Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 2 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 3 | Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit . |
| 4 | It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there . |
| 5 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 6 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 7 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 8 | Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company . |
| 9 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 10 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 11 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 12 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 13 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 14 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 15 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 16 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 17 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 18 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 19 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 20 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 21 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 22 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 23 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 24 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 25 | Her loose silk smock had been raised , while the elastic waistband of her matching trousers had been lowered a few inches so that her pale abdomen , not yet beginning to swell with the new life inside her , was ready to be smeared lightly with the gel that would facilitate the task of finding the tiny heartbeat . |
| 26 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 27 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 28 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 29 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 30 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |