Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare say many an exquisite new dish has been created because a cook made a mistake while trying to follow a recipe . |
| 2 | A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick . |
| 3 | A murder hunt has been launched after a man was shot dead in Scappa Street in Glasgow this morning . |
| 4 | And the effects we 've seen are caused when a Darkfall strike is absorbed by a building . |
| 5 | As the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one can vary during the day and acute increases have been found , a better correlation may have been obtained if a serum sample had been taken at more than one occasion from each patient . |
| 6 | Looking back , one can only wonder why no-one suggested easier ways of working , great economies could have been made if a time and motion expert had been employed . |
| 7 | Fire claimed more than six hundred lives in Britain last year , many may have been saved if a smoke alarm had been fitted . |
| 8 | It is surely not just and equitable to reduce the damages if the court is satisfied that as severe , or more severe , damage would have been caused if a seat belt had been worn . |
| 9 | A BRIDE-TO-BE says she could have been stranded after a wedding car company disappeared . |
| 10 | The total exposure of the vendors under the warranties and indemnities shall be limited to the consideration paid and ( if higher ) the consideration that would have been paid if a dividend and any other non trading transaction ( e.g. pension fund contributions , compensations for loss of office , etc. ) had not been paid between [ date ] and completion but will not exceed £ [ ] million . |
| 11 | For instance , a young child 's capacity to read is improved because a parent or a playgroup or a nursery class gives a good start . |
| 12 | Since 1952 , when the New Hampshire election was first seriously contested , no President had been re-elected after a challenger in his party had scored 35 per cent or more in the state 's primary . |
| 13 | His back was lacerated , the tips of his ears bloody where they had been cropped whilst a fool 's cap , fastened to his head , listed his lies and deceptions . |
| 14 | On July 17 the Turkish consul , Deniz Bolukbasi , and two other members of the consulate staff had been injured when a car bomb exploded near the Turkish consulate in Athens . |
| 15 | Two weeks earlier , on March 15 , Mehrdad Kowkabi , an Iranian student held in the UK for 15 months , had been deported after a court dropped charges of arson against him , and Iranian officials had been quoted as saying that the government might respond to this " positive step " by releasing Cooper . |
| 16 | A few examples have been found where a number of graptoloids seem to have been associated together attached ( by the nema ) to a ‘ float ’ . |
| 17 | Two youths have been arrested after a motorcyclist was seriously injured when he was hit by a stolen car . |
| 18 | Several classifications have been proposed although a modification of that recently advocated ( Christlieb , 1982 ) appears a practical and useful guide for management ( Table 3.1 ) . |