Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 4 | In other time management systems this sort of thing would be called a key results area , erm , you know , it , it 's that kind of thing . |
| 5 | He reminded us of our debt to those whose labour supported our studies and I recalled this many years later when , passing through Harvard , I read the inscription commemorating the foundation of its college in order that future generations might be spared an unlettered clergy . |
| 6 | As soon as the results of the General Election were known a special governors meeting was called for April 29 to resume the opt-out debate . |
| 7 | She signs a contract , is given a generous clothes and household goods allowance . |
| 8 | He was given an immediate Critics ' Award and a seat at the back . |
| 9 | In 1988 , he was awarded an honorary masters degree at Guangsi Province University and has lectured on European art to post-graduate students there . |