Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he aware that , under British Shipbuilders , Laird 's was classified as a naval yard , and other yards not so classified were given intervention funding ? |
| 2 | Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America . |
| 3 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 4 | Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself . |
| 5 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 6 | Beyond these , who are almost automatically involved in the process , stand librarians who make efforts to ensure that early reading is given prominence in both public and school library collections , social workers who know the importance of gearing the mind and interest of parents to the needs and interests of their children , and health visitors who encourage new mothers to talk and play with their babies in ways which allow growth and development to be marked by natural milestones of awareness and understanding . |
| 7 | His preaching was scholarly and evangelical and he would probably have been elected Vice-President of the Conference but for the onset of ill-health . |
| 8 | Coleridge said in later life that the farmhouse to which he now retreated was called Brimstone ( no doubt a Coleridgean attempt at Broomstreet , which stood two miles west of the combe ) . |
| 9 | The daughter of an Oxfordshire couple murdered four years ago has been awarded compensation . |
| 10 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 11 | So I know you wo n't mind being made use of . |
| 12 | Goldie — I do n't like being called Xanthe . |
| 13 | I do n't like being called sir , and the way he said it made my flesh grue . |
| 14 | This procedure is seen by most family health services authorities as a last resort , after practices deemed to be prescribing inappropriately have been offered information and help to lower their prescribing rates and costs . |
| 15 | A health tribunal 's been hearing how residents at a home for the mentally handicapped were fed bread and water as a punishment . |
| 16 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 17 | But there is an action group of people opposed to it who say it should never have been given planning permission . |