Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Worst of all we are given no true insights into the man or the legend which saw the production of more than 75 films and made a poor boy from Lambeth the most famous and feted individual in the world .
2 On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence .
3 At the same time , in a society based , in theory at least , on ideas of social mobility and achievement , education is also a means whereby individual children are given the intellectual resources to travel upwards in class terms and outwards in environmental terms .
4 Worth a visit , too , is the topknot quarry , a small volcanic vent of vivid hue from which have been excavated the ruddy cylinders weighing up to tens of tons .
5 The caller also was extremely annoyed that calls relating to valuation matters were being passed to her but Media Action had been given no alternative numbers to filter these calls to .
6 If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures .
7 Daum claimed that his players had been given the new sports designer drug Clenbuterol simply to heal persistent muscle injuries .
8 For the laboratory — which analyses emissions on and off site — has been given the prestigious NAMAS [ National Measurement Accreditation Service ] stamp of approval for its quality assurance system .
9 To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags .
10 Peter Thorburn , the other new face on the All Black panel , has been given the bread-and-butter jobs , while the Mains-Kirton tandem takes the top side .
11 John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong .
12 The biggest prize in steeplechasing — The Cheltenham Gold Cup — has been given the finishing touches before the big race .
13 Nuclear power has been given an encouraging thumbs up in a recent Daily Telegraph survey which looked into what kind of country the British public wanted their children to inherit .
14 Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 .
15 In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' .
16 It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there .
17 The way it was done was that if you imagine putting one card in for psychology , two cards in for research methods , one card in for psychoanalytical approaches , three cards in for memory and so on and so forth an then they were sort of drawn out and then when a topic had been picked the other cards were removed .
18 What ‘ disputes and speculations , which are esteemed no mean parts of learning , are rejected as useless ’ by the adoption of correct principles of knowledge ?
19 Throughout the factory a new gas heating system has been installed the independent heaters doing away with the need for the central boiler house .
20 They were in a small audience chamber , and they had been excused the customary prostrations .
21 In 1910 , all the other minorities , to which had been added the Muslim Serbo-Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( annexed in 1909 ) , outnumbered Germans and Magyars combined and provided about 58 per cent of the subjects of the house of Habsburg .
22 When this has been done the common problems of analysis can be dealt with .
23 In a moment are seen the paradisiac regions , as if the curtains of the moments have parted to show the gardens of reality that remain hidden to everyday sight .
24 Though when confidential information has actually been misused the applicable remedies are damages and an account of profits .
25 ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’
26 On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September .
27 A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel .
28 A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel .
29 A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel .
30 She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’
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