Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under its unique regime , prisoners are given the chance through therapy to come to terms with their crimes , and hopefully start a new life . |
| 2 | The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) . |
| 3 | Accepting shareholders are given the option to elect for more of one type to the extent that other accepting shareholders elect for more of the other type . |
| 4 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 5 | The same result will follow if solicitors are given the right of audience in the Crown Court , as is by no means impossible . |
| 6 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 7 | Once these sketches are completed the working space and technical file areas are saved . |
| 8 | We are confident that when the new contracts are negotiated the industry will respond to keep the lion 's share of that market throughout the 1990s and beyond . |
| 9 | These steps are called the reaction mechanism ( see chapter 9 ) . |
| 10 | When only school-leavers are considered the percentage naturally falls : of the filled vacancies , 24% of boys and 30.4% of girls , numbering together 42,000 , were in this category . |
| 11 | For this is Family Day when dads and husbands are given the chance to show what they do . |
| 12 | When pecuniary losses are added the outcome of an assessment of the plaintiff 's damage may be that it is worth , say , between £8,000 and £10,500 . |
| 13 | In these words are echoed the spirit of moral crusade and sense of justice that Nizan , in his status as a communist intellectual in the 1930s , came to associate automatically with Marxism . |
| 14 | Illness occurs when these pictures are refused the opportunity to conform with pictures of life as it actually is . |
| 15 | The quantity of water raised from the lower to the higher level will on the average equal that lowered from the higher to the lower level so that there will be practically no loss of water by lockage and as the vessels transported by the lifts are waterborne the weight of the load carried by the dock is always the same whether the vessel be loaded or not and whether the dock contains a vessel or not . |
| 16 | Users of telecottages are given the key and people can use them at any time , which means that women can come in during the evening , early in the morning or whatever . ’ |
| 17 | Where pods are used the terminal can be left in place , except when the pod needs replacing . |
| 18 | At the time these recordings are made the infant can not yet relate cause and effect , so approval and reward for good behaviour tend to produce confusion . |
| 19 | THOSE who are charged with looking after the royal stables are given the title of equerry , but this has nothing to do with equus , the Latin word for a horse . |
| 20 | But if these kinds of books are discarded the dialogue between the generations vanishes . |
| 21 | Before the guidelines were introduced the referral rate from general practitioners for examinations covered by the guidelines was 88.4/1000 registered patients ( table I ) . |
| 22 | Voluntary schools were given the choice of becoming ‘ aided ’ or ‘ controlled ’ schools and provision was made for a few ‘ special agreement ’ schools ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 23 | You do in fact remember as c Councillor has said , that when Labour took over and schools were given the chance to change their minds and withdraw at least to change y to change the decision and withdraw from immediate L M S , then half of the schools chose to delay it 's introduction . |
| 24 | Under the 1980 Social Security Act this system was maintained but local offices were given the discretion to pay in full the charges made by private and voluntary residential homes . |
| 25 | All staff in these offices were offered the opportunity to go to Bristol to work at the head office . |
| 26 | Since the last World War , soldiering , as a profession , had lost its romantic appeal , but in Vietnam the journalists were given the chance of acting out fantasies about themselves , war , love and death . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , religious organizations were given the right to set up their own schools . |
| 28 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 29 | Having established which informants were the most experienced in the SF genre , all the informants were given the passage reproduced below . |
| 30 | If these concessions were made the army would not be employed . |