Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) All children and young persons Local authorities are given a power but not a duty to provide accommodation to a wider group of children and young persons on welfare grounds . |
| 2 | Additionally there is a general entitlement to a ‘ Disturbance Payment ’ for persons who are not entitled to compensation , and local authorities are given a duty ‘ to secure the provision of suitable alternative accommodation where this is not otherwise available on reasonable terms , for any person displaced from residential accommodation ’ by acquisition . |
| 3 | Gaining access to the castle , the knights are given a tour . |
| 4 | The musicians are paid a pittance , eat out on the street at night and pay for floor space to sleep in a garage until they are turned out at dawn . |
| 5 | ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’ |
| 6 | This is revealed most tellingly when informants are given a passage that appears incoherent . |
| 7 | The songs are allowed a life of their own and , dodgy PA permitting , it works splendidly . |
| 8 | Drivers are flashed a warning if their vehicles break an infra-red beam projected across the road . |
| 9 | At this point , any function words are assigned a score equal to the maximum overlap score multiplied by a constant ( they were not overlapped by the program and therefore have a score of zero so far ) . |
| 10 | If subjects are given a list of words , words with serial positions early in the list are more likely to be recalled than those further towards the middle of the list . |
| 11 | argued that such inferences are stored in memory along with the information explicitly contained in the passage , with the result that when subjects are given a recognition test they will falsely identify the inference as having occurred in the passage . |
| 12 | Which is why the clients are sold a plan inappropriately and they cash it in , they get very little back . |
| 13 | All Sovereign clients are guaranteed a window seat on our safari bus . |
| 14 | All Sovereign clients are guaranteed a window seat on our safari bus . |
| 15 | Under a draft direction from the Scottish Office , SWDs will have a duty to ensure clients are offered a place of their choice . |
| 16 | EC insists that carrots are classified a fruit to enable the Portuguese to continue using carrots to make their jam . |
| 17 | In HWIM , all 71 possible labels are given a probability score . |
| 18 | They discuss any problem cases with their hospital social worker each week , occupational therapists routinely make home visits before discharge , and if minor adaptations are needed a hospital technician will do them . |
| 19 | And I say that because as Mr touched on in his introduction , the West Yorkshire districts are set a methodology for the definition of their housing requirement , buy R P G two . |
| 20 | At the moment half a dozen vacant posts are filled a year . |
| 21 | Parents are given a school booklet , part of which outlines the school 's policy on homework . |
| 22 | Dissatisfied parents are given a right of appeal to a specially constituted appeal committee and from there to the sheriff . |
| 23 | Community nurses and health visitors are paid a mileage allowance but you will also want to know who pays for what if you should break down or have an accident , and whether you can claim an allowance against income tax for general depreciation . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's why I thought it was better for John to go to Barnsley where youngsters are given a chance . |
| 25 | Mid-length natural curls are given a wet-look effect with Redken products . |
| 26 | At last there 's hope for the many hundreds of children whose lives are made a misery by birthmarks . |
| 27 | Here guests are offered a breakfast buffet whilst the three-course dinner , with a choice of main course , is served in the Hotel Tyrol which is under the same management and stands immediately opposite . |
| 28 | There is also a roof terrace , and guests are offered a 20% green fee reduction at a nearby 18 hole course . |
| 29 | Breakfast is a buffet , and guests are offered a choice of main course at dinner . |
| 30 | Subordinate classes are granted a degree of power to make meanings , to negotiate meanings and even to reject meanings . |