Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 2 | Whilst most of the program elements exist for designing component parts , the main development remaining to be undertaken lies in the procedures for allowing the designer a rapid comparison between a large range of schemes and known design parameters . |
| 3 | Thus it may be committed by wrongfully taking possession of goods , by wrongfully disposing of them , by wrongfully destroying them or simply by wrongfully refusing to give them up when demanded , for in all these cases can be traced conduct by the defendant which amounts to a denial of the plaintiff 's rights or the assertion of inconsistent rights . |
| 4 | It struck her as peculiar that Mr Browning should not have given Mr Surtees Cook his Rome address for this telegram could not be relayed south in under another twenty-four hours and perhaps more . |
| 5 | Dr Van Vliet wants the growing countries , including Burma , China , India , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines and Thailand , to be given help for artificial propagation when the trade in wild plants is banned . |
| 6 | Alternatively , or in addition to this , wives may be given help in re-entering employment when the couple return to Britain on completing their assignment . |
| 7 | This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment . |
| 8 | A computer would have to be given knowledge about human eating habits before it could interpret this . |
| 9 | Instead of discounts on their council houses , would-be buyers could be given grants of up to £25,000 to buy on the open market . |
| 10 | On the same day , however , it passed a highly controversial law by which all residents of Lithuania would be given certificates of citizenship provided they signed a pledge to uphold Lithuania 's independence constitution . |
| 11 | A question might arise as to whether spectators can be given directions under sections 12 or 14 , or be guilty of offences of failing to comply with such conditions . |
| 12 | In framing the loan agreement both the government and the Bank had formally agreed that high-powered international management of the meat plants and ranches was necessary to success , that pastoral cattle keepers should be given title to their land ( an innovation ) , and that the meat price should be raised , thus restraining urban demand . |
| 13 | The last thing most of these people want is to be given reasons for changing their minds . |
| 14 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 15 | The court must be given reasons for the decision , together with details of any service or assistance actually provided or to be provided in the future , or any other action taken or proposed ( s37(3) ) . |
| 16 | A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service . |
| 17 | A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London 's transport services . |
| 18 | The idea of the clinical directorate is that the groupings of service providers can be given responsibility for organising their work including its planning and budgeting control . |
| 19 | The study did not show any major differences between doctors and nurses , indicating that nurses who are specifically trained to assess attempted suicide patients and who work in a team where there is a psychiatrist available for consultation and supervision can be given responsibility for the initial assessment of these patients . |
| 20 | Therefore , argue Trist et al. , the work group has to be given responsibility for the entire cycle of operations , and for handling the interdependence between those on different shifts . |
| 21 | Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors . |
| 22 | A specific senior nurse should be given responsibility for updating the establishment profile as a result of planned developments in service which affect staffing requirements anywhere within the Health Authority . |
| 23 | Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty . |
| 24 | a lead authority structure — one authority would be given responsibility for water and sewerage services for its own and surrounding areas . |
| 25 | Specifically , governors should be given responsibility for defining the broad aims of the school ; they in turn should invite the head and staff to devise means of pursuing them , and should themselves monitor the school 's progress towards them . |
| 26 | After the Tay floods , calls were made for SEPA to be given responsibility for flood prevention schemes — at present a discretionary duty of regional councils . |
| 27 | At first the allies decided that the Kurds and the Armenians should be given states of their own in what is now eastern Turkey . |
| 28 | Why should a thousand people be given licence by the district council to do what an individual would be arrested for doing , and why should the police who would arrest you or I for doing it , be paid overtime out of the public purse to stand and watch this organised chaos wend its way across the city ? |
| 29 | ( i ) Preferential creditors As a matter of policy , insolvency law has to determine ( a ) what constitutes insolvency proceedings and ( b ) whether any particular class of creditors should be given protection in the insolvency of a company and accorded a statutory preference over some or all of the company 's creditors . |
| 30 | If this were so we would not find the genuine uneasiness about an influx of strangers ( or outside influences ) that can not in any realistic sense threaten the members of the group as individuals , for instance , the insistence by sections of the US citizens that English — of all languages — has to be given protection against immigrant languages by the grant of an official monopoly of public use . |