Example sentences of "[coord] be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 2 | they can help to liven up a salad or be used a nutritious snack , combined with an apple or another fruit . |
| 3 | As it is , having escaped this poisoned chalice and been given a good excuse to get rid of a woefully implausible leader , it is still very much in business to fight another day . |
| 4 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 5 | She had previously won the Oloman-Ellis Award ( see page : 109 ) and been elected a Grand Councillor both for her work for the BDA in her own branch — Leeds — and region — North Regional Council — , on the national executive , As editor of a Newsletter and of hundreds of " Congress Bulletins " , and as fund-raiser extraordinary for deaf sporting activities . |
| 6 | So we do n't know much about it yet , but on Thursdays we get , we 've got taught how to play erm a keyboard and been taught a little bit about reading music . |
| 7 | Although he has agreed personal terms with Rovers manager Kenny Dalglish and been offered a lucrative four-year contract , Arsenal and Manchester United are also chasing the young star . |
| 8 | They put on new acts if they are called direct and are sent a rough demo tape . |
| 9 | These are all reasonably inexpensive in pack form , and are used a great deal in electronic projects . |
| 10 | Recommended by live letters of the Daily Mirror , comfortable family run guest house , away from the hustle of the town centre yet only twenty minutes walk to the conference centre , and two minutes walk to the seafront , situated in old worldy Kemptown , you will be welcomed by Hilda and Doug Beard , and be served a full English breakfast , tea making facilities are in all rooms also colour TV , keys are provided with access at all times , there is also free street parking . |
| 11 | The third segment might look very like a and be assigned a high score on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic features . |
| 12 | The word ‘ god ’ must , in the minds of all , be divorced for ever from all its varied historical associations and be given a new meaning . |
| 13 | Since married men were normally exempt , youths in some areas might for this reason marry as young as fourteen or fifteen and be given a small piece of land by their parents to maintain themselves : the proliferation of very small peasant holdings in Denmark has been attributed to this factor . |
| 14 | If they chose Ireland , as I believe most of them would , then the Ascendancy could once more be drawn to the heart of Irish life and be given a high-minded function . |
| 15 | They also stated that if no help was forthcoming they might later in the year repeal the international law of first asylum under which the boat people were allowed to apply for refugee status and be given a fair hearing . |
| 16 | Candidates therefore need to understand the scope of the job and be given a clear job description . |
| 17 | Winners will stay two nights in the Futuroscope Hotel and be given a three-day pass to the park . |
| 18 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 19 | After about two hours flying over the sea , they swung in over the coast and were given a welcoming burst of anti-aircraft fire . |
| 20 | These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts . |
| 21 | Swindon swept forward after the break and were given a 50th-minute penalty when Martin Ling was brought down in the area . |
| 22 | In the experiment by Norcross ( 1958 ) , briefly mentioned above , young children were shown four pictures of different faces , two boys and two girls , and were taught a different name for each . |
| 23 | ‘ It having a long neck like that and being called a long-necked turtle . |
| 24 | I am dying to that old life , to that old self and I am following in this new life , and therefore , I am going through this , this symbolic act of being baptized , of dying to the old and being raised a new life in Jesus Christ . |
| 25 | Perhaps the clearest indication of the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of Quaternary investigations is that a book written by a geographer , D.Q. Bowen , and published in 1978 is entitled Quaternary Geology and is subtitled A Stratigraphic Framework for Multidisciplinary Work . |
| 26 | If a man lies on the ball and is given a good rucking he will think twice about doing it next time . |
| 27 | Each of the solutions found for the Schrödinger equation ( quantum mechanical wave equation ) for a one-electron atom can be regarded as relating to one of a set of orbitals , which is characterized by a unique combination of quantum numbers and is given a corresponding symbol , such as 1s , 2p , etc . |
| 28 | Going through this book the reader is put firmly into the cockpit of this awesome aircraft and is given a fascinating insight into an SR-71 sortie . |
| 29 | The chef that evening , Nigel Alexander , originally from Stockton , has returned to the north after four years as a chef in London and is given a free rein with the menu . |
| 30 | The House , at Lytham St Annes , provides convalescence for 23 guests , and is situated a short walk from the sea and promenade . |