Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goalkeeper Stuart Ford is poised to join Scarborough on a one-year contract after being granted a free transfer by Rotherham United . |
| 2 | TRANSPLANT patient Lisa Strange , 12 , was fighting for her life yesterday after being given a new heart and lungs . |
| 3 | Alan Curtis , the former Welsh international striker , yesterday signed for Swansea after being given a free transfer by Cardiff . |
| 4 | DARLINGTON midfield player Gary Gill wants to play abroad after being given a free transfer by new manager Ray Hankin . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven yesterday joined second division promotion-chasers Port Vale on a 15-month contract after being given a free transfer . |
| 6 | ‘ My sister Dorothy died from stomach cancer just eight weeks after being given a clean bill of health by a Manchester hospital . |
| 7 | YOUNG riding sensation Adrian Maguire misses the last two days of Cheltenham 's Mackeson Gold Cup meeting after being handed a four-day whip ban by the Wincanton stewards yesterday . |
| 8 | Jacques Walter , the former owner of van Gogh 's ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , auctioned last year for only FFr55 million after being classified an historic monument ( see The Art Newspaper No.24 , January 1993 , p20 ) , has taken out four law suits against the French State for compensation . |
| 9 | There is some support for Burke and Chinkin 's view in the remarks of Denning LJ ( as he then was ) in Lee v Showmen 's Guild of Great Britain [ 1952 ] 2 QB 329 at 342 , where he stated that a domestic tribunal must observe the principles of natural justice ; but this was in the context of being given a reasonable opportunity to meet a " charge " , in this case the attempt to expel a member from a trade union . |
| 10 | She entered into the shame of bearing God 's Son and even ran the risk of being called a loose woman . |
| 11 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 12 | This means that the light , instead of being granted an unrestricted passage to the photocells , has to pass through a forest of connecting wires , pre-sumably suffering at least some attenuation and distortion ( actually probably not much but , still , it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer ! ) . |
| 13 | I do not need any lead because the size 6 hook will hold a lobworm which is quite capable of being cast a short distance , and able to sink under its own weight . |
| 14 | There were even imitation sheepskins , but worn at the risk of being considered a total nebbish . |
| 15 | They were waiting for a lobster boat 's arrival in expectation of being thrown a free dinner — less work than fishing on their own account ; which about summed up life on the Keys , Trent thought . |
| 16 | The film people wanted to shoot in the local pub , but the landlord refused them permission , explaining that he did not want to inconvenience his regular customers , despite being offered a tidy sum as recompense . |
| 17 | With each of is lost a distinctive system of concepts , a system for encoding and encapsulating experience , and a literature of songs and stories that probably contain elements that go back for thousands of years . |
| 18 | It was all just like being given a new recipe or a knitting pattern . |
| 19 | When Tim Pigott Smith looks directly at you , it 's like being given an electric shock . |
| 20 | He did it to protect Lennie from being killed a frightened man , by someone like Curley . |
| 21 | Wood Group Fire Protection 's Great Yarmouth branch performed well across its whole product range and was successful in being awarded a long term maintenance contract with Shell Expro . |
| 22 | Badly blunted blades can also be finished on this before being given a new cutting edge on the honing wheel . |
| 23 | AN American killer who stabbed a teenager and a boy aged seven to death said farewell to his fiancee in Britain before being given a lethal injection yesterday . |
| 24 | Polyester or down-filled sleeping bags will be washed or dry cleaned before being given a special waterproofing treatment with Nikwax TX10i . |
| 25 | At home he was a staunch supporter of the BDDA which he served as Chairman of the Further Education and Youth Committee for many years , before being elected a Grand Councillor and later awarded a medal of honour . |
| 26 | He barely had time to greet the town 's Tory candidate Michael Fallon before being handed a single iris appropriately blue by a florist working in the shop beneath the party office . |
| 27 | His first two days are likely to be spent on the induction wing while he is assessed by prison staff , before being allocated a permanent cell . |
| 28 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 29 | He was to bring Patrick back , any way he could , but the girl — if she was in Dublin — was to be taught a serious and possibly fatal lesson . |
| 30 | And they like to be taught a new board game |