Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a differential drill they are placed side by side and drilled across to highlight the difference between them . |
| 2 | Because of the way that the two animals stand in relation to one another while grooming is going on , it is these vertical lines that are placed slap in front of their ‘ nearside ’ eyes . |
| 3 | Applicants with appropriate previous study and/or experience are given exemption from part of the Course and students wishing to transfer from another institution are welcomed , subject to numbers . |
| 4 | Au these possibilities are recognized in EC competition policy , and are given exemption from Article 85 so long as certain safeguards are in place . |
| 5 | Rangers are given scent of success |
| 6 | where corporate information is revealed legitimately to an underwriter , accountant , lawyer , or consultant working for the corporation , these outsiders may become fiduciaries of the shareholders … [ they do not actively solicit or acquire inside information ] but rather they have entered into a special confidential relationship in the conduct of the business of the enterprise and are given access to information solely for corporate purposes . |
| 7 | Of a bewildered dervish , are taught distrust in prayer . |
| 8 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 9 | A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window . |
| 10 | They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs . |
| 11 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
| 12 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
| 13 | Subject headings lists are lists of index terms , normally arranged in alphabetical order , which have been given authority for use in an index , catalogue or database for describing subjects . |
| 14 | Has been given notice by Head that he will be returned home if he continues to refuse to co-operate . |
| 15 | In T. axei the eggs are arranged pole to pole longitudinally . |
| 16 | They are situated side by side in the square type of pod , or one above the other in the oblong pods ( usually in two columns ) . |
| 17 | Before their attack 356 ( 23% ) patients had been prescribed treatment at step 2 , 275 ( 77% ) of whom remained at step 2 or lower after the attack , and 81 ( 23% ) had their treatment stepped up according to recommended guidelines . |
| 18 | Whenever possible , rooms are let floor by floor upwards , grouped together . |
| 19 | Why Mr Jones did n't book him for what could have been deemed incitement in front of Newcastle 's followers will remain a mystery along with his dropball doodle-bug . |
| 20 | Well how do you feel I mean a lot of a lot if not all of your work here has been done face to face . |
| 21 | EVERY Christmas , Denmans Electrical , a Midlands-based firm with several branches , has a charity fund raising day and the staff 's efforts are matched pound for pound by the company . |
| 22 | The former is the voice of sound , sensible England , the latter is Spenser who had been granted land in county Cork in 1588 . |
| 23 | Leon Trotsky himself arrived in Mexico in early January 1937 , having been granted asylum by president Cárdenas . |
| 24 | Following them was Kim Philby , who escaped to Moscow just ahead of MI5 in 1962 , and Anthony Blunt , who finally confessed in 1964 to being a long-time and important Russian spy only after having been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 25 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 26 | Her immediate subordinate , James C. Smith , had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 27 | Secondly , under the new Act , tenants in council property are granted security of tenure , whereas previously they did not have this protection . |
| 28 | The church would be regarded as a charity , and whereas charities are granted exemption from income tax and CGT under the provisions of s 505 Taxes Act 1988 , it does not extend to any profits the charity earns as a result of its undertaking any activities that may be considered ‘ an adventure in the nature of a trade ’ . |
| 29 | The tendency is to ignore value distinctions and to undermine qualitative difference so that popular and high art genres are presented side by side in a unified space or text . |
| 30 | On the one side , US aid has been made conditional on action against the drug trade . |