Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mason needed an X-ray on his right hand and repairs around both eyes after being taken the full distance by Wills on Wednesday night , but his heart and ambition remain undamaged . |
| 2 | Mason needed an X-ray on his right hand and repairs around both eyes after being taken the full distance by Wills on Wednesday night , but his heart and ambition remain undamaged . |
| 3 | If you think it is the wrong amount , you have a right of appeal , within three months of being told the amount to an independent Social Security Appeal Tribunal . |
| 4 | It would be technically possible now for some Members ' offices to be given the feed . |
| 5 | Entries to be received no later than World Cup Final Day , July 8 . |
| 6 | Many of the changes of the 1986 and 1988 Acts are new enough for heads to be given the benefit of parents ' earlier trust . |
| 7 | They had to pile it deeper in one corner to make a space to spread the chillies — five lukals of fleshy scarlet pods to be dried a crackling brick-red to last throughout the year . |
| 8 | In comparison , Sweden 's system calls for all pesticides to be reviewed every five years . |
| 9 | Suzanne Calvert has been in a coma for five months since being given the drug at a party by Army deserter Sean O'Brian . |
| 10 | I actually think the time is right in the next nine months to be buying a property . |
| 11 | Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years . |
| 12 | Laboratory mice died within minutes of being fed the shellfish . |
| 13 | The island of Angistri went up in flames within minutes of being declared a wildlife refuge . |
| 14 | By a letter dated 7 March 1983 the plaintiff formally appointed the defendants as agents to sell Caliban at a price of $3.5m. or such sum as the plaintiff might agree to accept , the defendants to be paid a commission of 5 per cent . |
| 15 | This was the first year that Environment Achievement Awards have been made , so Johnson Matthey was particularly proud to have been included among the 12 initial companies to be granted the new honour . |
| 16 | BSB Datavision was one of six companies to be awarded a specialised satellite service operator ( SSSO ) licence last year . |
| 17 | The girl has been in a council children 's home and with foster parents since being made a ward of court . |
| 18 | Waiting behind a stream of cars for the railway crossing barriers to be opened the countryside might seem miles away . |
| 19 | I am not expecting my parents to be reaching the end of their life when they are fortyish but I am likely to be expecting this , although probably unconsciously , when my parents are ninetyish . |
| 20 | Dr. Johnson then completed a hat-trick of honours by being elected the first holder of Oxford 's David Phillips chair in Molecular Biophysics . |
| 21 | ‘ My sister Dorothy died from stomach cancer just eight weeks after being given a clean bill of health by a Manchester hospital . |
| 22 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 23 | Within weeks of being handed the Northern Ireland portfolio by Neil Kinnock in the summer of 1987 , McNamara was telling a radio interviewer : |
| 24 | After years of being thought a crank , he is at last being taken seriously . |
| 25 | To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run . |
| 26 | These characteristics , which bear a superficial similarity to urban areas in the southern states of the USA have encouraged such places to be labelled the ‘ Sunbelt Cities ’ of Britain . |
| 27 | Both he and the developer signed off the test record and he allowed all the modules in the package with development versions to be given a fully approved status . |
| 28 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 29 | GRANVILLE AGAIN , travelling well when falling two out in last month 's Champion Hurdle , stylishly underlined his credentials to be considered a most unlucky loser that day when taking yesterday 's Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr . |
| 30 | And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks . |