Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women and disabled drivers who feel at risk of breaking down alone have been thrown a lifeline by a motoring organisation . |
| 2 | The inner ends of these arms fuse with each other and the median skeletal part thus formed is termed the body of the tentorium . |
| 3 | He had just missed being elected a member of this Academy by a single vote . |
| 4 | I understand you were an innocent dupe in Caroline 's little game , but I assure you , I will not tolerate being called a liar . ’ |
| 5 | Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier . |
| 6 | If Piggy had not told Ralph his nickname in the beginning he would not have been made a ridicule of before the vote . |
| 7 | Application should normally be made to the appropriate education authority for grant aid before 1 June of the year in which the student wishes to enter a course , even though at that time the student may not have been offered a place . |
| 8 | And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly . |
| 9 | This book , which might as easily have been entitled The Triumph of Realism , might equally have been subtitled The Return of the Native . |
| 10 | His relief at not having been made a fool of was matched by his curiosity to find out who the devil he was , this man Iying chest down on the wet flagstones , face turned to one side as though asleep . |
| 11 | You were grateful not to have been born a boy , for that meant the probability of dying in war . |
| 12 | Once Izzat is tainted a woman can do very little about it . |
| 13 | The experiment has been extended by trying to teach rats , at various intervals after teaching them to run to avoid a shock , to stay dead still to avoid being given a shock . |
| 14 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 15 | A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort . |
| 16 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 17 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 18 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 19 | Over the last few months , those who have paid up have been given the VIP treatment at JaguarSport 's purpose-built factory at Bloxham , near Banbury , where the first production XJ220s are now under construction . |
| 20 | A hospital in the Bradford district had renovated some ward space for geriatric patients who subsequently ended up elsewhere , the purchasers presumably having been made an offer they could n't refuse . |
| 21 | They do n't really like being called a tourist in many places . |
| 22 | Only then , from that , does he infer that there really is honey ; and this is what really distinguishes being told the truth from finding it out in other ways . |
| 23 | On the back seat … a fourteen-year-old boy from Milton Keynes , who just the day before had been given a supervision order after being convicted for burglary , armed robbery and car theft . |
| 24 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 25 | One thing we do n't do is put the dog on the couch . |
| 26 | Well one thing he did n't do was put a woman in the cabinet , and , as I have said , that 's something we 've got an eye on , obviously . |
| 27 | Theresa , who does n't mind being called a whore but starts screaming if anyone calls her retarded , is the kind of character who seems to promise a fate worse than rape , but the greatest violence reside in Al , who tries to calm himself with images of lambs , only to have them open their mouths to show him teeth and worms . |
| 28 | The good dealer was something of a social worker as well as a salesman , developing a very intensive relationship with clients who did n't mind being churned every day . |
| 29 | I do n't like being made a fool of ! ’ |
| 30 | He would n't like being made a fool of , even it was largely his own fault for refusing to believe her when she told him about Dana . |