Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document complains that few people are given council housing . |
| 2 | In Brazil , large landowners ( who are usually very rich anyway ) are given government subsidies to burn down trees so that cattle farms can be set up . |
| 3 | To generate even more interest in TNT the best departments from each factory are given £250 Argos gift vouchers to offer in a prize draw . |
| 4 | Boats are readily available to visitors , from various mooring bays around Harray , but my favourite venue is the Merkister Hotel , at the north-east end of the loch ; a true fishing hotel , to which anglers return , year after year ; where fishermen new to Orkney are given expert advice and endless encouragement . |
| 5 | The convivial atmosphere of a ‘ house party ’ prevails , as guests are given cookery demonstrations and invited to ‘ try their hand ’ before sampling many delicious traditionally Tuscan dishes . |
| 6 | During this time they are given drugs thought to be effective against Alzheimers — which also causes memory loss and lack of attention — to assess their efficacy . |
| 7 | Buyers are given assembly instructions and a video to help them in the building of their car , and Mr Nearn maintains that the kits are not difficult to put together . |
| 8 | Nuclear industry employees who work in areas where exposure to radiation is possible are given film badges to monitor their exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation . |
| 9 | The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English . |
| 10 | Unemployed people are given training opportunities in the hope of helping them find work . |
| 11 | The women are given fertility drugs to stimulate their ovaries , and are paid only if the doctor retrieves eggs for his programme . |
| 12 | Nowadays they get in free and are given VIP passes ( access to all areas ) , but tonight the five mates with whom they 've driven the 150 miles from Southport have all been refused entry by the Ritzy 's management for being under 20 . |
| 13 | They are given advice choosing topics by their tutors , the librarian talks to them about skills they will need ( based on the nine steps approach ) " and range of information available . |
| 14 | A bill which would allow prosecutors to appeal if defendants are given bail looks set to become law within weeks . |
| 15 | The problem has been that the field is owned by the builders Wimpey Homes , who refuse to allow the path to be developed unless they are given planning permission to build on at least part of the field . |
| 16 | Modules of type PACKAGE are given skeleton module headers automatically by LIFESPAN , as explained in Section 3 of this manual . |
| 17 | If the Secretary of State does not believe that GP fund holding produces two-tier waiting lists , how can he explain the position in Manchester , where patients of fund holders are given eye treatment in a private wing , while patients of other GPs wait 13 months for an appointment ? |
| 18 | The levees of the former rivers through the Fens are now marked by raised banks , or roddons , which have been favoured settlement sites due to their comparative dryness . |
| 19 | B-17F-30-VE 42 — 5897 had been christened Roundtrip Jack and wore an appropriate Jackass caricature with a golden tooth . |
| 20 | In homogenates from coeliac disease patients who had not been treated peptide concentrations of 10–25 µg/ml failed to increase adenylate cyclase activity consistently , whereas concentrations of 50–200 µg/ml all stimulated the enzyme to the same degree ( Figure ) . |
| 21 | New students are taught foot patterns from the basic horse stance . |
| 22 | Zimbabwe have been given Test status . |
| 23 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 24 | They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ? |
| 25 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 26 | The Bologna appeal court in April 1991 quashed the convictions of Mario Tuti and Luciano Franci , who had been given life sentences in December 1986 [ see p. 34956 ] in connection with the 1974 bombing of the Italicus express [ see p. 26820 ] . |
| 27 | In June 1991 the government made an official protest to the Solomon Islands alleging that the BRA had been given government facilities in Honiara to promote its cause . |
| 28 | The officers made much of us children : the Marine band played on deck and the captain fired off one of the guns , after we had been given cotton wool to stuff in our ears . |
| 29 | Our correspondence culminated in a letter on 14 August , stating : ’ From 22 July 1991 , family health service authorities ( FHSAs ) have been given management discretion to target funds in order to maximise value for money and service to patients . |
| 30 | PLANS for a new pavilion and recreation centre at Four Marks have been given outline permission . |