Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [vb pp] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though my sisters and I were never given pocket money . |
| 2 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 3 | She 's already obtained planning permission for the outbuildings . |
| 4 | She said that she was probably had stomach ache because she was hungry . |
| 5 | These front line workers , like the rest of us , have certain taken-for-granted ideas about ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ parenting , and they are also given expert knowledge that tells them some of the factors to which child abuse is positively related . |
| 6 | They are apparently called Chesapeake Bay Retrievers although |
| 7 | However , while Accountancy Personnel estimated similar average pay increases of around two per cent , it is also noted student recruitment and partnership prospects for qualifieds were on the up and redundancies were falling in public practice , and some demand for specialist skills and pro-active commercial skills in commerce and industry . |
| 8 | It is often called Ramsey pricing , after Frank Ramsey who first flamed this ( or , rather , a similar ) problem in 1928 . |
| 9 | This phenomenon is distinct from onomatopoeia — it is sometimes called sound symbolism : there is no question of auditory resemblance . |
| 10 | Quantum Software Systems Ltd , the 10-year-old Unix-like Kanata , Ontario firm has changed its name to mirror its software : it is now called QNX Software Systems Ltd . |
| 11 | Then , deciding boldly not to enter another beguiling-looking passage which , had he done so , would have wasted very many miles and many days ( it is now called Canal Jeronimo , and leads into an immense maze of lakes and passageways ) , he sailed directly north-west , up the Paso Largo and finally into the Paso del Mar . |
| 12 | Malaria was known to be associated with marshes : it was often called marsh fever , but the connection was not understood until certain mosquitoes were recognized as carriers of the disease and as alternative hosts of plasmodia . |
| 13 | He was successively appointed house surgeon , registrar , and resident surgical officer at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street , London , from 1922 till 1927 ( he gained his FRCS in 1922 ) and was made consultant surgeon at the same hospital in 1928 . |
| 14 | He was subsequently appointed deputy director of Directorate S , the most sinister division within the KGB . |
| 15 | Here he gained experience in locomotive building and his ability sufficiently impressed Charles F. Beyer , in charge of the locomotive department , so that in 1842 he recommended Ramsbottom as locomotive superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway , which in 1846 became part of the London and North Western , of which he was then appointed district superintendent of the north-east division . |