Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All the prisoners are given temporary parole and most use it to the full . |
| 3 | Prisoners are given some choice as to which prison they go to ; what work they do ; what training or education courses they undertake . |
| 4 | Nowadays 100 million cups of Ovaltine are drunk each year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those in the last category are given least priority , though that does not mean they are never funded . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If our democracy is to retain popular support and respect , it seems vital that the 60pc of voters regularly voting for change are given some opportunity to bring their ideals and values to bear on society . |
| 9 | This agency should be funded as employers are given financial help to carry out their obligations under the legislation . |
| 10 | Within each country , paper notes and coins are made legal tender by the government and must therefore be accepted in payment for goods and services . |
| 11 | In the Netherlands , many quoted companies have widespread share ownership but the shareholders are given little power and technical barriers to takeovers are very important . |
| 12 | Vegetables are imported each week into Heathrow . |
| 13 | They each have stringent but achievable targets such as a commitment that 99 per cent of deliveries will be case-accurate — no easy matter when ten million cases are delivered each week . |
| 14 | ‘ Several thousand cases are sold each year , ’ says an Invergordon spokesman , ‘ but most of the sales are in Britain . |
| 15 | Health authorities are advised that introduction of new screening programmes requires ethical research committee consent . |
| 16 | The announcement only fuelled speculation that he is earmarked for greater things in the Shandwick organisation , of which PRCS is now a part , or even that he was preparing the way for something completely different when his five-year golden handcuffs are released next year . |
| 17 | DAN MCSWEENEY and Nicholas Pentreath are appointed Dry Cargo Shipbrokers with Anderson Hughes . |
| 18 | How many entries on the police national computer are deleted each week ? |
| 19 | If you want to use a different yarn and , especially for readers overseas who may not be able to buy the originals , the yarns are shown actual size so that you can compare your substitute yarn with the original . |
| 20 | Small schemes were created in the 1970s as a result of an Inland Revenue concession but once these government proposals are enacted that concession will become history . |
| 21 | About how many extra houses are needed each year for this natural increase of people , assuming 3 people per house ? |
| 22 | Tens of millions of reprint requests are mailed each year , the authors having identified the existence of the papers from secondary sources . |
| 23 | D and p are scaled atomic population differences ( P22 — P11 ) and polarisation ( P21 ) respectively : scaling is such that in the small signal limit D = 1 , p = x " and then , for consistency in ( 7.3a ) , 2C = — 1 : this last condition thus defines the laser threshold ; for 2C 1 , the only solution of the laser equations is the trivial one x = p = 0 , D = 1 , which is stable . |
| 24 | THE auction of LFA sheep quota by Lawrie & Symington at Lanark last week has confirmed most expectations of market prices but Ministry of Agriculture specialists have given warning that farmers are gambling if they trade before the transfer rules are confirmed some time next month . |
| 25 | He 's not as All the programmes are changed this morning , the youngsters being off school and so instead of the news it 's all these youngster 's programmes . |
| 26 | Secured creditors are given some protection : no proposal or modification that affects their rights to enforce security can be approved unless they concur . |
| 27 | Certainly , as far as the marketer is concerned , the build-up of consistent and long-term customer loyalty towards a particular brand ( brand loyalty ) may have the ( desirable ) effect of speeding the individual through the decision process sequence , and minimizing the degree to which alternative brands or products are given serious consideration . |
| 28 | The RSPCA is also concerned that the birds are allowed enough freedom to behave naturally … that 's natural apparently . |
| 29 | Hundreds of birds are trapped each winter in the Berkeley New Decoy and then ringed to monitor where they migrate to and how long they live . |
| 30 | Below : A dying practice — as harvest gets under way growers are reminded that straw-burning now has the force of the law against it . |