Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside England , apparently , there were no areas suitable to be given metropolitan district status . |
| 2 | It is advisable for children to be given inactivated polio vaccine as the live vaccine contains polio virus which may be shed for several months after being taken . |
| 3 | It is advisable for children to be given inactivated polio vaccine as the live vaccine contains the polio virus which may be shed for several months after being taken . |
| 4 | At a recent presentation in Novosibirsk , Commonwealth of Independent States regional manager , Robert Hall , said Russian customers will be given slight market discounts on top of the 20% to 40% educational discounts the company already offers . |
| 5 | We will use a new symbol ( a vertical arrow ) to indicate extra pitch height , so that we can distinguish between : yes and yes Any of the tones presented in this chapter may be given extra pitch height , but since this course is based on normal , unemotional speech , it will not be necessary to use the symbol very frequently . |
| 6 | They have to want to pass on information , have to trust that it will be taken seriously , and have to be given appropriate decision-making powers . |
| 7 | If immediate cerebral computed tomography is available it may be used before lumbar puncture , although the patient should be given broad spectrum antibiotics first . |
| 8 | Directors are to be given 1 year service agreements with ABC . |
| 9 | In Stirling this weekend , a pressure group geared to advancing the case for more women to be given key party posts will be set up . |
| 10 | I have noted your suggestion that the countryside which surrounds Queensferry should be given Green Belt status . |
| 11 | So lower ability children in British schools may be given less language training . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the Broads were due to be given National Park status in April 1989 , and it seemed appropriate to mark the occasion with a modern study , albeit a subjective one . |
| 13 | THE first batch of cards supporting the campaign for Meirionnydd to be given unitary authority status has been sent to Welsh Secretary John Redwood . |
| 14 | The downside , as far as concerns book publishing in general , is that the lower-grade extended-caption tie-ins hog the limelight and drive out ‘ real ’ books which might otherwise be given more shelf space , and which would almost certainly be of far greater merit in themselves . |
| 15 | A number of female applicants have already applied for service , and they will be given special weapon training and share in other duties along with male members of the Irish Army Reserve . |
| 16 | An application has been made to the Charity Commissioners for the Bradford Atea Project to be given registered charity status and the association has set itself a target of raising £20,000 during the next 12 months . |
| 17 | Therefore , it can be hypothesised that DNA aneuploidy might be an indicator for response to preoperative radio or chemotherapy . |
| 18 | Specified users must be LIFESPAN users and must also be registered relational database users . |
| 19 | This may be particularly important in service industries where there may be limited net asset backing . |
| 20 | When the Scottish Natural Heritage Agency is born next year from the amalgamation of the Countryside Commission for Scotland ( CCS ) and the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland ( NCCS ) , areas currently designated as NSAs will be re-designated Natural Heritage Areas ( NHAs ) . |
| 21 | It used to be considered that simulator specifications could only be proposed when the on-line system design had been completed but there are considerable advantages in developing the simulator before the on-line system so that it becomes a dynamic mock-up of the real situation . |
| 22 | The pyramidical shape in that year reflected what must now be considered high mortality rates at all ages , and particularly among the very young . |
| 23 | REVOLTING COCKS are American deca-dance hedonists who take far too many drugs to be considered proper role models for British youth . |
| 24 | Whether lexically unrelated idioms can ever be considered exact translation equivalents , however , is debatable . ) |
| 25 | Slim Gaillard 's Civilisation begins on 22 October on BBC 2 GIVEN the renewed popular interest in bebop , it might be supposed that drummer Max Roach , who came to prominence playing it , would take a pragmatic view of two movies which helped that resurgence : the Charlie Parker film Bird and Round Midnight , loosely based on the life of the pianist Bud Powell . |
| 26 | If they would not or could not , at the request of a Government sympathetic to them and their aspirations , give sufficient support to the economic policy advocated by that Government in the general interest , it could not with confidence be supposed that trade union representatives on the boards of companies would give sufficient support to the policies of those companies . |
| 27 | Earthquake engineers may not have needed to be reminded that building design can make all the difference between life and death , but the Californian quake has increased public interest in earthquake-resistant designs . |
| 28 | It should be stressed that anorexia nervosa is an illness which is not the fault of the sufferer . |
| 29 | It would not be easy to see how a case could be made that factory employment was an especially health-destroying occupation for adult males . |
| 30 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |