Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservationists claim that unless the deal is actually signed a new owner may not feel bound by it . |
| 2 | Even when an oxytocic agent is not given a small proportion of patients show an increase in plasma oxytocin concentration during the late second or early third stage of labour . |
| 3 | ‘ If there are riot police , ’ he says , ‘ then vigilantes will appear , because there will always be somebody to see to it that crime is never given a free rein . ’ |
| 4 | Therapy is still considered a marginal thing but I really do n't see why . |
| 5 | Provided there 's access to the plane and the fuselage is not crushed a few minutes should tell us all we want to know . |
| 6 | Mrs Chalker , whose seat was always considered a possible casualty , lost her majority to Labour with a loss of 1,819 votes . |
| 7 | All members of the department are actively committed to research , on the basis of which the department was recently given a top research rating by the Universities Funding Council . |
| 8 | KATAHDIN : Unplaced behind Triomphe Modest over 6 furlongs at Nottingham on Tuesday , but this colt was not given a punishing race when running on very well to finish only a few lengths off the winner . |
| 9 | When Mr Stroud met the family , on Monday , he said the bear was not considered a Christian symbol . |
| 10 | NO HORSE was ever given a better or more fitting name than Nijinsky and few have paid their namesake more graceful compliments . |
| 11 | Mrs Piggott 's BUSTED ROCK was not given a hard race when 14½l sixth to Satin Lover at Ascot and is open to plenty of improvement . |
| 12 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 13 | Marriage is not considered a sufficient commitment . |
| 14 | Each words in the lattice is then given a syntactic rating based on the probabilities of the transitions it participates in . |
| 15 | Because work is still considered a male role , leisure , similarly , is thought to be a male preserve . |
| 16 | Because his exhibition programme was among the country 's ( and the world 's ) most impressive , the museum is now deemed a premier destination for philanthropic largesse . |
| 17 | Immediately outside the ozone-depleted zone is often found a crescent-shaped region of ozone-rich air which accentuates the image of an ozone ‘ hole ’ as depicted on maps of Antarctic ozone concentration ( figure 6.7 ) . |
| 18 | This is why graphology was not given a separate heading in our checklist of stylistic features in 3.1 ; it was understood that such features , where of stylistic interest , would be noted under the heading of foregrounding . |
| 19 | Although the Koons ' work is also being shown in Strange Developments , Sherman 's work was not given a similar position of prominence , nor even hung in the same location as Koons ' , as if the exhibition organisers were emphatically hoping to avoid any challenging comparisons . |
| 20 | In the early days of life the infant is sometimes called a new-born . |
| 21 | is er the fact that carriage cleaning was probably considered a low grade I think you 'd have felt it was |
| 22 | Sigmoidoscopy was not considered a necessary part of the investigation in the absence of a recent change in bowel habit , observed rectal bleeding , or an abnormality on digital rectal examination . |
| 23 | ‘ That first record was finally released a good 18 months later than it should have been , ’ said the source . |
| 24 | Thomas Biggs , in his address to the Social Science Association in 1870 , complained that such a ‘ painful … topic is not considered a proper theme for discussion … by the great majority of the House of Commons ’ . |
| 25 | Adoption was not made a legal procedure until 1926 . |
| 26 | THE father of Princess Stephanie of Monaco 's newborn baby was yesterday given a 15-day suspended jail sentence for beating up a motorist . |
| 27 | A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is often called a stoichiometric process Many ionic reactions produce quantitative yields . |
| 28 | Each word is then given a syntactic rating based on the score assigned to the word 's grammar tag(s) . |
| 29 | Music is generally accorded a low priority and is underfunded , and standards of performance are unsatisfactory in many places . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available . |