Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember being given some caviar once when we were in Russia — wrapped in newspaper because they had no containers to put it in ! |
| 2 | Tack was left some money in his mother 's will and decided that he should give up his job and go in to business for himself . |
| 3 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 4 | Aye that er You 've Been Framed that dog in the water with that man . |
| 5 | Not Beadle 's About , You 've Been Framed next week |
| 6 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
| 7 | Cos if you were asked as , as , as a person by , by a manager or by somebody else to , to actually do the training , then it 's your responsibility is n't it you 've been asked , you 've been given that task and it 's your responsibility to ensure that people are able to do at the end of the session something effectively . |
| 8 | Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 9 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 10 | Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location . |
| 11 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 12 | No er we 've been told that Radio Leicester , our colleagues here at Radio Leicester tell us that there 's a bit of a delay in sending out C Ds . |
| 13 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 14 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 15 | Mothers have been warned that alcohol and tobacco — as well as various medicines and other chemicals — can injure a fetus . |
| 16 | Then she would at least have been able to ask if he was anything to do with Massingham Engineering — and thereby have been prepared this morning . |
| 17 | Restrictions on water use have been imposed this month in areas of the south and east of the country , which is experiencing the worst drought this century . |
| 18 | The six men and six women have been questioned all day by detectives : |
| 19 | Given the horrendous job losses that have been announced this month in the manufacturing sector , are these signs of the success of the Government 's economic policy ? |
| 20 | You will still call that colour ‘ green ’ because you too have been taught that grass is always green . |
| 21 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 22 | Many of the points which have been raised this evening will be considered in Committee . |
| 23 | I have been sent another example , which is rather more serious . |
| 24 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 25 | Lam exhibitions have been mounted this month at The Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid ( until 14 December and then travelling to the Fundació Miró in Barcelona , 21 January–28 March , 1993 ) , the Villa Medici in Rome , the home of the French Academy ( until 24 January 1993 and the first show of the artist 's work in Italy ) and in New York . |
| 26 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |
| 27 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 28 | In the Northern General hospital NHS trust , six new consultants have been appointed this year and 95 per cent . |
| 29 | Resources for employment training have been cut this year and for youth training are roughly the same , even though the need is so much greater . |
| 30 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |