Example sentences of "[vb base] to be [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's sort of , you know , we want to be favoured because we want all the reward , we want to be given a sweet , we want |
| 2 | Let's suppose you want to be offered a challenging new job . |
| 3 | Sometimes better ( > ) for passive motion ; they want to be carried the whole time but even then they may not be quietened for long and will demand to be carried by someone else . |
| 4 | This is war and those who are fighting it deserve to be given every possible weapon . |
| 5 | Many women deserve to be raped a Tory M P's wife said yesterday . |
| 6 | First of all the headline says , Women deserve rape says M P's wife , and then the front page exclusive , Many women deserve to be raped a Tory M P's wife said yesterday . |
| 7 | We wait to be given the bad news . |
| 8 | And they like to be taught a new board game |
| 9 | In feminist research on poverty and resources within households ; respondents again tend to be given no ethnic identity . |
| 10 | One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing . |
| 11 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 12 | Prepare to be led a merry dance — perhaps emotionally , perhaps materially — and prepare also to deal with a series of tough situations . |
| 13 | ‘ Some three and four year olds ' teeth are so bad they have to be given a general anaesthetic to have six or more teeth pulled out . |
| 14 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |
| 15 | Against these considerations , there have to be weighed the practical and constitutional matters urged by the Attorney-General many of which have been relied on in the past in the courts in upholding the exclusionary rule . |