Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am to show what I can do I must be given a chance to make my own complete performance . |
| 2 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 3 | Now I 've had two of those rest days prior to all this so I would be owed a fortnight 's holiday pay plus three rest days . |
| 4 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 5 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 6 | ‘ I like the exercise and , besides , I have two friends down the road in a Land Rover , ’ I said , implying that I would be given a lift . |
| 7 | You see , I would be teased a lot at school because I may not have been as quick as the others , but Bernard never joined in . |
| 8 | When I moved to Gloucestershire in 1961 I was told by a neighbour to lie low and remember that , although the progeny of an adjacent county ( Worcestershire ) , I would be held a foreigner by Gloucestershire folk for at least 25 years . |
| 9 | then this apparently gratuitous belief makes it the case again that I know that I will be given a lift . |
| 10 | Dr Anne Rodway , of the BMA 's medical ethics committee , said : ‘ Nobody should be offered a test without comprehensive counselling . ’ |
| 11 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
| 12 | Within his framework , pollution , which might be considered a cost imposed on society but not paid for by the company creating the pollution , results from a deficient system of property rights . |
| 13 | A special box was used , on to the lid of which could be flashed a variety of patterns whenever a bird approached it . |
| 14 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 15 | For specific item searches , Okapi presented the user with a form-filling type of screen on which could be entered a title and/or an author 's name . |
| 16 | They distinguish between the function of language as imparting meaning , ‘ making statements which can be assigned a set of truth conditions ’ ( ibid. ) , and its function of regulating and maintaining social or interpersonal relations between people . |
| 17 | From the beginning of his career Ashton frequently used the old stereotypes but created unique dances which can be called a translation of favourite comic play into the language of ballet . |
| 18 | Beside it is a small round table on which can be seen a photograph of my wife and me with our three elder children ; then there is an armchair also with a long seat and a dark-blue dog bed for our two spaniels beside another table with books and magazines . |
| 19 | They also " took up the case of Archibald McGreggor , Beadle , of whom an account of a fall from a horse while attending a funeral , a surmise had gone abroad that he was in a state of intoxication " but they found that " nothing could be made a ground of process against him . " |
| 20 | If you are arranging your mortgage via a mortgage broker and you do not choose an endowment-linked scheme , you may be charged a fee for his or her services . |
| 21 | If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee . |
| 22 | On these occasions you may be offered a job on the spot , so it is very important to have a good understanding of what you want and need from a job before you go . |
| 23 | Discrimination Sexual and racial discrimination can be highly distressing and can take a variety of forms — you may be refused a job , miss out on promotion or suffer harassment by your employer or colleagues . |
| 24 | She may be allocated a group of learners , and follow them throughout their training . |
| 25 | One has one or two friends who must be given a copy , and there it must end . |
| 26 | you should be given a chance to state your case |
| 27 | I think actually you should be allowed a house , You know for a . |
| 28 | They would not let her speak at table and made her wear a white canvas apron and a short gown ‘ so that she should be held a fool ’ ; but , said Margery with unholy self-satisfaction , ‘ she was held in more worship than they were , wherever they went ’ . |
| 29 | But super super person we 've got , unfortunately she might be offered a job at prison to take their sewing on and then she ca n't do ours . |
| 30 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |