Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was dragged out of bed half asleep after being kidnapped the night before . |
| 2 | ‘ Far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves … no slave is a slave to the same lengths and in so full a sense of the word as a wife is [ for her husband ] can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being , that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations . ’ |
| 3 | But comparison with the disasters which afflicted mid fifteenth-century Spain , and most of fifteenth-century England , immediately puts the Scottish experience into context ; Scotland was undoubtedly fortunate in being spared the experience of a Henry IV of Castile or Henry VI of England . |
| 4 | to 2,501,943 at the end of December , and finally reached 5,201,919 in March 1991 before being renamed the gold cordoba on March 4 and set at 5.0726 to the US dollar . |
| 5 | Meredith was relieved to be spared the embarrassment of unavoidable eavesdropping . |
| 6 | Clubs also look set to be given the option of having players ' names on the back of their shirts . |
| 7 | Ashenden , buttonholed as he was once again in the coffee-lounge by the diminutive dynamo from Sacramento , appeared only too glad to be given the opportunity of escaping , albeit to an interview with Chief Inspector Morse . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you ever taken part in a fire drill , ’ I ask a ticket collector at a station on the Jubilee Line ( which was supposed to be called the Fleet Line until the GLC 's Horace Cutler decided to change it in deference to the Queen at a cost of £50,000 ) . |
| 9 | COUNCILS are likely to be given the go-ahead to spend 9.5 per cent extra on capital projects in the coming year , according to planned allocations announced yesterday by Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary . |
| 10 | Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own . |
| 11 | But there is one consolation for the 37-year-old peer after assessment on the induction wing he is likely to be spared the indignity of slopping out . |
| 12 | And at times or places where our actions are likely to be misinterpreted the intensity of this indicative behaviour increases . |
| 13 | It 's great to be given the opportunity to try another outdoor activity and I enjoyed the challenge . |
| 14 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
| 15 | Education performs political , social , as well as economic functions and it is thus too important to be made the slave to the needs of the economy even though it has no option but to be its servant . |
| 16 | If the casual worker can not make himself available for the full length of time requested , he is unlikely to be offered the assignment , although exceptions will be made if the organisation is facing a tight labour market and can only cover its manpower requirements by bringing in " part-timers " . |
| 17 | The Health expert , Chloe Fisher , says it is a baby 's right to be given the right to breastfeeding . |
| 18 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 19 | The assistant finance officer with the Western Board — the first to been hoped the payroll personnel system would be operational in all boards by 1989 , so a three to four year delay has occurred . |
| 20 | In order to ensure fair play in this situation , those who kept within the regulation in this matter must be the first to be given the option ( ability proven , of course ) of playing for England this winter and subsequently for at least two years . |
| 21 | We already knew each other because he lives in Winchester , and I was very flattered to be given the commission by him . |
| 22 | He was disappointed at being denied the mastership of the Court of Wards , but his ambitions were partially satisfied with the captaincy of the Band of the King 's Gentlemen Pensioners in 1635 . |
| 23 | Despite his utterances during the brief encounter with Toby , Dominic had actually been surprised to be offered the job . |
| 24 | Banks that have been repeatedly successful with mergers have a blueprint for consolidation ready to be used the moment a merger is complete . |
| 25 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 26 | They all seek declarations to the following effect : ( a ) that as a matter of law in the case of a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the Secretary of State is required to set a period for retribution and deterrence which does not exceed the tariff recommended by the judiciary ; ( b ) that the Secretary of State is required by law to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended , and the reasons for that recommendation , and also if he has departed from that recommendation to tell the prisoner his reason for doing so ; ( c ) that the prisoner is entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before the tariff is set , and for this purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State will make his decision which is not in his , the prisoner 's , possession . |
| 27 | It was held by the Court of Common Pleas that the plaintiffs were entitled to be paid the reward due to them by the overseers who were in office at the date of sentence on the ground that until the keepers of the disorderly house had been sentenced there had been no conviction . |
| 28 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday announced that it had linked up with France Telecom to offer a version of the Macintosh PowerBook 180 portable to be called the PowerBop , Reuter reports from Paris . |