Example sentences of "[subord] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On March 8 Labour Minister Norbert Blüm announced the government 's intention to extend by six months ( to end-1991 ) its " short-time " policy , whereby employees for whom there was little or no work nevertheless received 70 per cent of their salary rather than be made redundant . |
| 2 | What could they do , except be made miserable by impotence ? |
| 3 | ‘ It 's better than being eaten alive . ’ |
| 4 | The Court ruled on April 24 that the government was entitled to dismiss up to 600,000 former East German civil servants who at the time of unification had been given temporary contracts rather than being made redundant . |
| 5 | He 's as well sit pushing papers around pretending to be busy but drawing the salary than being made redundant which is what ought to be happening . |
| 6 | It looks better on your record than being made redundant |
| 7 | The drawing of inferences is an essential part of discourse interpretation because very often essential information is implied rather than being made explicit . |
| 8 | The other crab , rather than being left homeless and therefore extremely vulnerable to predators , instantly jumped into the broken shell . |
| 9 | Taking as a practical measure of insulation the ‘ clo ’ unit ( equivalent to normal clothing worn by a human at rest in an ambient temperature of 20°C ) , wolves and polar bears carry insulation of 6 7 clo , and arctic foxes in winter carry 8 clo , rather more than is deemed efficient for human polar clothing . |
| 10 | It may , for example , be necessary to undertake more home visiting than is thought usual , at least until the time when the bereaved person feels more able to go out and face the world again . |
| 11 | The study , by the Greater Glasgow Health Board , revealed that more than a tenth of all newborn babies in Glasgow entered the world with more lead in their blood than is considered safe for adults … |
| 12 | In particular , group means need to be used rather more circumspectly than was thought necessary in the early studies . |
| 13 | It provided a genuine incentive for the worker to intensify his labour and thus raise his productivity , a guarantee against slacking , an automatic device for reducing the wage-bill in times of depression , as well as a convenient method — by the cutting of piece-rates — to reduce labour costs and to prevent wages from rising higher than was thought necessary or proper . |
| 14 | Painted in the Company 's all yellow colour scheme and registered as SE–BRD , the Firefly flew with the Swedish company for thirteen years until being declared redundant , whereupon the aircraft was put up for disposal along with three other Mk 1s . |
| 15 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 16 | The tradition of the non-political civil service demands that ministers should be helped to put their ideas into practice , while being made aware of the pitfalls ; but impartial civil servants should not put political ideas into ministers ' heads . |
| 17 | July 27 : Vickers 798D Viscount XA-SCM of Aero Eslava crashed into a mountainside at 10,000ft , 20 miles east of Mexico City while being ferried empty from Puebla to Mexico City in bad weather with rain and poor visibility . |
| 18 | Within an area of special control the general rule is that no advertisement may be displayed ; such advertisements as are given express consent are considered as exceptions to this general rule . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) An institution shall not be regarded as conducting its business in a prudent manner unless it maintains or , as the case may be , will maintain net assets which , together with other financial resources available to the institution of such nature and amount as are considered appropriate by the Bank , are — ( a ) of an amount which is commensurate with the nature and scale of the institution 's operations ; and ( b ) of an amount and nature sufficient to safeguard the interests of its depositors and potential depositors , having regard to the particular factors mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 3 ) below and any other factors appearing to the Bank to be relevant . |
| 20 | At the very least , the employee may need to show that the customer began to make an active search for an alternative supplier when be became aware that the patented article had to undergo important technical refinements after it had been put into use . |
| 21 | Their employment was recorded as full time ( a housewife was considered as being employed full time ) , part time , retired , or unemployed . |
| 22 | One important factor to test is the assumed exogeneity of wealth , i.e. whether wealth can be thought of as being determined prior to its allocation amongst individual assets . |
| 23 | To be sure , the characteristics of the transcendent self remain in play : to become what others saw him as being required great self-discipline ‘ similar to spiritual exercises ’ ; eventually he aspires to a classical stoic independence of spirit , a kind of sainthood ( p. 146 ) . |
| 24 | The reproduction of symbolic dimensions of space consists of the production and consumption of space , which manifest themselves as being interwoven institutional practices in the field of communication . |
| 25 | We told the controller that we 'd keep clear of the storm as were cleared direct to Dinard . |
| 26 | ‘ ( 1 ) The cash equivalent of any benefit chargeable to tax under section 61 above is an amount equal to the cost of the benefit , less so much ( if any ) of it as is made good by the employee to those providing the benefit . |
| 27 | Is not it reasonable that the House of Commons should be given the same information as is made available to the press in briefings ? |
| 28 | I ought to have explained in my letter — as is made clear in my book — that the case studies are those of pathologically disturbed men ( and some women ) ; people locked away in asylums or prisons , or who have paid for their vile perversions with their lives . |
| 29 | As is made clear below , bucket size may also affect the algorithm chosen . |
| 30 | The finest Cycladic products of the time are huge jars decorated with figure-scenes not painted but in relief , the best from Mykonos with panels on the body showing warriors putting women and children to the sword : a savage view of the sack of Troy , as is made clear by the superb rendering on the neck of the Wooden Horse ( fig.10 ) . |