Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ’ height ’ which it tries to minimize is called the machine 's energy , and is defined to be |
| 2 | Viewers wishing to help were given the address of AI at the end of the programme : over 1,500 letters were subsequently received at the AI office . |
| 3 | All you have to do is run the MS-DOS executive and carry on as normal . |
| 4 | All you have to do is put the chicken carcass in and leave it |
| 5 | Mm , we 'll rough it for a while , because I know the downers , the only thing that Mike wants to do is put the fence and the gate up the side |
| 6 | I seem to have been given the freedom |
| 7 | And I am certain he would love to have been given the chance to impress the NIBA selectors as they prepare to pick the side for next month 's senior championship in Dublin . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel deeply honoured to have been given the opportunity of continuing the work I 've started in the last 16 months , ’ he said . |
| 9 | All told , I regard myself as incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity of being Chairman of the National Gallery , and I could n't have enjoyed it more . |
| 10 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 11 | Nicole looked quite thrilled to have been asked the question , and she haltingly explained that her son was at a party and that they would be collecting him later that morning . |
| 12 | We are delighted to have been awarded the contract . ’ |
| 13 | It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House . |
| 14 | The temperature at which water droplets begin to condense is called the dew-point — literally , the temperature below which dew will form . |