Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if the mother were to be killed leaving a surviving father , without a court order or agreement , there would be no one legally responsible for the child . |
| 2 | Data is also to be obtained using a similar battery of tests from a sample of dyslexic children with specific and unexpected reading retardation . |
| 3 | Conservation propaganda has made fashionable women genuinely ashamed to be seen wearing a leopard-skin coat . |
| 4 | Next to Assad 's Syria , Colonel Gaddafi 's Libya had become little more than a refuge for Palestinian extremists , a useful quartermaster s supply depot for arms and explosives , and a convenient whipping boy for Western governments anxious to be seen taking a strong line on terrorism without risking their strategic interests in the Middle East . |
| 5 | Crawford 's character , Harry England , had to be seen driving a forty-year-old Rolls-Royce convertible into the ten-feet-deep swimming pool of a château above Cannes after getting drunk . |
| 6 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |
| 7 | ‘ If this ever came to court it would n't look good for an older woman to be seen enticing a young boy into marriage — ’ |
| 8 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 9 | Therefore during every working day many thousands of items had to be delivered causing a great deal of work , plus a security risk . |
| 10 | Optimum results seem to be produced using a separate dynamic or electret stick microphone . |
| 11 | That one small doubt became a huge question mark two days later when , before the opening home game with Arsenal , Knighton took the field in a United playing strip ( having refused the previous day to be photographed holding a United shirt ) and juggled , headed and kicked a football in front of a at first incredulous and then delighted Stretford End . |