Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're not going to be gone a fortnight , I hope . |
| 2 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 3 | Nostalgia aside , this guitar is eminently playable , although it has to be said the balance problem is a pain in the shoulder . |
| 4 | There has also been a certain amount of experimental work by linguists and psychologists which supports the hypothesis that for current speakers of English , generic masculines are interpreted as masculine rather than generic — though it has to be said the results of this work are not entirely clear-cut , except perhaps in the case of generic man . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The very young inmates at Bohorok had to be taught a surprising number of basic skills , such as how to climb and walk upright on a branch , things they would normally have learned from their mothers . |
| 7 | He was to bring Patrick back , any way he could , but the girl — if she was in Dublin — was to be taught a serious and possibly fatal lesson . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They need to be taught a lesson ! |
| 10 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Boris ‘ You had to come to be taught a lesson . ’ |
| 11 | And they like to be taught a new board game |
| 12 | To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run . |
| 13 | Thus Adalbert 's monastic background , so far in geographical distance from the Slav missions ( but not on that account far from people who needed to be taught the basics of Christianity ) , shows pastoral awareness . |
| 14 | All those who were familiar with the works of Kerschensteiner knew that the task of the schools was to educate their pupils to serve their fellow citizens ; they were to be taught the value of joy in work as service . |
| 15 | They need to be taught the consequences of their behaviour and that it is not acceptable . |
| 16 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 17 | Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own . |
| 18 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 19 | There even men with the basic training of craft workers ( preferably in metals ) had still to be taught the specific skills of the skilled factory worker . |
| 20 | Crews , here , were among the first in the country to be taught the additional medical skills that can save lives . |
| 21 | It 's very annoying to be faced every week with magazines introducing new slimming diets . |
| 22 | Such terms as ‘ idiot ’ and ‘ imbecile ’ have even attained a certain respectability , to be joined no doubt in time , by such terms as ‘ moron ’ and ‘ cretin ’ . |
| 23 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The length of the queues in Windhoek and Katutura , two of the most densely populated urban areas in Namibia , triggered conjecture that the poll might have to be extended an extra day . |
| 26 | Those are likely to be extended the following year to include time waits between GP referral and an appointment with a consultant . |
| 27 | ‘ We did say we 'd limit him to thirty mares as he 's been so busy competing , but somehow we managed to allow our arms to be twisted a few times . |
| 28 | A competitive attitude is something that has to be applied every single minute of the working day , arid every day of the week . |
| 29 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |
| 30 | And we can see the rates for which the deduction is going to be applied the other side . |