Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 2 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 3 | Mr Bradford , who lived with his four brothers in Western Road , Brentwood , had been to visit a girlfriend the previous evening . |
| 4 | But on the river , when you 're getting a bite a chuck , especially on the lead and missing most of them , I 'll guarantee the hook size you 're using is too small to find a purchase in the fishes ' mouths . |
| 5 | The thief is on the look out for an easy opportunity and if you leave chemicals , feedstuffs or hand-tools in unlocked sheds or outhouses , you 're giving a criminal an open invitation . |
| 6 | With any protectionism , right , when you , when you , when you protect something that you 're doing , you 're erm , you 're introducing a distortion a distortion in the system which leads to a misallocation of resources alright . |
| 7 | and you 're packing a book the corners will come through . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're paid a retainer every month to keep me informed on developments in and around Beirut . |
| 9 | But what the Opposition call a modernised valuation system has more components than a car manufactured in the constituency of the hon. Member for Dagenham , and on top of that we are promised a revaluation every year . |
| 10 | When you are giving a dog a bath for the first time , it may be helpful to have someone else to help you . |
| 11 | ‘ Before this election , Chris Patten sent a note to departments about campaign plans and how Ministers would be given a theme every day . |
| 12 | Both reformers and opponents had expected a more striking change in the size of the electorate but in so far as it introduced a new class to political influence the Great Reform Act deserves to be considered a revolution no less and perhaps more — than do the events of 1830 in Paris . |
| 13 | ‘ This levy could be seen a s a form of compulsory insurance against the need to use money advice services , ’ the NCC said . |
| 14 | It should go without saying these days that to be suffering from something psychosomatic is not to be guilty of lack of moral fibre , but to be exhibiting a condition the cause of which is , at least in part , psychological . |
| 15 | So can you see why we 're looking at perhaps a , a , or we ought to be considering a figure a big higher than three hundred thousand . |
| 16 | If they they they would , if there was a gaffer there he would be getting a shilling a day and the labourers would be getting ninepence or something , n ninepence a day . |
| 17 | ‘ One culture should not be allowed a swamp the organisation ’ ( Handy ) . |
| 18 | They live in barracks … and are allowed a shilling a day upkeep . |
| 19 | People who are on remand are allowed a visit every day , for fifteen minutes . |
| 20 | Unions are claiming a £25 a week . |
| 21 | The number of top lady paddlers in sprint , shalom and coaching is legion and it would be invidious of me to select names although one has honoured canoeing by being awarded an MBE a few years ago and more recently one has completed almost the ultimate in canoe expeditions by paddling round the Horn . |
| 22 | We were allowed a visit every fortnight . |
| 23 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 24 | From this point you get one of the best views in the Dales : to your right , Dentdale , Whernside , the foot of Deepdale and Dent town itself ; to your left , northern Dentdale , Frostrow and the Howgills ; while below you are spread the patched and parcelled fields of the dale which , on this June day , were coloured a green the like of which I had seen before only in Ireland . |
| 25 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 26 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 27 | In early December , Marjorie , Lady Lewis opened the Lewis Wing of the Law Faculty in the Wills Memorial Building , which was refurbished using funds raised form the local law practices to commemorate professor Martin Lewis , the first Professor of Law at the University , and his son Judge Sir Ian , Lady Lewis 's late husband , who had been elected a Pro-Chancellor the University shortly before his untimely death . |
| 28 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 29 | A single state company in Usk-Ilimsk region , for example , is felling a forest the size of Switzerland . |
| 30 | They grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro , or rather what we should call a judicial separation , i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct ; but a divorce in the modern sense , which allows the parties to marry again , is not recognized by the medieval church in the case of any marriage which is originally valid . |