Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modules in which competences are developed applicable in a range of contexts . |
| 2 | POLICE cells in Hastings , Sussex , have been painted pink in a bid to relax violent prisoners . |
| 3 | When she was n't required for her scene in the court room of Alexandria she was fetching and carrying and dabbing calamine lotion on the shoulders of John Harbour who , earlier in the day , had been broiled pink as a lobster by inexpertly using a sun-lamp . |
| 4 | The kitchen was small and cramped , the house having been built pre-war with a dining room which you were expected to eat in . |
| 5 | According to an engineer 's report , the welds have been made brittle as a result of neutron bombardment . |
| 6 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
| 7 | ‘ For the purposes of this Article an article or substance is not to be regarded as properly used where it is used without regard to any relevant information or advice relating to its use which has been made available by a person by whom it was designed , manufactured , imported or supplied . ’ |
| 8 | The planned closure of 31 of the remaining 50 coal mines in Britain , which has now been made subject to a review after widespread protests , will have serious environmental implications , the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) and others have warned . |
| 9 | The gift will not have been made subject to a reservation . |
| 10 | Jackson had been made redundant as a result of a drastic decline in orders and Turner 's company had gone into liquidation . |
| 11 | However , even this process has been made uncompetitive by a method developed by Monsanto in the US . |
| 12 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 13 | A few days later the national press carried the headlines that the UM plants in the Midlands had now been made idle as a consequence of the Merseyside strike . |
| 14 | Chata , their chief , had been shot dead by a bank guard in Wyoming during an attempted hold-up . |
| 15 | A Shia cleric , an enemy of the regime , had been shot dead in a hotel lobby in Khartoum . |
| 16 | What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals ? |
| 17 | We must build on the success and continue to press all political parties to develop financial and social policies which ensure that sufficient affordable homes for rent are made available as a matter of policy . |
| 18 | Given that notion , we might hold that most sentences , when true , are made true by a combination of what they mean and how the world is . |
| 19 | Places that are dank in winter but pleasantly cool in summer , are made delightful by a stone bowl or tulips or a tumble of petunias . |
| 20 | They are supplied complete with a multi-volt recharger , battery pack , and hinged carrying case . |
| 21 | Accident prevention is extremely important because there are certain situations where you will be unable to help yourself , such as if you are rendered unconscious through a fall or an electric shock . |
| 22 | Tonight , three people are found dead at a house in Buckinghamshire . |
| 23 | Hundreds of people are feared dead after a mining disaster in Turkey . |
| 24 | Three soccer fans accused of using forged banknotes have been set free by a judge in Turkey , and inflation 's dropped to its lowest level in thirty years . |
| 25 | That he should have been proved wrong on a number of points should occasion no surprise . |
| 26 | HAVING been laid low with a virus for the past month , Alison Sheppard will make a tentative return to competition in next weekend 's West of Scotland Championships before facing world-class competition in the Edinburgh International Meet from 8-10 April . |
| 27 | England goalkeeper Nigel Martyn has also been laid low by a virus this week . |
| 28 | A bathroom had been laid open like a film set . |
| 29 | ( FCA ) of , having been found guilty of misconduct contrary to Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in Cardiff between 26 March 1991 and 4 February 1992 purported to exercise a lien over the papers of his former client when he was not entitled to do so and having been guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( ii ) in that he in Cardiff between 22 May 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with professional enquiries from Chartered Accountants in respect of the affairs of his former client and having been found guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in Cardiff between 17 December 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee on 17 December 1991 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning the affairs of his former client was reprimanded , fined £750 and ordered to pay £l , 000 by way of costs . |
| 30 | Flashman 's lawyer Stanley Beller issued a statement afterwards saying : ‘ Quite simply , Barnet have been found guilty of a number of technical offences . |