Example sentences of "have [be] singled [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginnings of this idea emerge well from a passage in The Lord of the Rings which has been singled out for especially ferocious criticism : the parting of Treebeard from Celeborn and Galadriel in The Return of the King , p. 259 : |
| 2 | This profound sense of destiny which has influenced her life gives her an intuitive awareness that she has been singled out for a special role . |
| 3 | There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance . |
| 4 | How very conceited to assume that , out of all the billions of billions of planets in the universe , our own little backwater of a world , in our own local backwater of a solar system , in our own local backwater of a galaxy , should have been singled out for life ? |
| 5 | The deaf children of the Molfetta Deaf School in Trani were proud to have been singled out for a visit by the Princess |
| 6 | ‘ I was very surprised to have been singled out for this honour . |
| 7 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 8 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 9 | The Kuwaiti government consistently denied that Palestinians had been singled out for arrest and punishment . |
| 10 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 11 | The scenes on pottery described above belong to a very small minority , but they have been singled out for their outstanding interest and significance in the study of religious practices . |
| 12 | South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame . |
| 13 | The undercover soldiers of the S-A-S have been singled out for their bravery in the Gulf War . |
| 14 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |