Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document complains that few people are given council housing . |
| 2 | Boats are readily available to visitors , from various mooring bays around Harray , but my favourite venue is the Merkister Hotel , at the north-east end of the loch ; a true fishing hotel , to which anglers return , year after year ; where fishermen new to Orkney are given expert advice and endless encouragement . |
| 3 | They are given advice choosing topics by their tutors , the librarian talks to them about skills they will need ( based on the nine steps approach ) " and range of information available . |
| 4 | The problem has been that the field is owned by the builders Wimpey Homes , who refuse to allow the path to be developed unless they are given planning permission to build on at least part of the field . |
| 5 | Modules of type PACKAGE are given skeleton module headers automatically by LIFESPAN , as explained in Section 3 of this manual . |
| 6 | If the Secretary of State does not believe that GP fund holding produces two-tier waiting lists , how can he explain the position in Manchester , where patients of fund holders are given eye treatment in a private wing , while patients of other GPs wait 13 months for an appointment ? |
| 7 | Zimbabwe have been given Test status . |
| 8 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 9 | The officers made much of us children : the Marine band played on deck and the captain fired off one of the guns , after we had been given cotton wool to stuff in our ears . |
| 10 | Our correspondence culminated in a letter on 14 August , stating : ’ From 22 July 1991 , family health service authorities ( FHSAs ) have been given management discretion to target funds in order to maximise value for money and service to patients . |
| 11 | PLANS for a new pavilion and recreation centre at Four Marks have been given outline permission . |
| 12 | In one of the major cup competitions they have been given home advantage against first division Coventry . |
| 13 | That cases like this whether or not favouritism was involved — occurred more frequently than one might suppose from the evidence of the biographical sources , however , is suggested once again by the kanun of 1006/1598 , in a passage immediately following the one quoted above : " Let the of those of the kasabat kadis who have been given mevleviyet status in post [ i.e. , in the place and period of their tenure ] not be accepted . " |
| 14 | Sponsored by the Russian Federation government and staffed largely by defectors from Soviet central television , it had been given air time totalling just over six hours a day on Soviet television 's second channel [ for February 1991 curbs on Radio Russia see p. 38015 ] . |
| 15 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 16 | Some have requested and been given VDU access with tailored menus , subject to appropriate training and security arrangements being made . |
| 17 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 18 | The MSc has been given research rating and priority weighting , which assists students in gaining scholarships from the E.S.R.C . |
| 19 | The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike . |
| 20 | Carol Browner , the new director of the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , has been given cabinet rank and the agency itself is to be turned into a full cabinet-level department , a move that requires legislation . |
| 21 | Child protection has therefore been given priority status , resulting in a plethora of legislation , directives , regulations and procedures , all adopted to protect the well-being of children . |
| 22 | At least seven master-plans have been produced for the site ; three have been given planning permission . |
| 23 | But there is an action group of people opposed to it who say it should never have been given planning permission . |
| 24 | WITH the demand for golf courses vastly outweighing supply , it is refreshing to note that a number of courses have been given planning permission in the Durham and North Yorkshire area . |
| 25 | ‘ We had been given flight clearance . ’ |
| 26 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 27 | After complete gall stone dissolution , most ( n=77 ) of the patients had taken no post-dissolution treatment but 16 had been given maintenance treatment with half the full dissolution doses of either chenodeyxholic acid or ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 28 | Seventy have been given refugee status and 240 have been allowed to stay for a year after which their cases will be reviewed . |
| 29 | His arrest led to the severing of diplomatic relations with Norway , where Wamwere had been given refugee status and which Kenya accused of supporting subversion in Kenya . |
| 30 | An exhibition entitled ‘ The world of Fabergé ’ has opened in the exhibition hall of the Kremlin Belfry , this having been designated Fabergé Year by Unesco , and the collection of works by this famous firm being in the Kremlin Museums . |