Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In a medical textbook , the choice between clavicle and collar-bone can justly be called a matter of stylistic variation . |
| 3 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 7 | My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan . |
| 8 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 9 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A SENIOR Anglican clergyman who declared that sex outside marriage should not necessarily be considered a sin has come under fire . |
| 14 | Government sources said later that the Commons would shortly be given a chance to debate the provisions in the act which have to be renewed annually . |
| 15 | Some time during the next decade ‘ affordable ’ high-definition television ( HDTV ) sets will reach the mass market , in the meantime the European consumer will shortly be offered a variety of ‘ compromise ’ wide-screen TVs , falling somewhere between true HDTV and conventional models . |
| 16 | Hoping that , in the changed climate of opinion in England , he would soon be granted a pardon , Kinloch returned secretly to London , where for some time he remained under cover until early in 1823 he returned clandestinely to Scotland . |
| 17 | CHINESE takeaway restaurants will soon be given a star rating to encourage higher standards . |
| 18 | The skull of a Celtic princess which was dug up more than a hundred years ago could soon be given a face . |
| 19 | This is a choice ( whether conscious or unconscious is a different matter ) , but could scarcely be called a style . |
| 20 | History , which can now no longer be considered a concept as such , is therefore made up of the incommensurable relation between these two disjunctive set-ups . |
| 21 | The Irish management team of manager Noel Murphy , captain Phil Danaher and coach Ciaran Fitzgerald will slip into New Zealand hoping the All Blacks will be so concerned with their tilts at the World XV , the Australians in the Bledisloe Cup and the South Africans on their August tour that they might just be caught a bit unawares when Ireland arrive . |
| 22 | ‘ Obviously they will not just be handed a job which is why a strategy is already mapped out for training and so on . ’ |
| 23 | You will generally be awarded a sum in respect of your lost industrial rights , ie because you have to requalify for the right not to be unfairly dismissed . |
| 24 | Boots which have been factory-treated and given a waterproof finish should not normally be given a wax treatment when new , but should be treated with ordinary shoe polish . |
| 25 | All pension scheme members should normally be given a booklet describing how the scheme works , what benefits it provides , the names of the trustees and other information including the address of the Pensions Ombudsman . |
| 26 | [ 3 ] Without that careful study , scratching would not normally be considered a sign associated with arthritis . |
| 27 | Perhaps sometime I 'll be able to devise a way round my official non-existence and apply for a gun myself , though even then , all things considered , I might not be granted a licence . |
| 28 | On proximal joints the dorsal arm spines from one side of the arm form a continuous series with those from the other , but this can not be called a fan in the sense used in other genera of the Ophiacanthidae . |
| 29 | This argument can be criticized on the grounds that a state bureaucracy can not be called a class . |
| 30 | Similarly , an excess of payments over receipts can not be called a loss because apart from anything else the payments might include the acquisition of assets . |