Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies .
2 Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market .
3 If you are given this task it is best to write the minutes up the same day or as soon as possible after the meeting while the discussion is still fresh in your mind .
4 ‘ The old inter-club rivalries and jealousies have undoubtedly been banished this season and it will be good for the tournament and for English rugby if we can win it , ’ said coach Keith Richardson .
5 Chances were that the shooting had n't even been heard this side of the block .
6 They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season .
7 Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far .
8 However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ?
9 The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition .
10 The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition .
11 In about three years ' time all GM 's new cars will have been developed this way .
12 ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that .
13 Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown .
14 You have probably been given this brochure by your local ABTA Travel Agent .
15 A record of the companies who have been given this dispensation should be held in order that this may be checked by the auditors .
16 But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell .
17 At present no other organisations have been given this status .
18 In March 1944 the U.852 was on patrol off the west coast of Africa : she was the fifth U-boat to have been given this area of patrol , the previous four , commanded by aces such as Wuppisch and Schultz , having all been sunk by aircraft .
19 Another free kick has been given this time against big Mike Whitlow Lively start to the game and a lively start for the referee .
20 Thank you , yes , I think in a course of er , er explanation that 's been given this morning , there was a reference to H G V eight diversion , now I 'm concerned that if in fact that means that er H G Vs are increasingly using the route through Culford there are two very severe right angle bends on that road and I should erm like to see the police take some action to persuade H G V to ban that route er I mean can we do a ban on the early section of it with in particular to like angle bends are ?
21 Lord Denning said that it could be implied that the Minister had been given this power to enable him to revoke licences obtained illegally .
22 The very words ‘ modern art ’ still carry by themselves a charge strong enough to disturb , dishearten , or even repel , some before they 've read a line or listened to a note of whatever work has been given this label .
23 Lay readers or elders who have traditionally been given this job may well not be gifted to lead the congregation in the way described above .
24 She has also been painted this year by Howard Morgan , for Unilever .
25 A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose .
26 Until such endorsement has been received this party shall not introduce its prospective candidate to the public .
27 Of 720,000 sq ftof office space that has been completed this year , 350,000 sq ft has been let .
28 It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters .
29 The author would welcome responses from teams developing courses in EP , particularly in North America , with a view to publishing a much more elaborate framework ( akin to that available for Computer Science ) , including the items which have been omitted this time .
30 Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making .
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