Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Worst of all we are given no true insights into the man or the legend which saw the production of more than 75 films and made a poor boy from Lambeth the most famous and feted individual in the world .
2 The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like .
3 On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence .
4 At the same time , in a society based , in theory at least , on ideas of social mobility and achievement , education is also a means whereby individual children are given the intellectual resources to travel upwards in class terms and outwards in environmental terms .
5 The parent is captured and its offspring are given the same marks ; one nick on each side of the upper beak for the Vintners ; one on one side for the Dyers ; none at all for the Royal cygnets .
6 posts are erected every hundred metres , right ?
7 What ‘ disputes and speculations , which are esteemed no mean parts of learning , are rejected as useless ’ by the adoption of correct principles of knowledge ?
8 Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days .
9 In this case heterostracans are considered the closest relatives of gnathostome ; this is based on the speculation that heterostracans had paired nasal sacs and paired nostrils as seen in jawed vertebrates .
10 November to March are considered the best months .
11 If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back .
12 In a moment are seen the paradisiac regions , as if the curtains of the moments have parted to show the gardens of reality that remain hidden to everyday sight .
13 Put a lid on the saucepan and cook slowly for about one hour , stirring occasionally and making sure the chicken joints are turned every fifteen minutes or so .
14 Images such as these , which are collected every 30 minutes , are routinely used in weather forecasting and in atmospheric modelling .
15 They 're considered the best talkers , and fetch high prices as pets .
16 They 're considered the best talkers , and fetch high prices as pets .
17 and you 've got to develop the relationships so it does n't become ridiculous and you deserve , you 're disturbed every ten minutes every night of the week .
18 ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’
19 On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September .
20 Because they 're held every two weeks here , whereas the rest of the companies are every week .
21 My own plans are still totally up in the air , except that I am sure to resume my work when the new season gets underway — and then I am just going to make music wherever I am offered the best conditions for it .
22 Shareholders are offered a one-for-three rights issue at 110p to raise £152million , but Corporate Partners will take up any shares not subscribed to .
23 The bidder 's shareholders are offered the new shares pro rata to their existing shareholdings in the bidder , known as an " open offer " .
24 Do n't look here for anything rousingly political — instead we are offered the everyday concerns of township life from ‘ shared beer ’ to a sister 's wedding , marital arguments to ‘ the importance of proper education ’ .
25 Core electrons are not normally involved in the bonding of the molecule , and so when they are ejected the resulting ions are usually formed in their vibrational ground states .
26 A group of influential architects from Sweden are shown the latest developments in the Design Studio by Chief Designer Ronnie Wilkie ( far left ) together with Directors and Executives from Stoddard Mattor .
27 K 1 and K 2 are called the principal curvatures of the surface at O. Their product is an invariant for the surface at O called the Gaussian curvature K ; thus
28 The forms are termed the deviatoric parts of the respective tensors , while are called the dilatational parts .
29 Interest has centred on the role of two small groups of cells , one on either side of the brain , that are called the suprachiasmatic nuclei ( SCN ) .
30 Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft .
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