Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will work so much better on the day if they are given that advance preparation . |
| 2 | Contradictory discourses and practices within and between these agencies of socialization are given little serious attention . |
| 3 | However it is current , and its coverage — fiction , biography , travel , hobbies , popular science , etc. — is of subjects which interest the public library 's clientele , and which are given little critical attention by other sources . |
| 4 | But , unlike its predecessor , both these and the earlier historical items are given little social or economic context . |
| 5 | We are given some financial support from the government but this doe snot cover all our costs and we therefore depend on gifts from trusts , companies and individuals . |
| 6 | ‘ Unless something is done and we are given some special dispensation we will never be happy with this . ’ |
| 7 | If they are given another four or five years to bed in , no Government would dare to reverse them , any more than Labour could take back council houses from their new owners , or renationalise privatised industry . |
| 8 | If the young daughters of women with gonorrhoea are examined some 5 per cent will be found to be suffering from a gonococcal vulva-vaginitis . |
| 9 | At present , there are no arrangements to open Miró 's studio , in which are stacked some thirty boldly brushed but unfinished canvases upon which the artist was working at his end of his career . |
| 10 | He accused ‘ powers which are situated many thousands of kilometres from this region ’ of having ‘ concentrated a naval armada ’ in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean and of ‘ intensively building up armaments , expanding the network of their military bases and pressuring and threatening small countries that do not follow their lead ’ . |
| 11 | The Faculty is one of the largest of its type in Europe , consisting of six Departments in which are located some 180 members of academic staff , each contributing to the strength of the Faculty with their scholarship and expertise . |
| 12 | In so far as these subordinated forms of racism are granted some relative autonomy , and are not treated as simply an echo of the dominant ideology , the argument usually reverts to the classical tenets of a ‘ necessary false consciousness ’ . |
| 13 | On these features are imposed several other psychological symptoms , many of which are known to be common to semistarvation , irrespective of its cause . |
| 14 | Such disputes , wrote a successful English diplomat in the 1670s , " seem to me but so many impertinencies that are grown this last age into the character of Ambassadors ; having been raised and cultivated by men , who , wanting other talents to value themselves upon in those employments , endeavoured to do it by exactness or niceties in the forms " . |
| 15 | Others are owed much more , but that 's little consolation . |
| 16 | Parents are made most welcome at all times and are encouraged to look at their child 's problems realistically and positively . |
| 17 | Right next question is the one where you 're given these two complex numbers , and you 're asked to show the , the modules of Z one squared is two times the modules of Z two squared . |
| 18 | Erm , but we 're told this interesting thing about them , mainly that , er about them and about us as well , that their true self is not their current bodily condition . |
| 19 | ‘ At least they 're spared all this war business , ’ Margaret said with a sigh . |
| 20 | ‘ On the other hand , if you 're a character actress you 're allowed much more freedom to question the role you 've been given , and to go more deeply into it to find a means of playing the part . |
| 21 | We first of all we used to give the food parcel every fortnight because it was half one week and half the next and now it 's a food parcel every week so they they 're guaranteed that basic sustenance you know and erm and we 'll keep up the up th up the fund raising and the money 's certainly still pouring in . |
| 22 | We are concerned to challenge the extent to which those involved in this restricted form of transition are offered any real choices in decision-making . |
| 23 | We are told much less of Mrs Tibbs 's appearance — only , indeed , that she is ‘ somewhat short in stature ’ — while the opening sentence , which describes her personality , is comparatively so brief that she seems to reflect the house , not vice versa . |
| 24 | AUSTRALIA are promised another rough ride when they face power-packed Monmouthshire at Ebbw Vale today . |
| 25 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 26 | Courses for health visitors provided by the HVA are geared much more to the needs of that group , and these are discussed on pages 67–9 . |
| 27 | They too have children , with similar needs , but they are allocated much less because , rather than staying on the dole , their parents wished to return to college and get qualifications to get them back into work . |
| 28 | If new problems or concerns are introduced some existing ones are given up . |
| 29 | When a large number of products are involved this considerable effort may not be worthwhile until all overhead allocations are routinely reviewed . |
| 30 | When a large number of products are involved this considerable effort may not be worthwhile until all overhead allocations are routinely reviewed . |