Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The white Straker family had long disappeared , their genes and blood melded into the vigorous bodies of their freed slaves , and only the Straker name lived on to be given new dignity by Bonefish and his family . |
| 32 | As in Pearl , a stock phrase or cliché can at any moment be given new point . |
| 33 | Almond suggests a number of ways in which the ancient idea that the two sexes have — or should have — different moral outlooks can be given new life in the context of modern feminism . |
| 34 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 35 | A senator who cultivates his mayors will be given useful things to do and will be re-elected . |
| 36 | But I 'd much rather be given useful relevant information like where I am . ’ |
| 37 | Finally we would like to reassure members of the sporting public that injuries treated in NHS hospitals will be given effective treatments just as footballers received in hospital departments Jacqui Moore MCSP , Hiliary Adams MCSP , A Wallace , MCSP BSc Hon. |
| 38 | It also suggests the possibility that demonstrators fall foul of the law in the magistrates ' court in ways which may never afterwards be given thoughtful re-examination at a more senior judicial level . |
| 39 | He therefore proposed that they should be given increased representation in Legislative Councils and that they should be admitted to the administrative services . |
| 40 | The defendant who had not " examined " , in the sense of personally inspected , the offending items might nonetheless be given reasonable cause to suspect obscenity by clandestine or unorthodox behaviour on the part of his supplier . |
| 41 | These possibilities exist because some of the meanings which human beings find in experience depend on symbols and can only be given symbolic expression . |
| 42 | These commands are used to define geometric entities , that is points , lines and surfaces which may be given symbolic names . |
| 43 | And he felt , obscurely , that the terrible accident needed to be given coherent thought . |
| 44 | Outside England , apparently , there were no areas suitable to be given metropolitan district status . |
| 45 | ‘ Since they will be given preferential treatment this time around , it 's likely many of them will want to put more into it . |
| 46 | ‘ Since they will be given preferential treatment this time around it is likely many of them will want to put more money into it . ’ |
| 47 | They also discussed a proposal by Jacques Delors , the President of the EC Commission , that East Germany should be given preferential status as a potential EC member . |
| 48 | In addition , a bureaucratic agency may be given preferential access to some inputs , such as land , through planning legislation , for example . |
| 49 | The request for a deployment under this article ended weeks of political wrangling , during which the army had urged that it should be given wide martial law powers to act in Sind under Article 245 of the Constitution . |
| 50 | MAGISTRATES are to be given wide powers to fine criminals according to what they believe they can afford . |
| 51 | Internationalism required that two thoroughly nationalistic and non-socialist movements be given complete support . |
| 52 | It suggested that some polytechnics and colleges should be given complete autonomy by the Secretary of State to validate their own courses ; others should be allowed more limited autonomy , in specific areas ; while in yet others external validation should remain . |
| 53 | Householders should be given separate receptacles , for their wastes of food , plastics , paper and tins and bottles . |
| 54 | In addition , the linguistic needs of monolingual pupils should be given separate consideration . |
| 55 | It is advisable for children to be given inactivated polio vaccine as the live vaccine contains polio virus which may be shed for several months after being taken . |
| 56 | It is advisable for children to be given inactivated polio vaccine as the live vaccine contains the polio virus which may be shed for several months after being taken . |
| 57 | The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes which other Commonwealth citizens might exploit . |
| 58 | The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes other Commonwealth citizens might exploit . |
| 59 | They will also be given automatic entry to the Silk Cut Challenge Cup and the Regal Trophy competitions . |
| 60 | In education , we have seen campaigns to allow girls to take crafts in school and to be given non-stereotyped jobs on the youth-training schemes . |