Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time .
2 a lead authority structure — one authority would be given responsibility for water and sewerage services for its own and surrounding areas .
3 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 .
4 A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service .
5 Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors .
6 Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme .
7 Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme .
8 Mr Will would help on Works , and Miss Hamlet and Dr Alexander would be given instruction in DOS , including the EDLIN text editor .
9 The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Scenes can also be given perspective by colour and shading .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 Dhlakama also demanded that members of his movement be given immunity from prosecution or official harassment .
16 Any respondent to the proposed application is likely to be given notice of hearing of any request for leave .
17 So much of the job is unpredictable , and a pressing problem or a spate of pollutions or complaints must be given priority over routine sampling .
18 In its post-World War II Circulars , the Department of Education stated explicitly that the children of working mothers were not to be given priority for nursery education .
19 If they made a good impression during that brief stay at the University , they would be given priority of consideration for becoming undergraduates when they were demobilised .
20 All staff who have contact with the public should be given training in customer relations .
21 prior to ratification there would always be enabling legislation , incorporating by statute those prospective treaty obligations which could not be given effect under prerogative powers , and required changes to domestic common law or statute .
22 Equally foolish in my view , to return to the central subject of this book , is the insistence by Brian Way that children should be given practice in concentration , for second-order activities are nothing if not absorbing .
23 The Key Card and the green form are intended to be placed side by side and are reproduced on pages 448–451 .
24 Minimal pairs and nearly minimal pairs should be placed side by side across the lists .
25 Below is an example from French , where separate drills of each tense ( already individually mastered ) would be placed side by side preferably in a meaningful frame and drilled across .
26 These cards could then be placed side by side in the fashion you want to practise .
27 Group 2 's justification for this was echoed unanimously : ( c ) and ( g ) were felt to be too repetitive to be placed side by side .
28 These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 .
29 The Scottish Secretary added : ‘ Children have to be taught right from wrong and to value the distinction .
30 One is a bare-bones system that would start with just solar panels and could be developed bit by bit into a laboratory for space-shuttle crews to visit .
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