Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He opted to be taught medieval Welsh as a special subject . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This standard is to be extended site-wide . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Once won , the " bouse " , a mixture of rock spar and ore , had to be separated ready for smelting . |
| 18 | Being a marsh plant , it prefers to be grown emersed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the hazardous exposure is unlikely to be monitored external penetrating ionising radiation . |
| 21 | Bronze statuettes , often very fine , continue to be cast solid , and these are o–ten very bold and free in pose and structure . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Shorshan was the fourth Jewish settler to be shot dead by gunmen since the start of the Middle East peace talks in October 1991 . |
| 24 | In this sketch , Ken was supposed to be shot dead . |
| 25 | Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free . |
| 26 | A NUDE model had to be cut free by firemen yesterday after she got plastered — literally . |
| 27 | Rex was trapped by his legs and had to be cut free . |
| 28 | They had to be cut free . |
| 29 | He had to be cut free . |
| 30 | The driver of that car was injured and had to be cut free … two people in a second car which hit the transporter 's tractor unit are also hurt |