Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior cataloguer who has brought in significant new business through proven negotiating skills may be offered a Deputy Directorship at £20–25,000 . |
| 2 | Tobacco is a drug and addicts should be given a chance to ease off gradually . |
| 3 | And police have suggested that soccer fans should be charged a hooligan levy when buying their match tickets , the money would go towards the cost of security at soccer grounds . |
| 4 | The clever ones soon discovered that while banknotes could be seized a bank balance could not . |
| 5 | Local Management of Schools will be judged a success if it has been up and running reasonably well since 1 April 1990 . |
| 6 | Ticket-holders for the performances will be given a refund . |
| 7 | ‘ The shock waves will be felt a lot further than the streets of Tyneside . ’ |
| 8 | All power-ups can be upgraded a maximum of five times , and you get more money to spend after each race depending on your finishing position . |
| 9 | Any suspense is negligible , since the baddies can be spotted a mile off : one wears a Mephistophelean beard , the other an insane grin . |
| 10 | They belong to a point ( if three-and-a-half books can be called a point , for it lasts from half-way through Exodus to the end of Deuteronomy ) of great tension in the narrative . |
| 11 | In particular , emotional attachments may be given a justification which psychologically does not explain why the individual holds the attachments . |
| 12 | In this way bank bills may be re-discounted a number of times before maturity . |
| 13 | I find it extraordinary ( sour grapes ? ) that the law adjustments made for reasons of safety in the later rounds should be considered a matter for enquiry by some absentees from the event . |
| 14 | Since s. 2(2) OLA 1957 requires the occupier to take such care as is reasonable to see that visitors will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which they are invited or permitted by the occupier to be there , lawful visitors will be owed a duty only in so far as they remain within the scope of their invitation or permission to be on the premises . |
| 15 | But some residents fear their lives will be made a misery . |
| 16 | In fact , such sites can be made a feature in the garden , and it could be worth building a wall on purpose , which would form a barrier to cold wind and contain warmth on its sunny side . |
| 17 | I sound one warning note about individual choice — it works in towns where parents can be given a choice of schools , up to the physical capacity of a school , but in rural areas that choice may be only theoretical . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
| 19 | If sponsorship is finalised , there will be a festival of movement at Brighton Conference Centre on Saturday 14th September — early evening performance , and workshops throughout the day — ticket buyers will be given a voucher for a free local follow-up class ( cost to be redeemed from Festival funds ) . |
| 20 | Participants will be given a bone scan and the condition of their spine will be checked . |
| 21 | A TYNESIDE man who has worked for the Ministry of Defence for nearly 30 years will be awarded a medal on Thursday . |
| 22 | Proposals should have to be advertised locally , the manifesto says , and customers should be given a right of audience before the licensing authorities to oppose unwelcome changes . |
| 23 | For example : Enigma Variations could be called a character ballet because it describes ‘ the persons empictured within' by Elgar himself . |
| 24 | To licence software customers will be issued a set of right-to-use electronic keys which unlock the operating system for a specified number of users , ICL says . |
| 25 | The Chart-based model used in the following experiments can be considered a hybrid between the blackboard and the hierarchical models . |
| 26 | We think that pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients should be considered a criterion for AIDS only if immunodepression is shown by a negative tuberculin skin test and/or low CD4/CD8 ratio . |
| 27 | But being a liberal-democracy also implies that the minorities must be given a chance to become a majority ; and that means , therefore , that they must be given a chance status and a means to convert the majority . |
| 28 | It is important that the profligate use of resources is avoided ; otherwise some patients will be denied a benefit because of the misdirection of limited resources . |
| 29 | Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market . |
| 30 | By buying a £1 ticket , racegoers will be given a number which will correspond to a horse running in a race and , if it wins , they are guaranteed a return of 4-1 whether the horse is odds-on or an outsider . |