Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Face contact is limited to ‘ glove touch ’ only , though high kicks are given a little more leeway |
| 2 | Old Priam ( fig. 92 ) watching Hector arm is made bald and stubbly ; and in the three great revellers on the back of the same vase ( fig. 93 ) Euphronios 's écorchés are given a more natural layer of fat over the muscle , and the foreshortening of the torsos is really remarkable . |
| 3 | As a filler we are given an equally eloquent account of the Alto Rhapsody , with Bernadette Greevy in glorious voice . |
| 4 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 5 | Firstly , we are seeing a dramatically increased number of rapes being processed by the police and courts . |
| 6 | And it also shows the special circumstances which tend to tie women into the sort of close personal relationship with a weekly credit caller which can mean they are using a relatively costly form of credit almost automatically — see chapter 5 . |
| 7 | ‘ We are forecasting a very exciting time developing our activities in London and we will continue to gear our services to the clients requirements and ensure that our approach is a refreshing change . ’ |
| 8 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 9 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
| 10 | The Silkience Hair Range , well known for its self-adjusting formula , has been given a completely new look . |
| 11 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 12 | Had they been given a more accurate picture of what was actually taking place , would they have reacted differently ? |
| 13 | Cross-examined by Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , on the eighth day of the libel trial , Lord Aldington told the court that he now considered the interests of the Cossacks had not been given a sufficiently high priority by the British Army and the War Cabinet . |
| 14 | His eyes seemed to fasten on her immediately and Maggie had the irritated feeling that he had been given a very uncomplimentary description of her . |
| 15 | Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved . |
| 16 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 17 | The great difficulty with music-hall and vaudeville , and this is a point of crucial significance to movie historians , is that they have earned or been given a very special place in the popular memory and in social history by those who recall with great fondness those heady pre-1914 days . |
| 18 | Many may feel that the ‘ use it or lose it ’ ruck-maul law has not really been given a long enough trial . |
| 19 | Meanwhile in other areas of life , even church life , professionalization and training has been given an increasingly high profile . |
| 20 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
| 21 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 22 | These procedures are generating an increasingly large part of contemporary feminist literature . |
| 23 | While the hon. Gentleman has been travelling up and down the country assuring the training and enterprise councils of his support , the hon. Member for Fife , Central , his fellow Front-Bench spokesman on these matters , has been singing a somewhat different tune . |
| 24 | The vitamin E level would have had to fall much further to produce a deficiency and this would have been unlikely to happen in Alan or anyone else unless they are eating a very poor diet indeed . |
| 25 | The survey also showed that many people are eating a very poor diet . |
| 26 | ‘ Many are eating a very poor diet ’ |
| 27 | The survey also showed that many people are eating a very poor diet . |
| 28 | In view of what we have said about the suitability of particular registers for writing , you may be surprised that we ourselves are adopting a relatively conversational register in this book . |
| 29 | But candidates for the presidency are becoming an increasingly rare breed , and this time round the officers ' task has not been easy . |
| 30 | With the Gulf crisis threatening to raise fuel prices further , wind generators and solar panels are becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to petrol and diesel generators . |