Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 2 | The one enthroned by a building has been thought Priam in Troy , and if so there are two subjects : Gigantomachy ( Battle of Gods and Giants ) and Iliupersis ( Sack of Troy ) . |
| 3 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 4 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 5 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 6 | The computer has been taught fishing tricks : it jiggles the line to make the squid think the bait is alive . |
| 7 | A tenant who was wrongfully evicted from his bedsit has been awarded damages of ( 1900 ) nineteen hundred pounds . |
| 8 | JOHN DUTTON , 47 , a graduate of Lancashire College of Agriculture who started his journalistic career as a Press officer with the Milk Marketing Board has been appointed Editor of ‘ British Farmer ’ , the official journal of the NFU . |
| 9 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 10 | The paradigm of religion has been turned upside down . |
| 11 | Gordon Strachan OBE is simply unbelievable , and if HRH has been shown highlights of the game yet , I expect she 'll have popped the hereditary peerage in the post for him . |
| 12 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 13 | The National Bee Unit said the varroa parasite has been found north of Dartmoor . |
| 14 | A man accused of murder has been granted bail by magistrates . |
| 15 | On the one side , US aid has been made conditional on action against the drug trade . |
| 16 | The Guardian of Jan. 12 assessed that Gorbachev was " trying to buy time , in the hope that once the principle of secession has been established Lithuanians will think seriously about the political and economic implications " . |
| 17 | Under the policy of " re-insertion " introduced in the late 1980s some prisoners who renounced violence had been offered amnesties [ see pp. 36628 ; 37587 ] . |
| 18 | That was particularly noticeable in the continent of Africa where , already , the Gold Coast had been renamed Ghana ; and Northern Rhodesia became Zambia . |
| 19 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 20 | But Anthony Arnold , chairman of the Vale of Glamorgan Conservative Association , said the visit by the Central Office agent had been arranged weeks in advance . |
| 21 | Two thirds of those with baseline hypoxaemia had been born preterm and may have been suffering mild , clinically unapparent chronic lung disease . |
| 22 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 23 | It was 14 months later in January 1987 — shortly after Oliver North 's arms for hostages deal had been made public — that Waite was kidnapped while waiting in Dr Mroueh 's surgery for another meeting with the kidnappers . |
| 24 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 25 | Such a plea might be successful where the employee had been paid danger money to undertake precisely that risk . |
| 26 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |
| 27 | Four members of Wear Valley District Council 's leisure and marketing department have been awarded certificates . |
| 28 | The man who listened into an alleged conversation between the Princess of Wales and a male friend says only parts of his tape have been made public , and that far more damaging sections may soon be revealed . |
| 29 | Tolerance and openness have been made excuses for much which is in fact lubricious ( and usually commercial ) exploitation of them . |
| 30 | The Committee has been given powers to give directions and to perform other duties in relation to the televising of the House . |