Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do you think students are given too much time to respond to each stimulus or not enough ? |
| 8 | The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration . |
| 9 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 10 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |
| 11 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 12 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 13 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 14 | It is a pity but my father , Elfed , has been given very little credit in articles and books . |
| 15 | I think to be honest to you , the the have been given very little guidance , she does n't understand what 's supposed to happen |
| 16 | This information could be obtained from payroll files — accuracy could be assured as salaries are checked carefully each month by the individual employees as they receive their pay slips ! |
| 17 | A police officer told the coroner he 'd found youths on the site at least six times since the fence had been erected earlier this year . |
| 18 | Fig 38 Here the CE is marked and the hands are spaced equally either side of it . |
| 19 | Faster clock speeds are expected later this year . |
| 20 | Census data are used to calculate the scores , but these may be as much as 12 years out of date ( current data were collected in 1981 ; scores based on the 1991 census are expected later this year ) . |
| 21 | More bouts of fog are expected later this week . |
| 22 | Hearings are expected early this year , and if approved , are expected to be contested in the federal court . |
| 23 | Maybe the two are mixed up some way or another . |
| 24 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |
| 25 | I 've been sat there all evening nobody 's eaten it so I thought I might as well get on and eat it |
| 26 | On the other hand Labour 's commission will start to develop proposals only after a broad social and economic ‘ audit ’ of the population has been carried out this year . |
| 27 | If so , what was this creature , that had stood before him naked and singular , but concealed multitudes ? ; this power Chant had said possessed no friends ( it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERS , he 'd written ) and had been done as much harm in these dealings ( again , Chant 's words ) as Estabrook , to whom Chant had offered his contrition and his prayers ? |
| 28 | Oak Grove Road slopes down sharply from Croydon Road and houses had already been built nearly half way down . |
| 29 | It has not been revealed how much money the Bulgers have been paid for the interview , but the figure is thought to be in the five-figure bracket . |
| 30 | Her make-up had been applied thickly that morning but with great dexterity . |