Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her daughter , Lucy Packer ( 1970 ) besides mothering three sons has been appointed Head of Personnel at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 2 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 3 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |
| 4 | Its social bases include : ( i ) the crisis , for many artists , of the transition from patronage to the market ; ( ii ) the crisis , in certain arts , of the transition from handwork to machine production ( see Chapter 4 , below ) ; ( iii ) crises within both patronage and the market , in a period of intense and general social conflict ; ( iv ) the attachment of certain groups to a pre-capitalist and/or pre-democratic social order , in which some arts had been accorded privilege within a general privilege ; ( v ) the attachment of other groups to the democratization of the social order , as part of the process of general liberation and human enrichment to which the arts , if they were allowed , could contribute : ( vi ) a more general opposition , often overlapping and even seeming to unite these diverse political views , to the practices and values of a ‘ commercial ’ and ‘ mechanical ’ civilization , from which the practice and values of the arts could be distinguished . |
| 5 | My eyes had been glared dark . |
| 6 | Jews had been denied citizen 's rights of any kind . |
| 7 | Since 1982 , 92 foreigners had been held hostage in Lebanon and at least 10 had died in captivity . |
| 8 | Only when these key steps have been taken will government and individuals alike be able to plan for the long term , instead of focusing on the short term and the next election . |
| 9 | Throughout the country access funds have been stretched way beyond the limit . |
| 10 | Wm Low Supermarkets has been granted planning permission for a store and car park on the Ladbrokes Retail Park site in the town 's Grahams Road . |
| 11 | In two test cases involving boys under the age of five , application to be housed had been made in the name of child after the parents had been refused accommodation . |
| 12 | According to casualty figures for the conflict in 1991 issued by Nagorny Karabakh 270 Armenians , 216 Azerbaijanis and 15 servicemen of various nationalities had died ; 400 Armenians , 180 Azerbaijanis and 34 servicemen had been wounded ; and 599 Armenians had been taken hostage , of whom 226 had not yet returned . |
| 13 | There were other reports that judges had been refused permission to appear on television in the early 1980s . |
| 14 | Kyrenia surrendered because the commander Sor de Naves had been promised wealth , estates , the office of Constable and the hand , when she is out of napkins , of Charlotte , the elder daughter of Zacco . |
| 15 | Meantime , all 5 defendants have been granted bail until April 27 . |
| 16 | Studies in which rats have been fed ethanol have suggested that there is reduced ability of hepatocytes to bind to laminin , type I collagen , and fibronectin ; a possible explanation for which is that there is reduced expression or activation of specific receptors for these matrix components . |
| 17 | The Church Commissioners have been granted outline planning permission for residential development on a plot of land at the corner of the main road and Colliery Road at Auton Stile , Bearpark . |
| 18 | with objectified consciousness , the transcendental or abstract elements have been made concrete , and the ultimate reality is a perceptible reality . |
| 19 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 20 | When a young worker offered one group the fact that in Germany workers had been given training to help people see themselves as not being ‘ simply cogs in a wheel ’ , it was suggested that this could not be done in Britain . |
| 21 | A further 450 Palestinians had been taken prisoner . |
| 22 | In a reference to continuing reports that more Soviet weapons had been moved east of the Ural mountains and thus out of the treaty area , the UK Defence Secretary Tom King raised doubts about whether the treaty process was going forward with " the degree of control and accuracy that was intended " . |
| 23 | Two councillors who have served Hartlepool for a total of 26 years have been nominated Mayor and Deputy Mayor for the municipal year beginning on May 19 . |
| 24 | Children with HIV infection or the children of people with HIV or AIDS have been refused admission at some schools . |
| 25 | Red Cross officials have been refused entry to the two camps . |
| 26 | From the time Myles had been made caretaker , Father Poole had been a regular visitor every Sunday evening . |
| 27 | Two families had been taken hostage to force the managers of a bank and supermarket to hand over £96,000 . |
| 28 | All those things had been said time and again erm by various thinkers in the eighteenth century and before and after . |
| 29 | In fact this is the whole point of introducing D. By assigning a relative permittivity to a dielectric material all these problems have been taken care of . |
| 30 | This process is now being reversed and increasing numbers of new family farmers have been granted land from the collective and state farms . |