Example sentences of "[vb pp] be [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a battery of aptitude tests , those who were fortunate enough to be interviewed were promised a full time position in Banking with career opportunities commensurate with their ability and commitment . |
| 2 | Other honours included being made a foreign member of the Norwegian and Swedish academies and an honorary member of the Boston Society of Natural History and the Société Zoologique de France . |
| 3 | Two teenagers who were badly injured when a horse bolted are to begin a legal fight for compensation . |
| 4 | The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil |
| 5 | What they have not yet done is to form a united organisation , or political party , to press that demand . |
| 6 | And this is all we 've done is to take a medieval recipe . |
| 7 | So what Silver have done is to make the electronic box a self-contained unit , or ‘ module ’ , hence the description of the total range as ‘ modular ’ . |
| 8 | What is done is to plot the observed magnitude against time . |
| 9 | What Burley 's group has now done is to add a new protein structural motif to this list by solving the cocrystal structure of the basic/helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper ( b/HLH/Z ) domain of Max bound to DNA at 2.9 A resolution . |
| 10 | One way this is done is to project the internal situation into current real situations when they symbolise the internal situation . |
| 11 | What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t . |
| 12 | Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once … |
| 13 | What Chaplin the showman had done was to create a great screen clown , a clown whose frame of reference was to be emotion rather than politics . |
| 14 | One of the first things that needed to be done was to get a short survey of existing conditions , and with the help of all departments the following summary was made : Burma Today |
| 15 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 16 | Naturally , amongst other things that we took out into the desert with us was the long-established tea swindle , which we all subscribed to , It was considered a most heinous offence if pupil or anyone else taxied within the proximity of the tea swindle and the great volume of sand engulfed those who were engaged in making the tea — indeed , getting any sand anywhere near the brew as it was being prepared was considered a serious offence . |
| 17 | Here guests were greeted by the Chairman of the British Branch of the organisation Mr Tim Hart and Mrs Hart ; they are the proprietors of the superb Hambleton Hall on Rutland Water ; Mr and Mrs Martin Skan , owners of the Chewton Glen Hotel , in Hampshire ; and a director and the general manager of Claridge 's Mr Ronald Jones , who was delighted that Claridge 's had been elected a new member with the top award of a purple shield , denoting the splendour of a palace , with exceptional service . |
| 18 | Assuming that this meets the client 's approval , all that is now needed is to clear the finished version with the ITVA ( see page 126 ) and order and dispatch the bulk prints to the TV stations . |
| 19 | Ail that is needed is to throw an oncoming punch off course . |
| 20 | Usually , a suitable algorithm is used to convert keys to addresses ; the file is then described as a randomized file , and the algorithm used is called a randomizing algorithm . |
| 21 | A simple method of telling whether a jufti knot has been used is to compare the horizontal knot-county to the number of warps . |
| 22 | The method to be used is to copy the highlighted block to another file specially reserved for the purpose , then count the words and display the result in a simple message box . |
| 23 | All that was needed was to measure a certain number of coefficients of elasticity , viscosity , conductivity , etc . |
| 24 | To be employed is to have an ongoing contract that holds you accountable for doing work of a given type for a specified number of hours per week in exchange for payment . |
| 25 | Hope perceived this as acutely as anyone else ; he had experienced being called a black bastard , being physically abused , being spat at , being excluded . |
| 26 | Coun Davies said : ‘ The only way we can make sure these areas are protected is to have the three-mile stipulation written into the contracts . ’ |
| 27 | The obvious alternative method of determining which aspects of a stimulus are remembered is to use a modified recall paradigm and this approach is adopted in Chapter 8 . |
| 28 | GROVE United are holding an Open Charity Rinks Tournament at the Grove Park next Saturday in aid of the Masonic and the Northern Ireland Hospice . |
| 29 | Those involved were given a basic introduction to the causes of deterioration in books and to the terminology used in their description . |
| 30 | ‘ At Board meetings I can make sure that the issues which are being discussed are given a legal perspective . |