Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arriving at Dingle , he had expected to be given charge of a spoilt , overdressed menina who would spend the whole voyage in her cot with her maidservant running about in attendance , so he had been pleasantly surprised to find in Sara an odd mixture of childish enthusiasm and womanly grace . |
| 2 | Director Freddie Shepherd , meanwhile , has denied reports that he plans to sell his 7pc shareholding to chairman Sir John Hall and is expected to be appointed vice-chairman . |
| 3 | Joshua Nkomo , leader of ZAPU , now dissolved and merged with the ruling party , was reappointed one of three Senior Ministers in the President 's Office and was expected to be made vice-president along with Simon Muzenda under forthcoming legislation providing for the creation of two vice-presidencies with equal rank . |
| 4 | Fragrant herbs play a great part in what has come to be called aromatherapy , in which essential fragrant oils from herbs are rubbed on to the skin . |
| 5 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 6 | At any rate , this line of thought was explored in the eighteenth century , notably by David Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature ( first published in 1739 ) and has come to be termed empiricism . |
| 7 | Under Ugandan law , those charged with treason are not permitted to be granted bail for at least 480 days . |
| 8 | The system , thought to be called Support Advantage , was developed in C++ , uses a client/server architecture and CASE-based analysis . |
| 9 | Yesterday Mr Olsen said the company had been approached by CITIC about the possible purchase of a holding back in November and the talks had reached a point at which they had had to be made public . |
| 10 | We were too far out now to risk heading in : we were bound to be caught smack in the impact zone . |
| 11 | When I was sufficiently recovered to be permitted nourishment I felt the most extraordinary desire for a glass of Guinness , which I knew could be obtained without difficulty . |
| 12 | The Key Card and the green form are intended to be placed side by side and are reproduced on pages 448–451 . |
| 13 | Duvalier , the power to grant a Mareva injunction in respect of assets outside England and Wales , both before and after judgment , was declared to be established law . |
| 14 | Work is taken to be paid employment if the claimant is a man or single woman , but if she is a married or cohabiting woman then eligibility is based on her capacity to perform ‘ normal household duties ’ . |
| 15 | These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 . |
| 16 | Mr. Beloff submits that the requirement of notice to bodies , such as Winchester , was necessary to ensure that they did not breach the intervention notice , but in my view the limitation of the category of those entitled to be given notice to persons who will be prejudicially affected can only mean that it is the prejudice which brings with it the necessity to serve . |
| 17 | Section 60(2) , for example , has to be made to work in a case where the person entitled to be paid compensation is a beneficiary under a bare trust and not the person who made the deposit . |