Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Even more striking is the provision that if such a tenement is not alienated , but the alms for which it was originally given are neglected over a period of two years , then the property shall again be recoverable at law by the donor or his heirs . |
| 3 | The candidate who brings his whole library to such an examination often fails : the facts that he needs are lost in a multitude of pages . |
| 4 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 5 | They take this view because they are alive to the fact that since 1935 no government has been elected by a majority of the electorate and secured 50 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 6 | Looking to the future , filming has been completed on a Service Quality Development video on telephone techniques . |
| 7 | In Fig 36 an example is given of a holding pattern that has been completed in a time of 4 mins 28 secs . |
| 8 | Plans to develop Penang Hill , an isolated patch of forest on one of Malaysia 's most densely-populated islands , has been halted after a protest campaign . |
| 9 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 10 | Construction work on the world 's largest hydroelectric project , in Northern Quebec , Canada , has been halted by a ruling from the National Energy Board that the project must comply with federal guidelines on the environment . |
| 11 | It was the first time the company has been prosecuted for a hygiene offence . |
| 12 | The sun has been snatched behind a curtain of black cloud . |
| 13 | The clipboard copy of the trees has been pasted into a Cel in the Cel Editor . |
| 14 | Lucky Ebenezer , 74 , and his 75-year-old wife , who has been fitted with a heart pacemaker , will now be taking life much easier at their home in Aberystwyth , west Wales . |
| 15 | Mr Kilfoyle has been invited to a conference on the area 's health services next month . |
| 16 | In gaining the title university , Napier has been recognised as a leader in higher education . |
| 17 | A service by Cromer 's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II on 21 November 1990 has been recognised in a letter of thanks to the crew from the Chairman of the Institution . |
| 18 | Agency has been recognised in a number of international contexts . |
| 19 | The effect has been recognised in a number of studies , not least in my own . |
| 20 | The Volvo Cup is the world indoor championship , but Del Mar 's new stadium has been built without a roof . |
| 21 | Hailed as Britain 's most successful industrial investment and one of Europe 's largest and most complex engineering projects , the Sellafield plant has been built to a deadline set six years ago . |
| 22 | Fothergill says his company 's reputation has been built on a philosophy that views a lift as more than a metal cabin ; rather something which can add value to a building . |
| 23 | This is an old place , indeed a Roman place , as is known from an inscription which has been built into a chapel on top of the highest of the surrounding hills , and which is dedicated to a local Romano-Iberic divinity of the name of Herauscorritsehe , which can not have tripped too easily from the pious tongue . |
| 24 | For the first time , a mentally handicapped child has been built into a programme about normal people living in normal lives , rather than made the subject of a sensational film or documentary . |
| 25 | Management development within British Rail has been built around a leadership programme for their top managers . |
| 26 | And in Great Britain there is the Atomic Weapons Establishment which has been built upon a World War Two airfield in the countryside of Berkshire , 50 miles from London and overlooking the Thames Valley . |
| 27 | Letter signed ’ , as distinct from ‘ Autograph letter signed ’ , means that the letter has been written by a clerk or secretary but that the king has added his signature . |
| 28 | Spender ( 1982 ) argues that male teachers are more likely to regard work highly if they think it has been written by a boy , although her research methodology is not made explicit . |
| 29 | Perhaps a similar report has been written by a colleague and is retained on a word processing disk . |
| 30 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |