Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window . |
| 32 | While those in Canada are pushed around , those on the other side of the border have been given permission by Washington to run bingo halls , the only legitimate gambling in the area . |
| 33 | The students had been given permission by Darlington council to unearth what they hoped would be important medieval remains in Clark 's Yard , Darlington . |
| 34 | For instance , the chairman of an Italian company that Morton acquired in the 1970s has been given responsibility for adhesives throughout the region . |
| 35 | After years spent under the thumb of finance ministries , an increasing number have been given independence from politicians . |
| 36 | They have never been given equality of status with the other ‘ nations ’ of Yugoslavia , and even under the benign 1974 Constitution they are conscious that they are regarded as inferiors , barely tolerated by the Slav peoples of Yugoslavia , and especially by the Serbs . |
| 37 | As indicated in UPDATE 1 , the broad subject areas which have been given priority for development during the 1988–89 session are : |
| 38 | Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work . |
| 39 | ‘ The increase in Sinn Fein 's fortunes was inevitable given that they had been given resuscitation by Mr Hume , as he always seems to do when their fortunes are low , ’ he said . |
| 40 | Subject headings lists are lists of index terms , normally arranged in alphabetical order , which have been given authority for use in an index , catalogue or database for describing subjects . |
| 41 | After trials in Moorsholm and Loftus wheely bins have been given approval by users . |
| 42 | Parish councillor and qualified stonemason Jim Wingham has been given approval by Cleveland County Council to provide a roadside welcome sign for visitors to Victorian Saltburn . |
| 43 | Has been given notice by Head that he will be returned home if he continues to refuse to co-operate . |
| 44 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 45 | Many Bristol graduates will have been taught music by Professor Ray Warren but I wonder how many have been taught mathematics by him ? |
| 46 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 47 | One focus of our work on the development of platinum complexes with improved activity against cisplatin resistant cell lines has been to target platinum to DNA by its attachment to suitable DNA — affinic carrier ligands . |
| 48 | In T. axei the eggs are arranged pole to pole longitudinally . |
| 49 | Hominids have been using fire in Africa for some 1–1.5 million years , but whether the early firing was the work of species of Australopithecus or Homo is not clear . |
| 50 | They are to lose control of polytechnics and institutes of higher education . |
| 51 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 52 | Over 100 000 receiver systems , worth nearly £400 , are gathering dust in stockrooms . |
| 53 | They are situated side by side in the square type of pod , or one above the other in the oblong pods ( usually in two columns ) . |
| 54 | Before their attack 356 ( 23% ) patients had been prescribed treatment at step 2 , 275 ( 77% ) of whom remained at step 2 or lower after the attack , and 81 ( 23% ) had their treatment stepped up according to recommended guidelines . |
| 55 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 56 | Mr Stone seems fond of the bizarre dynastic arrangements he studies , tending to deplore the rise of the Arab families who are transforming politics in Honduras ( and , for that matter , in Ecuador and Argentina and Brazil ) . |
| 57 | This is spoken at a time when the media are documenting despair amongst Cork Street galleries and recognition by major collectors such as the Saatchi family that the bottom has fallen out of the market for modern art . |
| 58 | But legal aid experts argue that low income and capital limits are denying access to justice to increasing numbers of people who can not afford to pay privately . |
| 59 | say the increase in gas-fired power stations means traditional coal ones are becoming surplus to requirements . |
| 60 | Allan Lamb , the England vice-captain presently on duty in India , has been reappointed captain of Northamptonshire for 1990 . |