Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 2 | they can help to liven up a salad or be used a nutritious snack , combined with an apple or another fruit . |
| 3 | Recommended by live letters of the Daily Mirror , comfortable family run guest house , away from the hustle of the town centre yet only twenty minutes walk to the conference centre , and two minutes walk to the seafront , situated in old worldy Kemptown , you will be welcomed by Hilda and Doug Beard , and be served a full English breakfast , tea making facilities are in all rooms also colour TV , keys are provided with access at all times , there is also free street parking . |
| 4 | The third segment might look very like a and be assigned a high score on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic features . |
| 5 | The word ‘ god ’ must , in the minds of all , be divorced for ever from all its varied historical associations and be given a new meaning . |
| 6 | Since married men were normally exempt , youths in some areas might for this reason marry as young as fourteen or fifteen and be given a small piece of land by their parents to maintain themselves : the proliferation of very small peasant holdings in Denmark has been attributed to this factor . |
| 7 | If they chose Ireland , as I believe most of them would , then the Ascendancy could once more be drawn to the heart of Irish life and be given a high-minded function . |
| 8 | They also stated that if no help was forthcoming they might later in the year repeal the international law of first asylum under which the boat people were allowed to apply for refugee status and be given a fair hearing . |
| 9 | Candidates therefore need to understand the scope of the job and be given a clear job description . |
| 10 | Winners will stay two nights in the Futuroscope Hotel and be given a three-day pass to the park . |
| 11 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 12 | Diana could choose to stay within the Royal Family and be allowed a greater measure of freedom . |