Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 2 | On the same day , however , it passed a highly controversial law by which all residents of Lithuania would be given certificates of citizenship provided they signed a pledge to uphold Lithuania 's independence constitution . |
| 3 | A question might arise as to whether spectators can be given directions under sections 12 or 14 , or be guilty of offences of failing to comply with such conditions . |
| 4 | a lead authority structure — one authority would be given responsibility for water and sewerage services for its own and surrounding areas . |
| 5 | After the Tay floods , calls were made for SEPA to be given responsibility for flood prevention schemes — at present a discretionary duty of regional councils . |
| 6 | A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service . |
| 7 | Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors . |
| 8 | It is important , especially in my area , to accept that Mersey has achieved dramatic reductions in health service waiting lists , for which Sir Donald Wilson should be given credit in Mersey and Mr. Peter Hayes for the part that he has played in Macclesfield . |
| 9 | Redeployment Redeployed staff should be given consideration for vacancies occurring within any area of the Group . |
| 10 | Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme . |
| 11 | Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme . |
| 12 | Mr Will would help on Works , and Miss Hamlet and Dr Alexander would be given instruction in DOS , including the EDLIN text editor . |
| 13 | The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance . |
| 14 | Even rented accommodation has been taken up almost exclusively by incomers : company allowances and incomers ' higher salaries generally have meant that rents have increased and that incomers tend to be given preference as tenants . |
| 15 | Several swimmers had to be given gulps of oxygen at the pool-side . |
| 16 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 17 | The New Secondary Education , the pamphlet approved by Ellen Wilkinson and issued in 1947 , observed somewhat unhelpfully : ‘ The Modern School will be given parity of conditions with other types of secondary school ; parity of esteem it must earn by its own efforts . ’ |
| 18 | Debtors who showed the courts that they had made their best efforts to pay , and also showed they were not fraudulent or reckless in incurring debt could be given relief from liabilities after three years . |
| 19 | He insisted on the principle of the –subordination of characters ' — some characters were more fundamental than others and should be given pride of place in assessing degrees of relationship . |
| 20 | Lord Donaldson attacked the White Paper 's suggestion that it might be in the public interest to allow other professions , such as accountants , to be given rights of audience in the courts . |
| 21 | Scenes can also be given perspective by colour and shading . |
| 22 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 23 | PLANS for parents to be given details of schools ' truancy rates and costs and the work destinations of leavers have been condemned by the education committee of the Church of Scotland , writes Gary Duncan . |
| 24 | The allies had to be given opportunities for glory , booty , settlements and trade in conquered lands . |
| 25 | That choirs and music groups be given opportunities in church services to sing and play on their own ( 603–604 ) . |
| 26 | The term ‘ special children ’ immediately brings to mind certain groups of children : those with limited or no sight who can be provided with materials in an appropriate form — books in large print , books to be read with trained finger-tips , books to be heard ; those with hearing impairment who can fully utilize print and picture materials but who may not be given access to music ( the value of such access is demonstrated by the career of the distinguished percussionist Evelyn Glennie ) . |
| 27 | He 'll be given access to Martin , I should think . |
| 28 | Dhlakama also demanded that members of his movement be given immunity from prosecution or official harassment . |
| 29 | Any respondent to the proposed application is likely to be given notice of hearing of any request for leave . |
| 30 | 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 . |