Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also detest being called the handicapped . |
| 2 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 3 | However , until that stage is reached , all we can do is to ensure that the animals whose flesh we devour are given the best possible lifestyle and are then despatched as quickly and painlessly as possible . |
| 4 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 5 | they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males . |
| 6 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 7 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 8 | If Leeds say it 's not something we can deal with here , this is the number you ring and they 've been told the wrong number that is a very bad impression and all the airports get calls constantly , as you know from B A days , so no matter what it 's about people will ring a local number , no matter whether it 's in two foot high capitals saying for enquiries ring this number |
| 9 | Immediately contracts have been exchanged the exact redemption figure should be obtained from the mortgagee . |
| 10 | Worth a visit , too , is the topknot quarry , a small volcanic vent of vivid hue from which have been excavated the ruddy cylinders weighing up to tens of tons . |
| 11 | The 1990s have been declared the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction . |
| 12 | To ensure confidentiality of information sources , companies have been given the following tags . |
| 13 | Staff have been given the effective reward of being valued through a positive acknowledgement of their competence providing a greater sense of identity and improving self-esteem . |
| 14 | What has tended to happen historically , with earlier attempts to provide alternatives to custody , is that instead of moving offenders currently receiving a sentence of imprisonment down-tariff , in this case to some form of punishment in the community , down-tariff offenders — those who formerly were dealt with by a fine or conditional discharge — have been given the new sentence . |
| 15 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 16 | The justification ( in addition to the desire not to increase the department 's work load ) is that local authorities are elected bodies which have been given the legal power to decide . |
| 17 | Those principles reflect our conviction that Britain has done best when the people of Britain have been given the personal incentive to succeed . |
| 18 | FOUR Hereford players were sent off yesterday in their 1-1 draw at Northampton — the first time in British history four players from one side have been given the red card . |
| 19 | CHANGES to the law on damages in Scotland have been given the Royal Assent after a campaign to help the families of workers dying from asbestos-related diseases . |
| 20 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | District nurses and health visitors who have been given the statutory power to prescribe treatments may not be given the authority to do so by their employers . |
| 22 | This second stage is carried out in public speech to which we have been given the decoding key , and from our privileged perspective the success of the hypocrite has unfortunate consequences for the dupe . |
| 23 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 24 | But it seems unlikely that it is often so , and it would be a mistake to extrapolate to other cases of mental illness which have been given the same diagnostic labels . |
| 25 | * Technical note : like last week to ensure a fair contest , all extracts have been given the same epistolary format that Bragg used in A Time To Dance . |
| 26 | Erm and those people who have been asked the specific question , Would you pay a premium price for this water as against that which you 're drinking ? said yes . |
| 27 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 28 | I , for one , have been called the dumbest person in Britain . |
| 29 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |
| 30 | What can be done about discrimination against Travellers , given that travelling people in the Glen Road have been denied the fundamental right of official halting sites which should have been provided by Belfast City Council ? |