Example sentences of "[coord] be [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts are initially made to persuade the parents to bring up the child at home , but where this does not prove successful or is not considered a wise step , some form of full-time residential care is required . |
| 2 | All fixed date actions to which the rule does apply are now subject to automatic directions ( see Chapter 11 ) and are not given a return day at the outset . |
| 3 | ( ii ) Contents , in the case of sensation , lack such a connection , but are in a special way qualitative and are somehow assigned a bodily location . |
| 4 | The mass media of Nigeria have political backers and are therefore given a political role which emphasizes the expression of opinion and places far less importance on the reporting of facts . |
| 5 | Whereas all the other farmsteads had either lusty young sons to work the land and tend the animals to improve their living standards , or were able to afford to hire in permanent labour , the Hauxwells were supporting four elderly relatives at one stage , had no sons ( Hannah was an only child ) and were finally dealt a cruel blow when Hannah 's father became mortally ill . |
| 6 | The soon-to-be Scouts sat on high benches , and were likewise served a bitter foaming brew , the potency of which their Preomnor stomach should swiftly detoxify . |
| 7 | Other reasons given for not doing courses were varied and were only cited a small number of times . |
| 8 | Under the captaincy of McBride and the coaching skills of his Ballymena colleague Syd Millar , the Lions , with nine Irishmen in tow , won 21 of their 22 games , and were only denied a clean sweep when flanker Fergus Slattery was robbed of a try in the dying minutes of the Fourth and Final Test which ended in a 13–13 draw . |
| 9 | Bridge had joined the firm as an assistant solicitor and was later made a salaried partner with a view to and shortly before his becoming a full capital ( equity ) partner . |
| 10 | All hospital patients had been given a diagnosis of primary depression uncomplicated by any underlying condition such as alcoholism , but were also given a full clinical interview ( PSE ) by the research psychiatrist . |
| 11 | The church probably held some two hundred people but was not used a great deal in the 1920's . |