Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission will probably also recommend that the defence be given improved access to forensic facilities . |
| 2 | George Dunlop , of Linfield , preferred to Allen McKnight , held out for 42 minutes , but when Fort Dunlop came under siege , the defences were found wanting , and the only Irish-based player on the field was at fault for the important first goal . |
| 3 | The majority are painted yellow , the colour of the bottle tops on Superior , a light Mexican beer famous for its slogan ‘ la rubia que todos quieren ’ ‘ the blonde which everybody loves/wants ’ , reducing Mariana to that Latin American cliché , the accessible , desirable , blonde foreign female . |
| 4 | But since the majority sets the standards , the differences of the majority are considered normal , those of the minority odd . |
| 5 | Members manning the stand were kept busy answering many questions from both adults and children . |
| 6 | HWIM attempts to find just the n highest scoring ‘ seed ’ words anywhere in the utterance , the remainder being predicted top-down by the syntactic/semantic component using the seed words as starting points . |
| 7 | His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement . |
| 8 | The ship left there shortly after midnight but it was six and a half hours before the seamen were discovered missing . |
| 9 | The paragraph reads like a prelude to a claim that the solicitors be made responsible for the loss . |
| 10 | Even in cases where the trial was considered deficient , the prisoner would be allowed to appeal to federal court only once , unless the petition involved issues of innocence or guilt . |
| 11 | The information-processing is made possible by the universe 's collapse . |
| 12 | Where the admission is sent direct to the plaintiff and the offer is accepted , the plaintiff is not required to file the admission ( or a copy ) with the request for judgment . |
| 13 | There was some doubt as to whether the cleaner was an independent contractor , but the occupiers were held liable as they had failed to take reasonable steps to check that the work had been reasonably done : " The craft of the charwoman may have its mysteries but there is no esoteric quality in the nature of the work which the cleaning of a snow covered step demands . " |
| 14 | In representational behaviour , on the other hand , all the meanings are made explicit . |
| 15 | The smell of rotten oranges from the alley was strong as the swing-doors were pushed open . |
| 16 | The bogies were assembled adjacent to the underframes and in a somewhat similar manner , the final operation being carried out near to , and on the same road as , the underframe lowering operation . |
| 17 | Since a sentence was the basis for execution , and the sentence was pronounced inter partes , execution too must have been similarly limited . |
| 18 | The sentence was left unfinished . |
| 19 | Contextually , the notional component of the verb is assigned thematic status if it has already been mentioned . |
| 20 | The technique was made possible by the use of the scanning tunnelling microscope which allows researchers to look at individual atoms on a surface . |
| 21 | The unseemly haste is dictated not merely by the Government 's electoral timetable , but by the fear that if the measure is given proper time for debate there will also be time for the real , but as yet nascent , concerns of Tory Back Benchers and their constituents to grow and mature . |
| 22 | The heart 's grown brutal from the fare . ’ |
| 23 | The afternoon was spent practising national negotiation . |
| 24 | I even considered swooning so as to get out of the room when suddenly a secret door just behind the throne was thrown open and the most incredible sight emerged : a man , black as night , well over two yards high . |
| 25 | In two schools , the toilets were kept locked for most of the day . |
| 26 | The World Bank granted Hungary a loan of $66,000,000 in June to streamline its financial system ( the money was made available to the four largest banks ) . |
| 27 | 52 shows that , in circumstances similar to those of the Wilts United Dairies case , recovery could be , and indeed there was , founded upon compulsion and not upon the simple fact that the money was paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand : see [ 1925 ] 1 K.B . |
| 28 | And indeed , as long as their prerogatives in the priesthood and the Temple were left intact , the Sadducees were prepared to make such an accommodation . |
| 29 | As a result , very few software companies developed Windows spreadsheets and the field was left clear for Microsoft 's Excel . |
| 30 | In 1706 , after his victory at Turin , Prince Eugene had to interfere in person to prevent a general massacre of the French wounded by the imperial forces ; and after the battle of Zorndorf in 1758 many of the wounded Russians left on the field were buried alive by Prussian soldiers and local peasants . |