Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 They are given a company car to get from A to B , and their main work starts when they get there is n't it ?
2 Ensure they are given a contact name and phone number .
3 Members are given a discount card which entitles them to 10% of all yarn and haberdashery purchases from the shop and they also have the opportunity to sell their garments through the shop on a commission basis .
4 Parents are given a school booklet , part of which outlines the school 's policy on homework .
5 The rescue service works like this : You are given a reference number and a free phone number when you register .
6 Children at St Aloysius College are given a home work diary which their parents must sign every day .
7 In HWIM , all 71 possible labels are given a probability score .
8 Mid-length natural curls are given a wet-look effect with Redken products .
9 They can be asked to : Improvise spontaneously — in which , for example , they are given a starting point and asked to develop a scene in role .
10 argued that such inferences are stored in memory along with the information explicitly contained in the passage , with the result that when subjects are given a recognition test they will falsely identify the inference as having occurred in the passage .
11 Despite all the fine statements that young people are the future of the country , they are still a disadvantaged group and will remain so until they are made a priority policy target .
12 Over on the other side , erm you 're given a range name .
13 The lucky few who are offered a recording contract must understand what they are signing .
14 Frequently , senior executives are offered a termination package deal at the time when they are first told that it is likely or unavoidable that their job will come to an end .
15 Here guests are offered a breakfast buffet whilst the three-course dinner , with a choice of main course , is served in the Hotel Tyrol which is under the same management and stands immediately opposite .
16 ‘ The refinancing will place the necessary cash at the disposal of Norsk Data A/S , enabling it to carry out a private resolution in which its unsecured creditors are offered a cash dividend of 25% , but the banks ‘ required as a condition for financing that the present share capital shall be written down to zero , and that a share issue shall be carried out by partly converting the banks ’ debt into equity . ’
17 They discuss any problem cases with their hospital social worker each week , occupational therapists routinely make home visits before discharge , and if minor adaptations are needed a hospital technician will do them .
18 In upholstery you really do get what you pay for and you usually have to take the quality on trust since you can not see all the underpinnings of frames , filling and springs unless you are shown a sample cross section and have it all explained to you in the shop .
19 The full stop and the three letters which Word has added to your document filenames are called a filename extension .
20 Lloyd points out that it is often those who are called a labour aristocracy , who are the most militant .
21 Students accepted on to the Diploma in Social Work will be considered for payment of fees by the Department of Health and Social Services only if they are allocated a quota place by the University .
22 For us the customers , it will mean higher fares and fewer services as unprofitable and social services are cut and this is only if we are left a train service at all .
23 He was the first and only contender for the US Presidency to demand that South Africa be designated a terrorist state and treated accordingly .
24 Hizir Bey was greatly impressed by him and sent him to Murad II , recommending that he be given a teaching post .
25 But despite the differences of opinion that exist — ones that are generally between individuals rather than any factions based on club or country — there is one area of consensus that prevails : That any new laws be given a trial period of at least one year .
26 He would unquestionably have recommended that her mother be given a hospital bed , and long before this .
27 Despite her attempts to have him killed , husband George Taylor pleaded with the Judge that his wife be spared a jail sentence .
28 Community nurses and health visitors are paid a mileage allowance but you will also want to know who pays for what if you should break down or have an accident , and whether you can claim an allowance against income tax for general depreciation .
29 So married men are paid a tax allowance ( not unmarried , cohabiting men ) .
30 All Sovereign clients are guaranteed a window seat on our safari bus .
  Next page