Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trapped by nets or felled by corded arrow Hen and cock are parted one dawn . |
| 2 | Indeed , had Sheffield referee John Key not been so lenient , Wright could have been dismissed two or three times over . |
| 3 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 4 | THE eagerly-awaited reappearance of Champion hurdler Royal Gait has been delayed 24 hours until this afternoon due to the abandonment of yesterday 's meeting at Leopardstown . |
| 5 | Race officials claim the start of the run had been delayed 20 minutes to avoid the train but the race was running 10 minutes ahead of schedule . |
| 6 | Thurston , had arrived with a load of ammunition for the Beaufighters on 7th , but had been delayed three days in leaving again due to a heavy swell on the sea . |
| 7 | In the seventy-fourth island of the Black Sea , right in the middle , are hidden three reeds . |
| 8 | As it is , we are given five pages which briefly outline the genesis and original publication of the seven essays and only the briefest contextualisation of the pieces within a broader historical framework . |
| 9 | At VAG and Associated British Ports , employees are given two days ' special leave at the time of the move . |
| 10 | Thus perfectly safe four-seaters are given two extra ones ‘ for children ’ . |
| 11 | Pre-school children , presented with novel verbs describing unfamiliar actions , are given two types of input : cognitively available indications of argument structure , and syntactic indications of argument structure . |
| 12 | Caffeine enemas are given four hourly , as well as castor oil — orally or by enema — to aid detoxification . |
| 13 | Then the firm are given one year to make the grade . |
| 14 | As a result we are given one of the most blatant examples of a blonde floozie being added to a film purely for box-office considerations . |
| 15 | Well the servants three servants are given one talent and their master tells them to erm do with it what they could in a certain space of time and he would reward them . |
| 16 | Then they will baptise those they evangelise in the name of the Father , the Son , and the Holy Spirit ( 28:19 ) , but in the meantime they are given one trial run , if we may so call it , when they are sent out on a missionary journey ( Matt. 10:20 ) . |
| 17 | A letter written in November 1979 said : ‘ You are given twelve weeks ’ notice of dismissal from this company with effect from 5.11.79 . |
| 18 | Word pairs on this list are given a ’ validity score ’ of 1 , and those not on it are given 0 . |
| 19 | We are given 4 reasons for the changes : |
| 20 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 21 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 22 | Below are listed 16 questions based on stories that have appeared in The Insider over the past 12 months . |
| 23 | In the new document — The Patients ' Charter — there are listed seven existing rights ; the first of which states : Every citizen has the right to receive health care on the basis of clinical need regardless of the ability to pay' . |
| 24 | The transistor transformed the portable radio , cul-minating in the spectacle — bizarre if it had been witnessed 20 years earlier — of people going around with earphones and Walkmans . |
| 25 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 26 | Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture . |
| 27 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 28 | The heart of the team departed when scrum half and captain Nick Farr-Jones announced his retirement after the Springboks had been crushed 26–3 in Cape Town last August . |
| 29 | A 24 year old woman had been diagnosed five years previously and had persistent abdominal pain , diarrhoea , and ill health despite repeated courses of steroids . |
| 30 | In any event , they are adjusted one way or the other at the next meter reading . |