Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Tradeco will enter into a Deed of Covenant with the church providing for a payment to be made equivalent to Tradeco 's total profits as computed for corporation tax purposes . |
| 2 | It would he a very revealing item of Bomber Command 's history were a tape to be made available today of that unfortunate telephone link-up , and for a cold assessment to be made of all the circumstances as known at the time . |
| 3 | Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry ( it can not be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive ) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering . |
| 4 | Although the European Court of Human Rights had declared that it would be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights for a child to be given corporal punishment against the philosophical or religious convictions of his/her parent , it was felt that the ruling did not revoke the teacher 's independent authority to administer punishment . |
| 5 | And he waited far too long in prison for a place to be made available in hospital . |
| 6 | All viewers residing in areas which are cabled have a right to be connected free of charge to a service which provides them with a minimum of public channels , a local channel , an educational channel and a community channel with a studio which is available to citizens and associations . |
| 7 | Now clearly there 's a distinction to be drawn oral oral communication and written communication but they were doing this generally . |
| 8 | ‘ Is it compassionate for a person to be kept alive with tubes going into their stomach ? |
| 9 | Certain children , whose names were on a list , were called up once a day to be given yellow capsules which had to be swallowed in front of the teacher . |
| 10 | What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ It is not usual for a king to be left alone in the field at the end of a withdrawal . |
| 12 | Although references to the presence of black people are available from the Roman period onward , especially in the early sixteenth century , the most famous of the early documented references is the arrival in 1555 of a group of five Africans , brought here by a merchant to be taught English so that they could return to Africa to act as interpreters for British traders . |
| 13 | But Rodrigo ordered a bed to be made ready for himself and for the leper , and they twain slept together . |
| 14 | Until recently , it was customary for a Speaker to be returned unopposed , but this practice has now been abandoned in a number of instances . |
| 15 | Lucky Jim is too confident a book to be called angry , its predominating mood a scorn for a stuffy old order about to be swept away ; but some of Amis 's later novels , such as Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , which was written by a sexagenarian , fizzle with fury . |
| 16 | Fixed-charge debentures rank above floating-charge debentures in the event of default , but only floating-charge debenture holders can ask for a company to be declared insolvent under the 1986 Insolvency Act . |
| 17 | However , it is , in theory , possible for a company to be made liable in relation to insider dealing offences . |