Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] status " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then spends ten minutes getting radio engineers — ‘ Here , have we heard of Duns ? ’ — to afford him diplomatic status , and then mend a faulty link . |
| 2 | He told Salan to deny them official status and to limit strictly their interference in public affairs . |
| 3 | Before writing The First Wives Club , she was an author of children 's books ( and she is not telling who ) ; before that , a marketing executive , a role , she says , which instructed her in the ‘ fear and loathing ’ with which corporate America regards women , and the depths to which it will stoop to deny them equal status . |
| 4 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 5 | Almost all had some form of conscious planning or deliberate encouragement from their lords to give them urban status . |
| 6 | ‘ On the contrary , I plan to give them special status . |