Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There even men with the basic training of craft workers ( preferably in metals ) had still to be taught the specific skills of the skilled factory worker . |
| 2 | To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run . |
| 3 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
| 4 | Those are likely to be extended the following year to include time waits between GP referral and an appointment with a consultant . |
| 5 | His objective seemed to be to save the Radical party 's electoral chances by matching promise for promise the prospectus of the rival Justicialist party . |
| 6 | And yet few voters appear to be heeding the dire warnings from the conservationists … the party is trailing in the polls at around two per cent . |
| 7 | And we can see the rates for which the deduction is going to be applied the other side . |
| 8 | A group of ragged children and some idle women were watching him with amusement rather than disapproval , half applauding him with their cruel laughter , and although one woman boldly cried , ‘ Shame , ’ most seemed to be enjoying the unequal struggle . |
| 9 | There were a few startled shrieks , but for the most part the patrons seemed to be enjoying the sudden element of adventure that had been added to their evening . |
| 10 | Combined anti-terrorist units of troops , gendarmes and police officers were reported to be patrolling the main towns . |
| 11 | Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit . |
| 12 | The hon. Lady seems to be confusing the regulatory record of my Department with the regulators outside my Department , who were deliberately set up as independent regulators as a result of legislation passed by the House . |
| 13 | If I may start excuse me , my Lord Mayor , by answering something that appears to be confusing the Conservative benches . |
| 14 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 15 | President Abulfez Elchibey , elected in June [ see p. 38976 ] , was said to be reorganizing the Azerbaijani army . |
| 16 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 17 | The behaviour of the crowds — vulgar , noisy and violent — immediately excited considerable apprehension , and the excesses of the transfer market and professionalism were thought to be ruining the native traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship . |
| 18 | However , the meeting , representing 33 different organizations , voted to establish a body " without rigid structures " rather than a party , to be called the Democratic Choice Bloc . |
| 19 | It was during this period of what used to be called the Dark Ages that the ethnic map of Europe began to assume a character which in the main survives today . |
| 20 | THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 . |
| 21 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 22 | I do n't want to be called the 501 guy by any means , but it was fun . |
| 23 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) There shall be established a body to be called the Scottish Bus Passengers ' Consultative Committee . |
| 25 | New clause 5 proposes the establishment of a body , to be called the Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee , to monitor the effects of the legislation on passengers and to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State . |
| 26 | By about 1000 BC much smaller cattle began to appear and they came to be called the Celtic oxen , their different skull shape giving rise to the term Bos brachyceros or Bos longifrons , though they were not in fact of a separate species but members of the Bos taurus species like other longhorns and shorthorns in temperate regions . |
| 27 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 28 | The Sun used to be called the Daily Herald . |
| 29 | There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method . |
| 30 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |