Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essential that the Security Service should be kept absolutely free from political bias or influence and nothing should be done that might lend colour to any suggestion that it is concerned with the interests of any particular section of the community , or with any other matter than the Defence of the Realm as a whole . |
| 2 | I may be proved wrong , but I think they will be surprised at the change in the pace and intensity of international rugby since they 've been away . |
| 3 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 4 | In this way , the legal view of insanity really becomes a view regarding whether someone should be held responsible . |
| 5 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
| 6 | I 'll be kept alive until then . |
| 7 | I 'll be left alone ! ’ |
| 8 | The case for Solaris on Intel , however , does not appear a strong one for Stuart at present , ‘ although I could be proven wrong ’ , he said . |
| 9 | ‘ When it came to the birth I wanted to feel I could be left alone but have supportive people around me . |
| 10 | If you think I 'd be seen dead in that you must be mad . |
| 11 | Yet who 'd have thought I 'd be given another chance like this ? she thought . |
| 12 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 13 | Then he 'd pinch my lines which , of course , I could n't repeat , so I 'd be left speechless . ’ |
| 14 | After travelling ‘ with knitting ’ for many years , I knew that I would be made welcome when I arrived . |
| 15 | Like the other seven pupils , I would be given two one hour lessons , and then ½ hour on the fifth day . |
| 16 | Mummy , you must be mad if you think I would be seen dead in a yellow frock ! |
| 17 | At last it was decided that , as I had behaved so well up to now , I would be kept alive . |
| 18 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |
| 19 | Now , nightly , when Leon had finished playing and had closed his door again , I would be left sleepless , confused by the force of my neglected senses . |
| 20 | I remember I would be told infantile stories , altogether appropriate to my infantile station . |
| 21 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 22 | Moreover , as soon as the English think I know the name of their traitor , I will be kept safe . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps I will be thought outspoken , but so often it is those people who have moved into the country that complain . |
| 24 | When the last trump sounds and I stand before the Lord our God and am judged I will be found wanting and know not what to do . |
| 25 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 26 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 27 | And now finally — as we always seem to be saying at the conclusion of our news bulletins — perhaps I can be allowed one or two serious observations . |
| 28 | As we set out I wonder if I can be allowed more miracles and how the rest of my family and fellow pilgrims will be affected . |
| 29 | I think I can be excused this week cos thi , the wife 's away . |
| 30 | So the group at Shepherd 's Bush has a way to go before some of them might be deemed fit to audition there or at other vocational schools . |