Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems unlikely that the mare basins could each have been filled in one outpouring . |
| 2 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 3 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 4 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 5 | All these descriptions are given richly sensuous images . |
| 6 | ( Medical students are given just 8 weeks for a unit on obstetrics and gynaecology , for example . ) |
| 7 | Ways of teaching RE to young children have received too little attention , and teachers are given woefully little training — consequently the one mentioned in the article is probably left to teach as she was once taught . |
| 8 | Similar arguments might be advanced with respect to the measures of economic deprivation , which are presented as items five and six in table 9.7 and are given extremely low weight in the assessment of GRE , compared with the multiple use of housing indicators and of measures of ethnic origin . |
| 9 | If there is one lesson to emerge from consideration of the changing balance of dependence and independence in old age , it is the flexibility and adaptability for which old people are given so little credit . |
| 10 | If more than two sets of x , y coordinates are given then each pair in the sequence will be joined by a straight line . |
| 11 | Sometimes the auditors are given more specific instructions about how they are to conduct the valuation . |
| 12 | After Peniel , when for a night Jacob also , so unheroic hitherto , played a hero 's part , we are given more subtle comedy and another hero brought down to earth . |
| 13 | Indeed , in many industries there would be little point in raising the skill level unless workers are given more advanced capital equipment on which to work . |
| 14 | For low risk junctions , however , a quite different effect emerges , high risk exemplars are given significantly fewer descriptions than both medium and low risk exemplars , p<0.05 . |
| 15 | This interaction in Figure 7.1 is particularly interesting , the multiple comparisons show that for high risk junctions both high and medium risk exemplars are given significantly more descriptions than low risk exemplars , p<0.01 . |
| 16 | The most risky situations , high risk exemplars of high risk junctions are given significantly more descriptions that are clearly not related to risk than any other type of situation . |
| 17 | If there is no preparedness to see extensive nationalization of the worst offending corporations and if there is no political or national will to place public officials on the boards of directors to guarantee that ‘ our ’ interests are given as much consideration as those of the corporation , then clearly the will to control corporations has atrophied in the withering light of pragmatism . |
| 18 | All are given relatively straight interpretations , and remain resolutely unexciting and , indeed , uninteresting . |
| 19 | Furthermore , there is no shocked outcry from the mass media if such criminals are given relatively minor sentences . |
| 20 | Conservationists expect the government to rely on the existing network of 5,800 sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) , which are given only limited protection under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 21 | First , textual effects are given only secondary importance : " style , manner , vocabulary and imagery may be borrowed , but personality is inalienable " . |
| 22 | If this is the argument it neglects the fact that statutory bodies are given very specific powers . |
| 23 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 24 | Do you think students are given too much time to respond to each stimulus or not enough ? |
| 25 | These are given vibrantly live performances by Thomas Zehetmair and Malcolm Frager , who play an 1805 Broadwood fortepiano . |
| 26 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 27 | The spotted mare came from Billy Smart 's and jumps a flaming hoop suspended at five feet , the chestnut in the horsebox is an ex-hunter who once belonged to the Duke of Beaufort , this one I 'm holding has been placed twice round Badminton , and Hoomey 's — ’ |
| 28 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 29 | The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration . |
| 30 | Medau will be organising the London regional day for interested teachers from all disciplines , which will be held at the Laban Centre on Sunday 1st March — places are limited so early application is advised ( details and application forms enclosed ) . |