Example sentences of "[adj] to [be] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester has strong support , including that of Prime Minister John Major , but Sydney , Australia , remains favourite to be given the 2000 Games . |
| 2 | Manchester has strong support , including that of Prime Minister John Major , but Sydney , Australia , remains favourite to be given the 2000 Games . |
| 3 | Poor Nannerl , at 18 now too old to be considered a child prodigy , was left at home with her mother : her concert-giving days were over . |
| 4 | It was interesting to be given an insight earlier this evening into the Minister 's attitude to his own brief . |
| 5 | Meredith was relieved to be spared the embarrassment of unavoidable eavesdropping . |
| 6 | Payne , who three-putted the seventeenth was fortunate to be given a second chance by Gillner , who looked set to gain his first senior win when he required two par 4s at the seventeenth and eighteenth . |
| 7 | Clubs also look set to be given the option of having players ' names on the back of their shirts . |
| 8 | Darlington Arts Centre THIS concert looks set to be come an annual event in Darlington 's musical calendar . |
| 9 | He was also delighted to be given a bottle of whisky from his colleagues at Runcorn . |
| 10 | When Captain Pugwash retires from active piracy he is amazed and delighted to be offered a Huge Reward for what seems to be a simple task . |
| 11 | If , therefore , prisoners are in future to be told the judicial recommendation as to the tariff period , many judges may think it appropriate to announce their own recommendations publicly in court when passing sentence . |
| 12 | Ashenden , buttonholed as he was once again in the coffee-lounge by the diminutive dynamo from Sacramento , appeared only too glad to be given the opportunity of escaping , albeit to an interview with Chief Inspector Morse . |
| 13 | When one gets right down to it , I doubt very much whether you 're fit to be called a bad lot . ’ |
| 14 | XIa ) shows any significant similarity to the western designs ( chequered decoration — a feature common to mosaics of both regions — is insufficiently diagnostic to be considered a major index of affinity ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Have you ever taken part in a fire drill , ’ I ask a ticket collector at a station on the Jubilee Line ( which was supposed to be called the Fleet Line until the GLC 's Horace Cutler decided to change it in deference to the Queen at a cost of £50,000 ) . |
| 16 | Oh yes , at that particular time , I will tell you that once again er , that was er I was supposed to go for an interview and this was er for the er declaration of intent of , wh which was er supposed to er supposed to be given every year to both the Lothian Regional Council and the District . |
| 17 | The event was supposed to be staged a couple of weeks back , but was postponed because Lewis was said to be unwell and still in America . |
| 18 | You 'd do we by the time you get in nine o'clock you 're supposed to be re half past nine you 're supposed to be finished the first one . |
| 19 | I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft . |
| 20 | I was lucky to be offered a job with the organisation . |
| 21 | He was lucky to be spared a long fuddled decline into the garbage heap . |
| 22 | and all this money that he 's got , ca n't pay a man a living wage , so but it 's a decent as I say , he 's lucky to be got a job these days . |
| 23 | I found it gratifying to be offered a job without searching for one . |
| 24 | The meeting was privileged to be given an historical perspective , as well as a view of biological applications of the latest techniques , by George Porter . |
| 25 | I went down to Monte Carlo to set up a tournament and was privileged to be granted a meeting with the sports-mad Prince at the Palace . |
| 26 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 27 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 28 | Thus , if convicted , women are far less likely to be given a custodial sentence . |
| 29 | Michael Hughes , who met up with the rest of the party here in Frankfurt last night , is likely to be given a more forward role supporting Dowie . |
| 30 | Atwater , who was thought likely to be given a ceremonial party post , was widely considered to be one of the key architects of Bush 's 1988 presidential election victory , but was suffering from an inoperable brain tumour . |