Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , but tho , that one 's got ta be cut open !
2 You got all th the place has got ta be left tidy as er , if you 'd come there in the morning .
3 The maintenance of this repertoire is made more difficult , in that the majority of children in Roman Catholic schools seem to be taught contemporary hymns and other religious music by religious education teachers , rather than by the music staff .
4 Twenty in each university were to be taught modern history and languages and , if they reached the required standard , given suitable employment at home or abroad .
5 Such anger and defensiveness is commonplace and understandable because our society is accustomed to the stereotype pictures of alcoholism and drug or other addictions as disorders of weak-willed and immoral people who need to be taught firm lessons on how to behave themselves properly rather than as ill people who need to be helped to become well .
6 Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things .
7 These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 .
8 Although references to the presence of black people are available from the Roman period onward , especially in the early sixteenth century , the most famous of the early documented references is the arrival in 1555 of a group of five Africans , brought here by a merchant to be taught English so that they could return to Africa to act as interpreters for British traders .
9 Mentally handicapped children , especially those with severe handicaps , need to be taught social skills which may be naturally acquired in a comparatively short time by children of higher intelligence .
10 He opted to be taught medieval Welsh as a special subject .
11 No one doubted that some form of physical education should be part of the programme ; nor was there any dissent from the view that girls were to be taught domestic economy and similar subjects in addition to trade and academic courses ; and , thirdly , the terms ‘ vocational ’ and ‘ liberal ’ should be generously interpreted , rather than be seen as mutually exclusive .
12 Where the property is to be transferred subject to a mortgage , or where a new mortgage is to be created , it will be necessary to obtain consents to such transactions from any occupants of the property aged eighteen years or over ( following the case of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1981 ] AC 487 ) .
13 THE £80,427 refurbishment contract at Llandrindod Wells Museum due to be completed by the end of June , is expected to be extended due to delays with materials .
14 This standard is to be extended site-wide .
15 Hot seller in seaside toyshops this summer was the UFO Solar , a ‘ solar energy airship ’ balloon intended to be flown kite-like on a sixty-foot line .
16 If this were to be applied unmodified , since the displacement of the stylus varies inversely with frequency , the amplitude of the waveform cut in the disc at low frequencies would be very large .
17 It depends upon the weather , but after a week or so the concrete will have dried sufficiently to be treated prior to the introduction of fish and plants .
18 But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression .
19 Once won , the " bouse " , a mixture of rock spar and ore , had to be separated ready for smelting .
20 Being a marsh plant , it prefers to be grown emersed .
21 Parents know what their children are longing for and will give them what they want , even if every piggy bank in the house has to be broken open .
22 Nevertheless , the hazardous exposure is unlikely to be monitored external penetrating ionising radiation .
23 Bronze statuettes , often very fine , continue to be cast solid , and these are o–ten very bold and free in pose and structure .
24 One of the corpses was that of a local youth , the other that of an English girl , Gail Benson , who had come to the West Indies as the slavish lover of an American Negro , Hakim Jamal , ‘ God ’ to his friends , who was eventually to be shot dead in Boston .
25 Shorshan was the fourth Jewish settler to be shot dead by gunmen since the start of the Middle East peace talks in October 1991 .
26 In this sketch , Ken was supposed to be shot dead .
27 Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free .
28 A NUDE model had to be cut free by firemen yesterday after she got plastered — literally .
29 Rex was trapped by his legs and had to be cut free .
30 They had to be cut free .
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