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

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1 The employee needs to be given training in products , technologies and business methods used in the overseas company in which he will be working .
2 And er the bread and butter for their tea had to be cut wafer thin .
3 ‘ The issue has to be tackled head on .
4 The urban child needs to be given opportunity to explore the quieter reflective world of woodland and meadow .
5 Life in the Reed household tends to be organised chaos but mealtimes are always enjoyable occasions with lots of chatter .
6 Mixed stands of oak and ash continued to be planted upto 1945 .
7 Most of the mining remains to be found date from the nineteenth century , during the last period of activity before cheaper foreign copper brought about the decline and fall of the local industry .
8 Therefore , argue Trist et al. , the work group has to be given responsibility for the entire cycle of operations , and for handling the interdependence between those on different shifts .
9 The whole place seemed to be organised chaos .
10 He modernized their Stratford works , using largely American labour-saving machines and equipment which in many cases enabled process costs to be reduced five- to tenfold .
11 It is at this point that the historical link between the novel and the written text began to be lost sight of ; the highly unrealistic convention of the omniscient third person narrator then became a realist norm .
12 After a bugle call to rise at 8.30 the day seemed to be spent eating : breakfast and lunch were followed by dinner at 4 p.m. which consisted of ‘ … soup , various kinds of roasts , fowls etc. , pastry , puddings … cheese and celery — dessert , consisting of apples , oranges , dried fruit etc . ’
13 The country 's most popular horse race was reduced to a shambles last April when 30 riders failed to realise that a second false start had been called and the event had to be declared void .
14 Section 60(2) , for example , has to be made to work in a case where the person entitled to be paid compensation is a beneficiary under a bare trust and not the person who made the deposit .
15 The District Office obtained some extra coupons to keep tutor-organisers mobile and part-time tutors showed splendid generosity in using up their own allowances to fulfil their commitments : indeed , not one course in the whole of the District had to be abandoned part-way through the spring term because the tutor could not travel .
16 The programme is no good without the call but the call and vision have to be given shape by a pragmatic programme .
17 Eventually , though , the program has to be tested in-circuit .
18 The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line .
19 Love has already come out firmly as a feminist who believes that a certain female viewpoint needs to be given space , but even she sees the dichotomy between feminism and her ‘ battered slut in baby dolls ’ image .
20 This problem has to be tackled head on ; without it any other tinkering with the legislation is just a waste of time . ’
21 The establishment of TECs was debated and fought in the House , but it is now evident that the TECs are doing good work and that the system needs to be given time to settle down .
22 The problem appears to be reduced affinity of the receptor for the toxin .
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