support the web for flying . |
| 29 | Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles . |
| 30 | Nowadays the victims are blamed for being vulnerable . |