Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the rest of the reign the two nobles apparently co-operated , and were in particular careful to avoid being drawn into disputes between their men . |
| 2 | For the rest of the reign the two nobles apparently co-operated , and were in particular careful to avoid being drawn into disputes between their men . |
| 3 | Brix Smith certainly means to keep up the progress : ’ I 've considered dyeing my hair brown to avoid being seen as another of today 's toy blonde singers . ’ |
| 4 | An announcement by the FPR-LZ in April 1991 that it was willing to demobilize was thought to be conditional on the government agreeing to electoral and legal reforms . |
| 5 | The Cambridge Theatre Company 's production of The Revengers Tragedy — a work believed by some to have been written by Thomas Middleton , others by Cyril Tourneur — opened this week at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford where it runs until tomorrow ( Saturday ) before transferring on its tour to the Theatre Royal , Winchester from Tuesday to Saturday next week . |
| 6 | A regular flow of books and short stories followed , among them : The Mystery of the Sea ( 1902 ) ; The Jewel of Seven Stars ( 1903 ) , a tale of Egyptian reincarnation ; The Man ( 1905 ) , a melodrama ; Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving , in two volumes ( 1906 ) ; Lady Athlyne ( 1908 ) , a romance ; Snowbound ( 1908 ) , a collection of short stories ; The Lady of the Shroud ( 1909 ) , which reached its twentieth edition in 1934 ; Famous Imposters ( 1910 ) , which included the story of the Bisley Boy , believed by some to have been substituted for the future Queen Elizabeth in childhood ; and finally The Lair of the White Worm ( 1911 ) , in which he revived the legend of a gigantic serpent capable of assuming human form . |
| 7 | One simple solution which is easy to interpret is obtained by requiring that each term in the wave equation is separately zero . |
| 8 | While their challenge was clearly the most serious to have been presented to President Ceausescu , and was made with the full knowledge of important facts , it was also made by people who have long since left the political scene , mainly having retired , or been retired — prematurely — by Mr Ceausescu . |
| 9 | For instance , Hickey includes many conversational passages that purport to be verbatim records , but must be reconstructions of what Hickey thought was appropriate to have been said on the occasion . |
| 10 | The Sutton pupils were very relieved to have been accepted by their new partners . |
| 11 | … a person who has been fortunate to have been connected with Guiding for the past 18 years . |
| 12 | The conductor and pianist Myung Whun Chung , director of the Opéra-Bastille , writes : We have all been fortunate to have been touched by the spirit of Olivier Messiaen through his music and I , personally , also by his human qualities . |
| 13 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 14 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 15 | Well , nothing is real , we are fortunate to have been reminded by Candy Flip , so who was that quote referring to ? |
| 16 | I was fortunate to have been associated with him in this development over the first half of the 1940s . |
| 17 | Such mutual respect , of course , is one of the fundamental elements of high morale , dependability and efficiency , and I count myself fortunate to have been associated with such people for over a quarter of a century . |
| 18 | I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit , overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the ‘ jolly ’ , but someone ‘ pulled rank ’ and took my place , thus saving my life and losing his . |
| 19 | But unless it is possible to escape being moved from other viewpoints , our selfishness can not perfect itself to its theoretical absolute except in such circumstances as a tooth-and-claw fight for survival . |
| 20 | No significant side effects attributable to octreotide were observed during the study . |
| 21 | In extreme winds ( Force 6+ ) you have to keep very low to avoid being thrown over the front . |
| 22 | The damage , is fairly obvious to see is produced by these two and it 's worth pointing out that persistence can be related to this catalase enzyme . |
| 23 | For Field 's piano concertos , two of which O'Conor is playing with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this week , contain astonishing music , material which it is hard to believe was conceived at the turn of the 18th to 19th century . |
| 24 | He was lucky to have been born in this particular tribe . |
| 25 | The inventor of the German action is not known but it was used in a square piano signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ This piano is more likely to have been made by Johann Gottfried Silbermann ( 1722–63 ) rather than by his more famous uncle , Gottfried ( 1683–1753 ) . |
| 26 | By contrast the rare finds of silver objects from Bronze Age Europe , notably those from Sardinia , north Italy and the el Argar culture in southern Spain , are likely to have been made from local occurrences of native metals or ores . |
| 27 | The bulk of those who remain interested in UFOs seem less likely to have been motivated by personal experience and are more willing to undergo the reappraisal needed to rationalise their approach . |
| 28 | The fact that the final article is likely to have been polished by Sir David English , the editor and long-standing friend of Margaret Thatcher , prompted speculation that the Number 10 knives were out for the Chancellor , and that his days might be numbered . |
| 29 | Trends in infections likely to have been transmitted by unprotected sexual intercourse between men were analysed for indications of changes in sexual behaviour . |
| 30 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |