Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To bolster his case for being given a second term — and to outflank the opposition Labor Party — prime minister Malcolm Fraser has announced new research initiatives in biotechnology , satellite research , industrial R&D and in the Antarctic . |
| 2 | Goalkeeper Stuart Ford is poised to join Scarborough on a one-year contract after being granted a free transfer by Rotherham United . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven yesterday joined second division promotion-chasers Port Vale on a 15-month contract after being given a free transfer . |
| 4 | GARY DRAKE , the former British junior hardcourt champion , won a £15,000 car after being nominated the best player in the finals of the Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy Tournament . |
| 5 | Workers at Smiths Industries in Gloucestershire are to take industrial action after being refused a pay rise . |
| 6 | He had died as a result of being labelled a ‘ capitalist roader ’ and ‘ revisionist ’ , although he was later posthumously rehabilitated and praised by the Party . |
| 7 | Traditional grammars give two main explanations of the use of the definite article ( the ) rather than the indefinite article ( a , an ) : the former is used before nouns referring to something unique , or before a noun which has become definite as a result of being mentioned a second time . |
| 8 | This gives Hence the effect of is to raise a subscript while the effect of contracting a tensor with is to lower a superscript . |
| 9 | In Morgan v. Palmer ( 1824 ) 2 B. & C. 729 it was held that the plaintiff was entitled to recover from the Mayor of Great Yarmouth a sum which he had been required to pay as a condition of being granted a renewal of his publican 's licence , the payment having been demanded without lawful authority . |
| 10 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 11 | At a meeting in the Rummer Tavern ( which still exists in rebuilt form a few doors from Cottle 's former bookshop ) he was persuaded by ‘ sundry Philanthropists ’ and opponents of the war to begin publication of a periodical to be called the Watchman . |
| 12 | However , there is another reason for the assailant to be christened the ‘ New Fox ’ for the 6-year-old girl ‘ told a woman detective last night how her attacker 's car was littered with empty Fox 's Glacier Mint wrappers , paper and carrier bags ’ . |
| 13 | But six days before its due to be screened the film is at the centre of a row . |
| 14 | The American public wanted this new President to be given a chance to try out his programs . |
| 15 | Therefore he restated his belief in the discipline of enforced spending caps , called for congressional authorization for the elimination of 246 federally funded spending programmes , and repeated earlier calls for the President to be given a line-item veto in order to " end the annual ritual of filling the budget with pork-barrel appropriations " . |
| 16 | On the formation of a library it was resolved " that this library in conjunction with the News Room is instituted to form one Institution to be called the Port Ellen Mechanics Institution . " |
| 17 | They concluded that the goals for the new programme were ambitious , maybe too ambitious , but that this was a programme to be taken every bit as seriously as its predecessor . |
| 18 | We called for a code of practice to be given the force of law . |
| 19 | Presumably he is taking the intention to be to charge the trust only if it is not an unduly great burden on the trustee . |
| 20 | Guy Krenzer , senior sous chef at the Ritz , has become the youngest chef to be awarded the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France ( MOF ) . |
| 21 | Mr Martin Holgate , formerly chief scientist at the environment department and now director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources based in Geneva , will summarise the possible action to be taken a role which he performed brilliantly at the recent London ozone conference . |
| 22 | Vernon Bogdaner a reader in government at the University and a Fellow of Brasenose College , says he too is in favour of P R , and wants the electorate to be given the chance to vote on the issue . |
| 23 | The protocol , which was subject to ratification by the governments of the states concerned , effectively marked a compromise between those countries which favoured the eventual opening of Antarctica to mineral exploitation ( notably the United Kingdom and the United States ) , and those which supported proposals for the continent to be declared a " world park " ( which included Australia and France ) . |
| 24 | The 50-year ban , which now needs to be ratified by the governments of the 26 " voting members " of the Treaty , was a compromise between those nations which favoured the eventual opening of the Antarctic to mineral exploitation ( notably the USA and UK ) , and those which supported proposals for the continent to be declared a " world park " ( led by Australia and France ) . |
| 25 | Above all , you need to take advantage of being given the chance to put your own point of view . |
| 26 | But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling . |
| 27 | " Private Eye " fell into this trap when it beat off an interim injunction from Robert Maxwell by promising to prove at trial that he had financed Neil Kinnock 's foreign travel in the hope of being awarded a peerage . |
| 28 | That would kind of be kept a bit quiet was it ? |
| 29 | You can see by these figures that the Food and Agriculture Division of is becoming a very large company . |
| 30 | It would have served as a substitute-gratification for their own sadism ( i.e. , ‘ I can not retaliate against my father , but I can against my younger brother ’ ) ; but also as a defence on the part of the ego ( i.e. , ‘ I am spared the anxiety of being made the object of an attack if I can instead become the attacker ’ ) ; finally , it would also have contributed a first , rudimentary focus for the superego ( i.e. , ‘ My father is not now the attacker — I am — hence I am to that extent my father ! ’ ) . |