Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [be] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broadcasting of discussions and debates between politicians of widely different positions takes place regularly and , when interviewed , critics of the Federal Government appear to be given the same kind of deferential treatment as Federal spokesmen . |
| 2 | The Moslems expect to be told the same any time . |
| 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 | We wait to be given the bad news . |
| 5 | New tenants , particularly from non-conforming households such as single parents , tend to be given the poorer standard housing and are expected to prove their ability to look after and improve their home before being transferred to a better property . |
| 6 | There remain to be considered the three species for which there is an apparent excess of isolated teeth . |
| 7 | Why then , it will be asked , do ‘ visible extension and figures come to be called the same name with tangible extension and figures , if they are not of the same kind with them ’ ? |
| 8 | If the right hemisphere is merely slower than the left on this task , then the more matches that have to be made the greater the relative right hemispheric disadvantage should be . |
| 9 | I have not always found it easy to counter my wife 's complaints that frozen peas have to be eaten the same day . |
| 10 | 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 . |