Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not going to be gone a fortnight , I hope . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They need to be taught a lesson ! |
| 5 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Boris ‘ You had to come to be taught a lesson . ’ |
| 6 | In times when there is occasion for rejoicing as , for example , in the gathering of a successful harvest , a happy emergence from trouble or natural disaster and on many other occasions there is always to be observed an urge to offer thanks to someone or something . |
| 7 | Méléra survived Verdun and the rest of the war , to be killed a fortnight before the Armistice . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To be validated a theory needs to pass a further test , which we might call the review test . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | This one is expected to be called A Vision Of The Earth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |
| 16 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |
| 17 | Just what does something have to be for it to be called a god ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh ’ , she says , ‘ I 'm not going to be called a granny . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Wide boy Gary chats up Sue but she does n't want to be called a slut . |
| 24 | And I had to say yes , because I did n't want to be called a snob too . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It 's an insult to be called a cockney . |
| 27 | The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box . |
| 28 | To be called a tatie kite thus means you are both stupid and fat . |
| 29 | He described her as unfit to be called a Catholic and certainly unfit for motherhood . |
| 30 | This has been in use in the works office for some time , it was , it used to be called an aide-memoire . |