Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great majority are rural folk , many of whom are denied access to their most basic need and resource — land . |
| 2 | Some of them are given diplomas for doing this , so they can then prove how expert they are in disability matters . |
| 3 | The others move to different premises , where nearly all of them are given degrees three years later . |
| 4 | Test factors which are either positively related to both the other variables or negatively related to both of them are called enhancer variables . |
| 5 | Well the other letters that are not vowels all the rest of them are called consonants . |
| 6 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 7 | ‘ Van Gelder and I are trained divers , sir . |
| 8 | Subtext : I will not split the party if I am made chancellor . |
| 9 | I am made Deacon ; I escape by a hairsbreadth being made a priest . |
| 10 | I am called Burun — Burun Khan . |
| 11 | ‘ I am called Hope , ’ said the larger of the two girls , tossing back her hair . |
| 12 | One Mozambican student recently complained on a youth television programme in Leningrad : ‘ I am called SPID ( AIDS ) all over the place ’ . |
| 13 | By the philosophers I am named Mercurius , he said there , my spouse is the gold ; I am the old dragon found everywhere on the globe of the earth , father and mother , young and old , very strong and very weak … often the order of nature is peversed in me . |
| 14 | We recognise the face and words of Robert J. Oppenheimer , leader of the Manhattan Project which gave America the atomic bomb : " I remembered a few lines from the Hindu Scripture , the Bhagavad-Gita : " Now I am become death , the destroyer of worlds . " " |
| 15 | I am paid £100 a week and had no idea I was earning double what the bosses are getting . ’ |
| 16 | My officers will conduct their own enquiry , and I will not hold this district to blame unless I am shown evidence of its involvement . ’ |
| 17 | I am told £1,000 a week is not unknown among manual workers . |
| 18 | I am told Dickens partook of it at home . ’ |
| 19 | I can not , therefore , detach myself from the wickedest soul nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous . ’ |
| 20 | increase your pace , increase your pace , only joke , er , normally I 'm made Amy 's coming over this summer |
| 21 | In particular , I 'm involved June 5 — 7 in a weekend on reaching people with special needs . |
| 22 | " I 'm called Strawberry . |
| 23 | I 'm called Peter and he 's Tom . ’ |
| 24 | So I put the microchi chip in place the time machine was ready the next day I put one of them down so I typed in ancient Egypt and then I put oh and by the way I wa I 'm called Professor Plop because when I landed in ancient Egypt there was a big plop ! |
| 25 | He comes from Scotland , that 's why I 'm called Scott , but he does n't wear a kilt . |
| 26 | I 'm called Charlie . |
| 27 | I 'm called John Self . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm called Endill , Father . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm called Breeze , but I never told you that . |
| 30 | I have dark hair green eyes , I 'm called Claire and I 'm from Lichfield , Staffordshire . |