Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that depredations had occurred before they got to Strichen ; Boswell , who had visited fifteen years earlier , clearly expected more from the druidical circle , although whether to impress Johnson further , or to avoid being thought an inaccurate provider of anticipations , is difficult to tell , as he does not expand beyond saying , ‘ … |
| 2 | He may have some that he did not use last year , or he may have become interested in a topic in the syllabus that has been given a new twist by some research ( perhaps his own ) . |
| 3 | I think Klute is a superb film and I think he ( his father ) set an acting style in that film that has been mimicked a great deal since . |
| 4 | Even those that survive are given a severe check and often produce poor growth . |
| 5 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 6 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 7 | Now all that remained was to find a suitable woman to replace Mildred . |
| 8 | He 's right , he has the body of a whippet topped by the face of a bulldog that 's been given a severe kicking . |
| 9 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 10 | It has lofty and spacious reception rooms and a ballroom and has been declared a national monument . |
| 11 | Although relatively creaky as an operating system , the DOS installed base is vast — maybe over 100 million — and has been given a new lease of life by the runaway success of Windows . |
| 12 | The South as an image lives on , and has been given a new elixir with the appointment of Julius Nyerere as the head of the South Commission . |
| 13 | The £750 Heineken Puppy Trophy winner has an average sectional time of 5.26 and usually flies out of the boxes and has been given an ideal trap six draw . |
| 14 | ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave . |
| 15 | Greene King already owns 28% of Morland and has been promised a further 14.9% . |
| 16 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 17 | To their creaking and grumbling was added a new note , comparable to music . |
| 18 | He had been to Martin Finkelstein 's bar mitzvah and had been given a small white hat , which was still on his mantelpiece at home . |
| 19 | Clayton had visited Australia in 1988 and had been given a firm job offer by the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 20 | Yes , Jack had certainly cracked in the pro-am , and had been given a sharp reprimand by the tournament director , Oliver Moreton , no doubt much to the latter 's enjoyment . |
| 21 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 22 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 23 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 24 | The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh , I believe , had a recent £200,000 deficit , but has been awarded a larger grant . |
| 25 | There 's nothing to suggest the crimes are connected at this stage but wqe are keeping an open mind . |
| 26 | On one level you may be preoccupied with establishing greater financial stability but what may be equally as pressing is finding a real sense of belonging and a deep emotional rapport with a partner . |