Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And in between were ranged a number of additional hopes and objectives all of which were intended to contribute toward the creation of the ideal citizen .
2 Perhaps with being wanted a lot .
3 The first British single release for this month is still being debated , but whichever track is picked , Me Phi Me is confident his message is strong enough to be heard the world over .
4 But she was old enough to be assigned a dowry , a stretch of land which lay between the rivers Seine , Epte and Andelle , known as the Norman Vexin .
5 What is a Member of Parliament to do when , having been lucky enough to be given an Adjournment debate by you , Mr. Speaker , and having given a copy of his entire speech to the Foreign Office at 9.45 in the morning , the Minister — in this case the Minister of State , the hon. and learned Member for Grantham ( Mr. Hogg ) — makes no attempt whatever to answer the deeply serious issues that have been raised ?
6 Application for a grant should be made at the same time as the application for an audition in order that you can be sure of your position should you be fortunate enough to be offered a place .
7 Gillian Newsum has just written an excellent book about him and we were lucky enough to be offered an extract to whet your appetite !
8 Eight months before , his Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo had been staged and published in Rome — musically , it is arguable , a finer work than Peri 's but not dramatic enough to be considered an opera ; the allegorical personages were costumed , and there were dances , but the work was performed in the Oratorio della Vallicella and human interest and the sense of festivity , both indispensable to opera , were necessarily lacking .
9 Now it would seem that they are not only to be denied an increase , but also to be faced with a reduction .
10 Charles realised with a jolt that he was not to be given a room in the château .
11 Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ?
12 It is suggested that it is unsatisfactory to allow the rent to be fixed in reliance on assertions made by the parties which can not be challenged by cross examination , and where the expert is not to be given an opportunity of seeing and evaluating the quality of the witnesses .
13 He moved in against his young brother , slowly this time , determined not to be made a fool of twice .
14 There were chances at both ends and Aberdeen were unfortunate not to be awarded a penalty when Shearer went to meet a Paatelainen cross only to be barged from behind by Narey .
15 He was disappointed not to be offered a place at RADA .
16 LABOUR MP George Galloway won £150,000 damages and costs yesterday for being branded a liar .
17 In times when there is occasion for rejoicing as , for example , in the gathering of a successful harvest , a happy emergence from trouble or natural disaster and on many other occasions there is always to be observed an urge to offer thanks to someone or something .
18 In particular , it has taken a strong line against price fixing ( e.g. dyestuffs , glass containers ) and market sharing or quantity agreements ( e.g. cement ) to the extent that such practices are now unlikely ever to be granted an exemption .
19 AN AMBULANCEMEN has called for a man who rescued a youth from mountainous seas yesterday to be given a bravery award .
20 The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable .
21 On 3 July 1992 he announced that the French people were also to be given a referendum on the subject of whether Maastricht would be ratified .
22 As we have seen , schools are also to be given the option of leaving the Local Authority altogether and becoming in some sense independent , though with non-fee-paying pupils .
23 They often responded positively to being given a chance , but as time went on , the same families ended up with the father on the dole and older brothers and sisters unable to find work .
24 More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna .
25 In May 1940 with the threat of invasion a call went out for volunteers for a new force to be known as the Local Defence Volunteers or for short L.D.V. This was later to be called the Home Guard and " Dad 's Army " .
26 ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell .
27 It is n't every day that someone starts on the ground floor and ends up by being made a director of the firm .
28 A YOUNG mother has hit out after being offered a council house with a garden which she claims is in a dangerous state .
29 That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as it was meant to at one time .
30 That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time .
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