Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | At VAG and Associated British Ports , employees are given two days ' special leave at the time of the move . |
| 2 | Strathaven-based Yuill and Dodds , which was due to have its licence suspended for seven days from midnight on Sunday , has been given 49 days ' grace to decide whether to appeal against the decision . |
| 3 | For instance , home owners are challenging local authorities ' proposed new contracts on the grounds that their terms are unfair . |
| 4 | You must have , you , you must have you keep telling me that you 're doing all these extra hours and you 're owed two weeks ' holiday |
| 5 | They were built in what has sometimes been called classical bankers ' style , more akin to London 's Waterloo or Boston South than the Beaux-Arts style . |
| 6 | However , despite the extension of ICA to working-age married women in 1986 following a successful appeal to the European Court , ICA is still received by less than one-tenth of all carers who are providing thirty-five hours ' help a week ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 2 ) . |
| 7 | These groups are called different fishes ' names , such as octopus , eel , cod , shark and salmon . |
| 8 | Police are consulting missing persons ' lists to try to identify the body of a teenage girl found in a shallow grave in the garden of a Cardiff house . |
| 9 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 10 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 11 | If the individual kept on offending , he would simply be given six months ' custodial sentence for each offence — not to run concurrently , but consecutively . |
| 12 | In any other case a date must be fixed for hearing and the parties and the guardian ad litem must be given seven days ' notice . |
| 13 | Some companies are also reported to be paying several months ' salary in advance of the election . |
| 14 | The result should be to reduce both parties ' costs of stockholding , argues Sears . |
| 15 | Answers to each part of the competition will be printed two months ' later . |
| 16 | Borrowers taking the 20 to 25 year fixed rate will be charged six months ' interest in years one to four , three months ' interest in years five to nine and one month 's interest from year ten onwards . |
| 17 | Moss says he has negotiated with the unnamed firms to ensure they wo n't be duplicating each others ' efforts . |
| 18 | Moss says he has negotiated with the unnamed firms to ensure they wo n't be duplicating each others ' efforts . |
| 19 | Its approach will be to guarantee participating companies ' anonymity so as to obtain as much information as possible , to analyse companies ' experience in implementing the code , and to investigate other methods employed in furthering corporate governance . |
| 20 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 21 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , during the recent debate on the Asylum Bill , our right hon. Friend the Home Secretary pointed out that about 30,000 people are registered as asylum seekers , without their families , and that they are allowed six months ' benefit immediately upon registering as asylum seekers ? |
| 22 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 23 | 140 out of 170 employees eventually accepted and , after being interviewed , 30 were given 12 weeks ' notice to terminate their contracts . |
| 24 | The continued need for economy was reflected by their rejection of the chaplain 's request for three dozen copies of the hymns for the Coronation Service , and the carpenter , the bricklayer and the engineer were granted two days ' extra holiday ( but were paid for one day only ) . |
| 25 | There was no evidence that fundholding was encouraging a shift from specialist to general practice care or that budgetary pressures were affecting general practitioners ' referral behaviour . |
| 26 | The Central Electoral Commission criticized television coverage of this and other Civic Forum and PAV rallies , and ordered that all other parties be given 10 minutes ' extra air time to compensate . |
| 27 | He asked that she be given six months ' grace at Althorp so she could adapt to life without him . |
| 28 | There is a statutory requirement that the offender be given seven days ' written notice setting out the conditions of eligibility for deportation , and the exceptions ; additionally the Court has indicated in a number of cases that the sentencer should invite counsel to address the court with specific reference to the question of deportation , and give reasons where a recommendation is made . |
| 29 | To the politicians the increase in the ratio means they are getting better value for money , greater efficiency — each student educated is costing fewer taxpayers ' pounds . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most important thing that QED will have done is to open other sufferers ' eyes to the realisation that they are very far from being alone . |