Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seems pretty strong minded , so Im pretty sure he s got definate ideas of how hed like a team to play etc . |
| 2 | Jones is probably the best choice … ok so he s had disciplinary problems recently — this is no time to start making petty examples of players . |
| 3 | Local Government minister Michael Portillo is n't expected to comment on Gloucestershire 's problems until he 's heard similar demands for help from twenty five other councils . |
| 4 | Contextually , the notional component of the verb is assigned thematic status if it has already been mentioned . |
| 5 | The justification can imply an awareness of how the meaning of attitudinal positions depends upon the wider context of controversy , and can not just be understood in terms of the individual 's uttered attitudinal statements . |
| 6 | Later Phillips said : ‘ I hope he 's back , but this is the first time he 's received official notification of being sacked . |
| 7 | Our spies report that guests wearing Levi 's received free parasols for their jugs of cider . |
| 8 | Ahead of the desert water bag slung on the turret side the brigade 's painted red jerboa sign can be made out . |
| 9 | The carriage is painted dark lake ( the Queen 's colour ) relieved with scarlet and gold ; the upper quarterings having a broad border of French white round the plate glass windows in either panel . |
| 10 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of the Congress seats were filled by direct popular vote from 750 single-member constituencies organized to include roughly equal numbers of voters and another 750 constituencies designed to give representation to the majority of the Soviet Union 's recognized ethnic groups ; the remaining 750 seats were reserved for members of approved social organizations ( in future elections there will be no reserved seats ) . |
| 12 | Scandal of Rome 's hidden public collections to end |
| 13 | Cotherstone 's Hidden Gastronomic Tradition — and the Salty Secret of Mrs Birkett 's Success |
| 14 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 15 | Drama is a piece of literature that only works when it 's given threedimensional form . |
| 16 | And really , in spite of the quartet 's realised commercial capabilities , this cunning reissue proves precisely why they were ignored for so long . |
| 17 | The solution to problem ( a ) should be relatively straightforward in economies where information on changes in the cost of living is given prominent news coverage when up to date figures become available and where labour is organized under the umbrella of trades unions with sizable economic research departments . |
| 18 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 19 | It 's traditional at the Cambridge Arts and our review is given extra impetus by an equally blue send-up of the pantomime , performed for our benefit by the crew . |
| 20 | The project manager has full responsibility for the project and is given necessary resources for planning and implementation . |
| 21 | Nicholas Hammond plays student scientist Peter Parker who , after a laboratory accident is given amazing spider powers which he can summon to combat the forces of evil . |
| 22 | The term différance could be seen as a conflation of Jakobson 's distinction between the paradigmatic and the syntagmatic , but in Derrida 's argument these are inseparable and the conflation is given great importance and power . |
| 23 | Hampson is given ten-week ban after third sending off . |
| 24 | In addition , wood will deteriorate and eventually rot unless it is given regular maintenance . |
| 25 | Long-term work of an innovative nature is given low priority and has to be done between short-term assignments . |
| 26 | This is given various names , such as the nucleus or executive ; we will use the term supervisor for this basic set of main-store-resident supervisory programs . |
| 27 | This frequent contact with families is given strong emphasis by the prison authorities , who see it as one of the key elements both of encouraging prisoners to participate and in preparing them for successful reintegration . |
| 28 | When the cases of laryngeal cancer are compared with a null distribution ( provided by the distribution of much more common lung cancer ) the hypothesis is given strong support . |
| 29 | Now essentially this also relies on the children 's using their imaginations to find answers — as in the case of the ‘ sewer ’ and the ‘ Lost Valley ’ contexts — but the difference is that ( a ) each ‘ find ’ is given due weight and attention , is publicly shared , evaluated , accepted or rejected , ( b ) the focus within which their imaginations can have free range is defined from the beginning , i.e. the puzzle is clear — ‘ what could be a logical solution ? ’ is the name of the game , and ( c ) the problem-solving does not have to be hurried by action . |
| 30 | A person who is given confidential information and is unaware of its confidential nature ( and has no reason to be aware ) will be able to use the information freely . |