Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [vb pp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broadcasting of discussions and debates between politicians of widely different positions takes place regularly and , when interviewed , critics of the Federal Government appear to be given the same kind of deferential treatment as Federal spokesmen . |
| 2 | ‘ However , that depends how the Irish Hockey Union view the situation and I expect to be asked a few questions . |
| 3 | The Moslems expect to be told the same any time . |
| 4 | Special care baby units are phenomenally expensive in equipment ; there 's an awful lot of monitoring equipment that 's required , and it has to be updated every few years , and the costs are quite out of proportion to the amount of money available to the health authority , so that er , on the whole , special care baby units throughout the country now rely virtually totally on charitable giving . |
| 5 | Gardens which have been carefully designed and closely planted may appear to be unsuitable for additional plantings of herbs , but a herbaceous border , for instance , which needs to be re-dug every few years , with some of its incumbents divided or discarded , can well take some herbal plants , to supply flowers and/or architectural quality . |
| 6 | Rain water is ideal , tap water needs to be left a few days to mature before stocking . |
| 7 | Does the Great Tower seem to be shifted a few yards ? |
| 8 | People are different and they do n't want to be treated the same . |
| 9 | To attract the best patrons the movie-houses had to ape the conventions and the standards of theatres and opera-houses but very quickly the whole industry realized that the appeal of the movie palaces was not unrelated to the fact that all customers had to be treated the same and so they became temples of a new classlessness . |
| 10 | Why then , it will be asked , do ‘ visible extension and figures come to be called the same name with tangible extension and figures , if they are not of the same kind with them ’ ? |
| 11 | Camcorders on the other hand have to be given a little help to cope with different kinds of lighting by adjustment of their internal white balance settings to enable them to ‘ see ’ white as the same neutral colour regardless of the conditions . |
| 12 | I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day . |
| 13 | They need to be divided every few years , so that good flowers will continue to appear . |