Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the same day , however , it passed a highly controversial law by which all residents of Lithuania would be given certificates of citizenship provided they signed a pledge to uphold Lithuania 's independence constitution . |
| 2 | Several swimmers had to be given gulps of oxygen at the pool-side . |
| 3 | The New Secondary Education , the pamphlet approved by Ellen Wilkinson and issued in 1947 , observed somewhat unhelpfully : ‘ The Modern School will be given parity of conditions with other types of secondary school ; parity of esteem it must earn by its own efforts . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lord Donaldson attacked the White Paper 's suggestion that it might be in the public interest to allow other professions , such as accountants , to be given rights of audience in the courts . |
| 6 | PLANS for parents to be given details of schools ' truancy rates and costs and the work destinations of leavers have been condemned by the education committee of the Church of Scotland , writes Gary Duncan . |
| 7 | Any respondent to the proposed application is likely to be given notice of hearing of any request for leave . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In November 1983 Milan Kundera wrote an essay for Le Débat , in which he argued that Russia could never really be considered part of Europe because it had for so long been dominated by Caesaropapism , where the civil emperor is also the supreme religious leader . |
| 10 | I doubt if it is possible to hold the view of Margalef ( 1968 ) that ‘ Relevant evidence does not consist of a massive accumulation of trivia ’ and reconcile it with his ‘ Ecology … is the study of systems at a level at which individuals or whole organisms may be considered elements of interaction … ’ . |
| 11 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 12 | With every notice summoning a meeting there must be included forms of proxy ( Form 8.4 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 33 ) . |
| 13 | The application of certain statutory terms might be deemed questions of fact . |
| 14 | After her launch on 5 February , the team 's new yacht , to be named Wings of Oracle , will be off to Palma to train up against her Farr 242 design sistership , Larouge . |
| 15 | If α f is the expansion coefficient of the free volume above T g , then the temperature dependence of f τ can be written Substitution of equation ( 12.17 ) in equation ( 12.16 ) gives Rearranging and dividing by α f |
| 16 | He says Lineker 's agent Jon Holmes openly canvassed for his man to be made skipper of England . |
| 17 | He said he had heard a rumour that Margaret Thatcher was going to be made Governor of Gibraltar , ‘ but I 'll believe that when it happens . ’ |
| 18 | Andrew of Moray died of wounds received during the battle , but Wallace went on to be proclaimed Guardian of Scotland , and was given the accolade of knighthood by dignitaries still claiming , like himself , to represent the absent Balliol . |
| 19 | They will be seen partaking of hospitality at college wine-and-cheese parties , at welcoming sherry receptions , at meetings of convocation and examination boards , at end-of-term wind-up parties and graduation celebrations . |
| 20 | One of the old stations , complete with platform , can still be seen east of Newhaven Road Bridge . |
| 21 | The three were closely linked and led to two important conclusions : part of the Strategic Reserve would have to be positioned East of Suez ; and there would have to be some stocking of heavy equipment and supplies , and the establishment of essential repair facilities , on the far side of the Arab air/sea barrier . |
| 22 | The renewal of one production cycle now depends upon the results of the previous one , i.e. , to start this production cycle there must be produced means of production of the correct quantity and quality with which to repeat the process . |
| 23 | Alongside the drawings will be displayed examples of metalwork and silverwork by architect/designers such as Adam and Kent , while the project is intended to be seen as part of a conceptual whole with the recently-opened ornament and twentieth-century galleries , as well as with the Lloyd Wright display . |
| 24 | for they will be called sons of God . |
| 25 | Iakov Solov'ev calculated that of the thirty-nine appointees only thirteen could be called opponents of reform , and three of those withdrew when they realized their helplessness . |
| 26 | In so doing , they inevitably rejected the idea of innate sexual difference , laying much greater emphasis on what would today be called patterns of socialisation . |
| 27 | They were to be renamed Colleges of Education ; a new degree , to be called Bachelor of Education and validated by the universities , would be introduced for their more able students ; they should be removed from the public sector and closely linked with the universities ; and some of them should become universities in their own right . |
| 28 | 1 John 3:1 says , ‘ How great is the love the Father has lavished on us , that we should be called children of God ! |
| 29 | How great is the lord the father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God ? |
| 30 | They created the atmosphere and mood , but the narrative was told by the dolls using specially created movements which could be called dances of character . |