Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be christened the Teddy Bear 's Picnic — Europe 's biggest teddy bear 's picnic according to advance promotional material but Radio 1 has decided that sentimentality over lost childhood went out with Smashy and Nicey . |
| 2 | By the time Labour left office in October 1951 , its Cabinet machine — what might be called the Attlee-Brook model — was enormous . |
| 3 | The most developed exposition of what might be called the Katib Celebi view is to be found in d'Ohsson , who writes : |
| 4 | The neo-American model might be called the Thatcher-Reagan model , while the Rhine model should also properly include Japan along with Germany , the Benelux countries , Switzerland , Scandinavia and , arguably , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 5 | Historically it could be called the Taxman 's Revenge . |
| 6 | Eliot certainly appreciated Hayward 's caustic wit and was himself , according to Hayward , " … a connoisseur of the ridiculous , an ironical commentator on human folly , a lover of allusive quotation ( particularly from the dicta of Sherlock Holmes and other eminent detectives ) , and a passionate observer of what may be called the Bouvard et Pécuchet way of life " . |
| 7 | On the same canal may be seen the Chirk aqueduct and tunnel . |
| 8 | He would be re-elected for Haggerston in 1900 and in 1903 would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 9 | As will be recalled the Lugbara trace the causes of unmerited misfortunes to those power-hungry elders who hang on to office , although no longer capable . |
| 10 | The hotel which was to be run by The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company , will be called the London Wilshire . |
| 11 | The 1994 diary will be called The Redstone Diary and has colour plates of printed ephemera collected by artists who have visited India |
| 12 | It 's expected it will be called the Rover six hundred . |
| 13 | ‘ Only an immediate reassurance that Rosyth will be awarded the Trident refit work will safeguard thousands more jobs in Fife , ’ he said . |
| 14 | In this view from the Round House towards THE SQUARE — a typical contradiction — can be seen the Trocadero on the corner of the substantial block of buildings which replaced the ‘ bankers ’ . |
| 15 | Unless some of these problems can be overcome the GMC 's recommendations will be impossible to implement . |
| 16 | These three parts of your analysis — Antecedent events , Behaviour , and Consequences — can be termed the ABC , or basic units that you need to consider if you want to change your behaviour in the way you wish . |