Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In general , institutions are organized social groups embodying social roles , relations , processes , norms and instruments or complexes of cultural patterns , norms and procedures , which satisfy some important social interest ( e.g. educational , economic , religious , etc ) .
2 The savings and loan saga provides a startling illustration of how badly matters can go wrong when institutions are cut loose from regulation without proper supervision .
3 Only those manufacturing steps that involve trade secrets are kept in-house .
4 Beginners are given intensive language teaching , leading rapidly to the reading of original texts , and are able , on successful completion of the course , to join former 1B students in the second-year class .
5 Course modules in Crop Production Systems and Crop Protection are considered essential .
6 It would , nonetheless , have saved us millions of pounds in tax relief had the building been declared listed . ’
7 Also of interest is computer use during consultations , where patient notes are made available and up-dated using a desk-top terminal .
8 Also , no explanation is offered as to how society defines criminal behaviour , why some acts are made illegal and others not .
9 Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church .
10 What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals ?
11 Course modules in Land Use/Environmental Interactions and Nutrient Cycles : Biosphere/Atmosphere Interactions are considered essential .
12 In the kind of discriminating attention it demands , grid method becomes , and reveals , a part of that articulation process described by Lind in which the very structure and texture of aesthetic objects are made intelligible .
13 All prisoners are made aware of these rights .
14 All the prisoners are given temporary parole and most use it to the full .
15 Prisoners are given some choice as to which prison they go to ; what work they do ; what training or education courses they undertake .
16 Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number .
17 No spiritual support was allowed to the isolated children , even though , as one parent bitterly commented , ‘ even prisoners are allowed this ’ .
18 Nowadays 100 million cups of Ovaltine are drunk each year .
19 What I did not realise before was that whilst new accounts are given much publicity and the rates of interest are proudly displayed , the accounts of existing investors no longer available to fresh punters are discreetly removed from such lists .
20 It is most important that the purposes of such an admission are made clear to the ward staff beforehand .
21 Vertical mergers are treated little differently from horizontal mergers by the law .
22 Those in the last category are given least priority , though that does not mean they are never funded . ’
23 To compensate , the latter category are allowed longer slices of time when they are selected to use the processor .
24 Within this secondary category are grouped all the engineering analysis activities normally performed using computers .
25 An article in the weekly Die Zeit urging a more liberal citizenship law said only about 1,000 of the 1.8 million Turks in Germany are naturalised each year under complicated rules .
26 Our distaste and disgust at the events in Germany are shared 100 per cent .
27 And such displacement and contamination are made possible by that radical interconnectedness between the two which the lower knows and the higher disavows .
28 CORE campaigner Martin Forewood said : ‘ Surely something is wrong when these levels of contamination are considered acceptable in Britain .
29 The important thing is to make sure that those people that have got those particular skills are given those roles to be able to perform that role perform use those skills .
30 Individuals who possess certain skills may also find their power diminished if those skills are made redundant by developments in new technology .
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