Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 2 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 3 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 4 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 5 | The computer has been taught fishing tricks : it jiggles the line to make the squid think the bait is alive . |
| 6 | JOHN DUTTON , 47 , a graduate of Lancashire College of Agriculture who started his journalistic career as a Press officer with the Milk Marketing Board has been appointed Editor of ‘ British Farmer ’ , the official journal of the NFU . |
| 7 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 8 | The paradigm of religion has been turned upside down . |
| 9 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 10 | The National Bee Unit said the varroa parasite has been found north of Dartmoor . |
| 11 | A man accused of murder has been granted bail by magistrates . |
| 12 | On the one side , US aid has been made conditional on action against the drug trade . |
| 13 | Two thirds of those with baseline hypoxaemia had been born preterm and may have been suffering mild , clinically unapparent chronic lung disease . |
| 14 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 15 | It was 14 months later in January 1987 — shortly after Oliver North 's arms for hostages deal had been made public — that Waite was kidnapped while waiting in Dr Mroueh 's surgery for another meeting with the kidnappers . |
| 16 | Such a plea might be successful where the employee had been paid danger money to undertake precisely that risk . |
| 17 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |
| 18 | The man who listened into an alleged conversation between the Princess of Wales and a male friend says only parts of his tape have been made public , and that far more damaging sections may soon be revealed . |
| 19 | Fife Regional Council has been awarded EUROFORM funding to develop an HND in Community and Local Economic Development , |
| 20 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 21 | The first dimension has been labelled warmth-coldness , and is based on , for instance , the affection the mother shows the child , the extent to which she is demonstratively playful , her acceptance of the child 's dependency , and her use of reasoning in disciplining him . |
| 22 | Above all we should resist it because it is really intended to allow legalised Euthanasia to sneak in by the kitchen window having been refused entry at the front door . |
| 23 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
| 24 | Our home had been turned upside down , our little boy , who we now loved so much , was diagnosed as retarded and Andreas was told he would be jailed for up to seven years in Cyprus . |
| 25 | Examples of the range covered was weed identification in grassland , and feeding and management of the in-lamb ewe . |
| 26 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 27 | The court had heard evidence that the woman making the accusation had been nominated slut of the year at the college a reputation she claimed was undeserved . |
| 28 | The British management team has been allocated space in Croydon , where Mr Tony Brend , chief executive , chaired emergency meetings over the weekend to try to maintain ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 29 | A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window . |
| 30 | These deflation surfaces have been given a variety of names : desert pavement and boulder pavement are self-explanatory terms , while the gravel left after deflation has been termed lag gravel and in the Sahara a stone-strewn surface is known as hamada . |