Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First the Killinchy Club are awarded a date in 1994 to run a World Championship 500 Motocross Grand Prix , and are then told by the Ulster Centre chairman that this is not on . |
| 2 | Each defendant and his witness are given a limited time — say fifteen minutes altogether — in the box . |
| 3 | Children at St Aloysius College are given a home work diary which their parents must sign every day . |
| 4 | The ‘ peak ’ organizations of business and labour are granted a special consultative status in return for their co-operation ( Schmitter 1979 ) Some corporatists maintain that within a capitalist economy such negotiations must be to the advantage of monopoly capital , since labour forgoes its local , workplace autonomy in favour of its corporate leadership . |
| 5 | All patients new to the practice are given a temporary folder , which is stamped with the date that the permanent notes were requested from the family health services authority . |
| 6 | What is not so widely appreciated is that even after problems of vocabulary and fluency are overcome a more fundamental differentiation remains . |
| 7 | The validity claims involved in the form of communicative action are given a ‘ quasi-transcendental ’ status because they are present in communication even if obscured by distortion : |
| 8 | An innkeeper has a lien for his charges upon the traveller 's goods brought to the inn , and , contrary to the usual rule , has by statute been given a power of sale over such goods . |
| 9 | It is not surprising then that school plays ( ‘ theatre ’ ) must in practice be given a low priority . |
| 10 | 14.9.1 Must each side be allowed a say ? |
| 11 | THE RUC were given a let-off in the eighth minute when the home side were awarded a penalty , but player manager Jim Scott 's kick was saved by keeper Matthews . |
| 12 | South-West were dealt a blow yesterday when their England flanker Andy Robinson pulled out after falling victim to the ‘ flu epidemic . |
| 13 | FLOOD-hit caravan parks on the North Wales coast were given a £175,000 fillip last night . |
| 14 | Nor , despite the arbitrary results capable of being produced by the requirement of illegality , is the law necessarily unwise in displaying this reluctance to extend liability , for if the requirement of illegality were abandoned a much greater burden would have to be placed upon the defence of justification if we were to avoid the intolerable situation that A was liable to C whenever and however he knowingly brought about a breach of a contract between B and C. |
| 15 | Those with tumour regrowth requiring laser energy of around 5000 J or more and those with a stricture that would not immediately allow passage of an endoscope were given a follow up appointment at four to six weeks for repeat laser endoscopy . |
| 16 | His face and neck were burnt a dark-scarlet colour and patches had peeled , exposing bright pink lesions underneath , but he seemed not to notice . |
| 17 | Those who exploited the potential power of the new instrument were recommended a Walter piano , which had a check . |
| 18 | RESEARCH programmes at a North Wales college were given a big cash boost last night . |
| 19 | ‘ The club were given a deadline of November 29 1991 for confirmation of the terms agreed with their agents , but the agents have recently confirmed that the club no longer wish to purchase the property . ’ |
| 20 | Each borough is allowed a squad of 10 players , two of whom must be female , and these females must be involved in every game of the round robin competition sponsored by Littlewoods/Reebok . |
| 21 | Today the black ghetto 's become a model for everybody 's experience : the city 's no longer a place of opportunity but a ‘ hell ’ to be survived . |
| 22 | Whenever a new entry is created a row is inserted in this table and whenever an entry is discarded the appropriate row is deleted and a new row inserted in the Redundant Lemma table . |
| 23 | Volatile solvent extraction is employed a great deal in the perfume industry because it produces superb fragrances which are truer to the aroma found in the living plant . |
| 24 | We say it 's wrong because football is considered a gentleman 's game . ’ |
| 25 | Airbrakes speed the deceleration , but their burbling tends to mask pre-stall buffet while the actual speed is increased a bit . |
| 26 | For a case in which a plaintiff sustained relatively trivial physical injuries , but a severe mental illness reference can be made to Brice v Brown [ 1984 ] 1 All ER 997 which also illustrates that once causation is established a tortfeasor must take his victim as he finds him . |
| 27 | Palace Pageant 's trainer Ian Balding is hoping the colt is given a chance in next week 's Brittania Handicap at Royal Ascot . |
| 28 | In juxtapositions such as large bony vine , clumsy black headstocks , dishevelled pink chrysanthemums , the associations of adjectives seem to interact , so that , for example , pink is given a tawdry overtone by its neighbour dishevelled . |
| 29 | In return , the agent is paid a commission — a percentage of the value of the sales he or she makes . |
| 30 | Each term in the search is given a " weight " which is determined by its relative frequency in the file being searched . |