Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tokens are listed under the phonetic variant which they realize , and additionally are assigned a label which describes the following environment ; these labels are explained as follows : |
| 2 | Sagarmatha National Park was born in 1976 and has since been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO . |
| 3 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 4 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 6 | The planet had only been recontacted a century earlier . |
| 7 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 8 | He had only been commissioned a week . |
| 9 | While classics , for example , are considered essentially upper- or upper-middle-class disciplines , engineering ( in this country at any rate ) has long been considered a subject suitable for aspirant working-class men . |
| 10 | The right to demonstrate against unpopular causes has long been considered a bulwark of liberty in any civilised society , enabling groups within that society to attempt to influence public opinion , to express their solidarity , to pressurise government and publicise their cause . |
| 11 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 12 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 13 | In a medical textbook , the choice between clavicle and collar-bone can justly be called a matter of stylistic variation . |
| 14 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 15 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 16 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 17 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 18 | My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan . |
| 19 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 20 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 21 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 22 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |
| 23 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |
| 24 | A SENIOR Anglican clergyman who declared that sex outside marriage should not necessarily be considered a sin has come under fire . |
| 25 | Cnut is being crowned and Emma is apparently being given a veil by angels pointing to Christ , who is flanked by the patron saints of New Minster , the Virgin Mary and Peter . |
| 26 | ‘ I guess not , ’ the gardener answered , awkward at suddenly being made a spokesman for his generation . |
| 27 | But a man who claimed that his wife was n't being affectionate enough was refused a divorce — she was n't being unreasonable , that 's just the kind of woman she was . |
| 28 | If his marriage was in trouble it was because he and Diana had not been given a chance . |
| 29 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 30 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |