Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
2 | A ranked output IR system such as Okapi can also use several other kinds of knowledge about words to modify the way in which weights are assigned to them in an individual search . |
3 | Your specific tasks within that given work are assigned to you by a person called your manager ( or boss or supervisor ) , who ought to be held accountable for the work you do . |
4 | Directors are treated as being in a position analogous to that of trustees , so powers conferred upon them are given to them in a fiduciary capacity . |
5 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
6 | When the dust-laden wind meets an obstacle , the dust particles rarely strike the obstacle as they are diverted round it in the general air flow and so exert little or no erosive effect . |
7 | Propped up in bed to ease her breathing , her nightcap pulled down over her ears , Aunt Sarah seemed to have shrunk inside the shawls which had been heaped upon her against the chill of the room . |
8 | Such interests are slowly diffusing to other feminist psychologists , who have previously been distanced from them by the constraints of the mainstream discipline . |
9 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
10 | I do not know whether the rules and procedures governing magistrates ' decisions on poll tax cases have been communicated to them in a proper training package . |
11 | Different qualities and complexes of qualities are registered by me in a temporally extended sequence ; none the less , they are all part of the wider experience of looking at this same bunch of flowers which I assume to exist " out there " . |
12 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
13 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
14 | And because this technique will have been explained to him during the early part of the consultation , he will find it quite simple to do . |
15 | That has to have been explained to you on the phone . |
16 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens ' Place , London EC3A 6DF . |
17 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens Place , London EC3A 6DF . |
18 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens Place , London EC3A 6DF . |
19 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens Place , London EC3A 6DF . |
20 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens Place , London EC3A 6DF . |
21 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens Place , London EC3A 6DF . |
22 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens Place , London EC3A 6DF . |
23 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens Place , London EC3A 6DF . |
24 | It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together . |
25 | He claimed he had not signed the document properly because , it having been given to him by a ‘ gentleman ’ , he was too nervous to do so . |
26 | Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix implied the document had been given to him by a friend . |
27 | It was here that items of the Emperor 's clothing and the superb diamond necklace which had been given to him by the Princess Borghese [ his sister , Pauline ] as well as the Landau which had escaped the Moscow disaster in 1813 ( sic ) were taken . ’ |
28 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
29 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
30 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |