Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zanardi , who partners Johnny Herbert , is still recovering from his huge practice shunt at Spa-Francorchamps in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix and is not expected to be given the go-ahead to race . |
| 2 | The proposals will go before councillors at a private meeting , and are then expected to be given the go-ahead at a full meeting of Strathclyde Region later in the morning . |
| 3 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 4 | Asked if he had expected to be offered the position , Mr Powell told The Art Newspaper , ‘ I felt , on the basis of our discussions , that I was a serious candidate ’ . |
| 5 | About 480 newly qualified lawyers are expected to be awarded the diploma this year . |
| 6 | But during their stay , at Moses ' instruction , they provided materials for the construction of the very complex tent which has come to be called the tabernacle . |
| 7 | Worst of all for Scottish pride , what has come to be called the Stone of Scone is no longer in its honoured place . |
| 8 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 9 | M. Forster ’ ; he would very much have preferred to be thought the author of dull , upper-class novels , like those of Maurice Baring . ) |
| 10 | Melanie Ling was nominated for an award ‘ for the outstanding commitment she has shown since being given the task of setting up and supervising a unit to handle the recently acquired Grand Metropolitan Scheme ’ . |
| 11 | In order to make sparing use of parliamentary time , the role of Parliament is restricted to being offered the opportunity to say ‘ yea ’ or ‘ nay ’ to ‘ proposals ’ emanating from a delegate . |
| 12 | They will not put up with simply being left without being told the reason for being apparently let down . |
| 13 | I had developed a fondness for Emily and the aberrations of her strong personality ; I was almost flattered to be given the name of a past friend by an eccentric of Emily Carr 's stature . |
| 14 | In short , I was tremendously flattered to be offered the job . |
| 15 | It went this conference believes , that the role of trade union councils at local level , whose value is clearly acknowledged , must be strengthened by being given the right to express a view through its democratically elected delegates at annual conference within the framework of the T U C. |
| 16 | The flies were then tested by being offered the choice of the two odours , and the proportion avoiding the shock-associated odour was compared with that avoiding the control odour . |
| 17 | On his retirement , George Healey was honoured by being made the Association 's first deaf Patron , and at the Southampton Congress shortly before his death in 1925 he was presented with an illuminated testimonial and a cheque for his pension fund . |