Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WORKERS in Indonesia are denied the right to organise independent unions and those who initiate strikes are often arrested , interrogated , beaten and dismissed , according to Teten Masduki , an Indonesian labour representative . |
| 2 | Later the trade unions Turk-Is and the Genel Maden-Is challenged the version of events which referred to a sudden surge in the level of methane gas and said that human negligence was probably responsible . |
| 3 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 4 | A goal down with only two minutes to go , Juventus were awarded the spot-kick when striker Paolo Di Canio was brought down . |
| 5 | READERS with longer memories will recall that Crystal Palace were dubbed The Team Of The Eighties by some people who should have known better and promptly began the decade with a 0-0 draw against Norwich . |
| 6 | Mrs Botting is awarded the CBE for her services to the Top Salaries Review Body and to Personal Finance Broadcasting . |
| 7 | When Pooh is shown the honey , he does n't get his belief that there 's honey from Rabbit . |
| 8 | The Board interviewed five candidates ( listed below ) and unanimously agreed that while all were suitable for the post , it recommended that Miss Valerie Muirhead be offered the post , to be taken up as soon as possible , at a salary two points below the maximum of the AA main scale . |
| 9 | The C. and A. G. is given the responsibility for auditing all appropriation accounts by the 1921 Act . |
| 10 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 11 | In 1306 , after a career of service to Edward I in Wales , Scotland , France , Ponthieu and Aquitaine , Jean was given the earldom of Richmond by a king notoriously mean in his endowment of earls . |
| 12 | Rovers vice-chairman Geoff Dunford explained : ‘ Dennis was given the option to work alongside Allison , but he chose to leave . ’ |
| 13 | WITH Midnight Cowboy in the can , Dustin was given the opportunity to return to the stage in the title role of Jimmy Shine , a Broadway-bound play by his friend Murray Schisgal . |
| 14 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 15 | Edward was given the contract and threw himself into it with vigour , aided no doubt by his life-long abhorrence of the building which he was now about to replace . |
| 16 | And Ramsey was elected the Cambridge regius professor by the votes of five men out of seven . |
| 17 | Ramsey was made the chairman of the commission on this theme . |
| 18 | This scheme , for which N. F. Ramsey was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1989 , enables the maximum resolution to be extracted without the need for a long and highly uniform interaction region . |
| 19 | A week after Miss Halford was re-suspended the police authority announced that it was bringing further disciplinary charges against her , following allegations that she made abusive late-night telephone calls to Mr Sharples , another senior officer and two members of the authority . |
| 20 | The circus built by Maxentius was called the Circus of Romulus and was 1620 feet long and 245 feet wide . |
| 21 | However Crete was invaded the day before the arrival of 800X at Malta , where they were now to remain , attached to 830 Squadron , and were to play the role of night intruders , attacking airfields in Sicily with 20 lb. bombs . |
| 22 | Steers was granted the freedom of the borough of Liverpool in 1713 and established a flourishing anchor smithy near the dock . |
| 23 | There must be many songs , many dances and many festivals before women like Mrs Kizza are given the space and time to live full human lives . |
| 24 | If Lithuania are delayed the match could be ruled as a void fixture and that 's something the FAI do n't dare even think about . |
| 25 | Mercifully , Islington was not the disease-trap that nearby Shoreditch was , and the Titfords were spared the fate of many of their fellow citizens . |
| 26 | But with five minutes left , Chester were gifted the equaliser . |
| 27 | However , over the next ten years or so , the other predictions of the theory at lower energies agreed so well with experiment that , in 1979 , Salam and Weinberg were awarded the Nobel prize for physics , together with Sheldon Glashow , also at Harvard , who had suggested similar unified theories of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces . |
| 28 | Under the floor of the pillar crypts in the West Wing at Knossos were deposited the ashes of animal sacrifices : the pillars above were incised repeatedly with the sacred double-axe symbol . |
| 29 | Larousse Gastronomique is considered the bible for chefs but now Larousse has produced a new , practical cookbook that offers lots of inspiration and advice for the enthusiastic amateur cook . |
| 30 | In 1871 Charrington 's bought the Abbey brewery in Burton-on-Trent to brew Burton pale ales for itself . |