Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They also detest being called the handicapped . |
2 | And backs away , with what I believe is called a shiteating grin . |
3 | Even those they later reject are found a loving home with a member of the Force . |
4 | I head south after what I think 's called a hearty breakfast and an even heartier cough . |
5 | Even those that survive are given a severe check and often produce poor growth . |
6 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
7 | they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males . |
8 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
9 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
10 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
11 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
12 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
13 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
14 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
17 | 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 |
18 | ‘ I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic . |
19 | But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’ |
20 | You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present . |
21 | Immediately contracts have been exchanged the exact redemption figure should be obtained from the mortgagee . |
22 | To test this hypothesis , six methanogenic subjects have been fed a low sulphate diet for 34 days supplemented with sodium sulphate from day 11 to 20 . |
23 | I would wish to express my very great anguish to all those women concerned if I have been taught an inadequate technique , ’ she said . |
24 | The three Masses and the Gradualia have been championed a great deal in recent years , sometimes meshed with one another in the ‘ liturgical reconstruction ’ manner , although there are reasons for believing that Byrd did not have that in mind . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Not only am I forced to share bed and board with a woman for whom I feel nothing but disgust , but for my pains I have been branded a disreputable opportunist by all and sundry . |
27 | The walls have been painted a deep coral pink with mouldings picked out in white . |
28 | The front door opens directly into a large living-come-dining room where the walls have been painted a natural oatmeal colour and the carpet is a plain beige . |
29 | The 1990s have been declared the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction . |
30 | Right across Britain they have been given a new lease of life . |