Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If muggers can be deterred by punitive sentencing , then some of them must be made an example of . |
| 2 | I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions . |
| 3 | If I may be allowed a topical rugby metaphor , we had , so to speak lined up the ball for a conversion . |
| 4 | If I am to show what I can do I must be given a chance to make my own complete performance . |
| 5 | In the interest of fairness and the protection of fellow reviewers , I must be allowed the right of reply to Martin Collins ' extraordinary outburst ( Mail , Sept ) in response to my review of his book Classic Walks in the Peak District . |
| 6 | The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week . |
| 7 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 8 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 9 | Paragraph three , the action plan , er well it will guide itself evidence this , the statements made under the action plan , from section three of the report will guide our activities over the next three years and of course paragraph four performance the critical success factors , by the seven criteria we will be judged in the highway service and each one is a challenge in its own right and I do hope to receive in order to carry out these er , these er promises in fact , that erm , I 'd be given the relevant level of financial staff and resources |
| 10 | Now I 've had two of those rest days prior to all this so I would be owed a fortnight 's holiday pay plus three rest days . |
| 11 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 12 | ‘ I like the exercise and , besides , I have two friends down the road in a Land Rover , ’ I said , implying that I would be given a lift . |
| 13 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 14 | I was told that I would be given the money when I got to Singapore . |
| 15 | I even began to enjoy my weekly visits to Whitechapel , where I would be given the chance to show off my new-found skills . |
| 16 | You see , I would be teased a lot at school because I may not have been as quick as the others , but Bernard never joined in . |
| 17 | It was unlikely that I would be offered a safe seat , but I might , with luck , be given a chance in a marginal . |
| 18 | When I moved to Gloucestershire in 1961 I was told by a neighbour to lie low and remember that , although the progeny of an adjacent county ( Worcestershire ) , I would be held a foreigner by Gloucestershire folk for at least 25 years . |
| 19 | To deduce the familiar properties of ordering amongst the integers we make : Definition 1.2.4 The ( unique ) subset N of Z described in axioms P and I will be called the set of positive integers ; the subset -N the set of negative integers . |
| 20 | then this apparently gratuitous belief makes it the case again that I know that I will be given a lift . |
| 21 | I will be spared the perils of a close encounter with the current Limnititzker sage . |
| 22 | I can be contacted every day this week at Whitelion on 01 837 4836 ( or fax 01 833 0013 ) . |
| 23 | Fylingdales parish returned only ten taxpayers even though its biggest settlement was the lively village of Robin Hood 's Bay , where Leland observed twenty fishing boats , each of which may be reckoned the livelihood of one family at the very least . |
| 24 | Such , too , was the theme that intensified in their fiction towards middle age , which may be called the agony of a lost Eden . |
| 25 | The basic duty provides us with the fundamental rule of conduct which may be called the rule of law ; viz. , that we must not only not injure , but must also work to promote , social solidarity . |
| 26 | There is a catastrophic ‘ implosion ’ , which may be called the opposite of an explosion , followed by a shock-wave which literally blows the star apart in what is called a supernova outburst . |
| 27 | Thus an envelope bounding these wells showing minimum or no uplift on the diagram defines a zone of ± 400 ft ( 120 m ) which may be termed the standard maturity-depth gradient for the Southern North Sea ; all the data points which define the zone were derived from Westphalian age strata . |
| 28 | The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one . |
| 29 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 30 | Vincent would have applauded the religious tenor of Lawrence 's Foreword to Sons and Lovers , and especially this : ‘ So there is the Father — which should be called the Mother … ’ |