Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way that can be ensured , as the Minister recognised in our debate on pension schemes , is if the buy-outs are given a real opportunity to succeed . |
| 2 | While the rest of America has to make do with a fridge full of beer and a chair at screen-side , the two participating cities are permitted a temporary suspension of reason for this the first Bay Bridge Series . |
| 3 | DRTX runs on the company 's new RSX 90 systems , and users of the company 's proprietary Concept/32 real-time minicomputers are offered a cost-effective upgrade option . |
| 4 | Perhaps inevitably , this means that some of the detail of particular research has been omitted , but the general clarity of the articles and their accompanying lists of references are such that intelligent readers are given a clear view of their particular interests and encouraged to delve deeper should they wish . |
| 5 | From about the time of the invention of red-figure some black-figure vases are given a white slip covering the orange clay . |
| 6 | Here your eyes are given a difficult task to perform . |
| 7 | Each defendant and his witness are given a limited time — say fifteen minutes altogether — in the box . |
| 8 | The correct words are given a shaded background . |
| 9 | There is no length to a discussion , unlike a talk where speakers are given a specific time for delivery . |
| 10 | Subjects are given a particular word — let us say the word lead — and then they listen to a pair of sentences and press a button as soon as they hear the target word . |
| 11 | All patients new to the practice are given a temporary folder , which is stamped with the date that the permanent notes were requested from the family health services authority . |
| 12 | For the advisory service clients are charged a flat rate of £250 annually and higher dealing costs . |
| 13 | Clients are given a huge piece of paper and paints with which they can unlock the feelings welling up inside them . |
| 14 | As part of Siemens ' R/3 Live package , clients are offered a full business analysis and feasibility study on the basis of which a fixed fee is then agreed for system implementation . |
| 15 | As part of Siemens ' R/3 Live package , clients are offered a full business analysis and feasibility study on the basis of which a fixed fee is then agreed for system implementation . |
| 16 | It is not surprising then that school plays ( ‘ theatre ’ ) must in practice be given a low priority . |
| 17 | The muffled words were given a seductive rhythm by the drumming of the rain . |
| 18 | In education , schools were given a similar opportunity to opt out of local government control . |
| 19 | When the final text of the poem was published after its author 's death , readers were given a revised version . |
| 20 | With last month 's Winter Olympics receiving over 160 hours of television programming and three weeks of heavy newspaper , magazine and TV coverage , rugby enthusiasts in the United States were given a vivid lesson as to the power of being associated with the Olympics in making sporting heroes out of previously little-known athletes . |
| 21 | His face and neck were burnt a dark-scarlet colour and patches had peeled , exposing bright pink lesions underneath , but he seemed not to notice . |
| 22 | TOUCHE ROSS , the pace setters , and defending champions Kelburne were given a timely reminder last week that this season 's Torrie Stockbrokers ' National Men 's League has a long way to go , as they both sustained their first defeats of the season . |
| 23 | Company cars were charged a double rate and — a master stroke — cars with four or more occupants were allowed in free . |
| 24 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 25 | RESEARCH programmes at a North Wales college were given a big cash boost last night . |
| 26 | With this in mind all those who indicated a preference for evening sessions were asked a supplementary question to ascertain their mental and physical alertness and receptiveness . |
| 27 | Taylor yesterday underlined the lighter mood in the England camp when he kidded journalists : ‘ I am afraid Gazza 's taken a bad knock and I 've drafted in Vinnie Jones … ’ |
| 28 | Volatile solvent extraction is employed a great deal in the perfume industry because it produces superb fragrances which are truer to the aroma found in the living plant . |
| 29 | In juxtapositions such as large bony vine , clumsy black headstocks , dishevelled pink chrysanthemums , the associations of adjectives seem to interact , so that , for example , pink is given a tawdry overtone by its neighbour dishevelled . |
| 30 | ‘ A concert pianist is allowed a wrong note here and there , ’ Amis observed in his introduction to The New Oxford Book of Light Verse ( 1978 ) , ‘ a juggler is not allowed to drop a plate . ’ |