Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Brazil , large landowners ( who are usually very rich anyway ) are given government subsidies to burn down trees so that cattle farms can be set up . |
| 2 | The convivial atmosphere of a ‘ house party ’ prevails , as guests are given cookery demonstrations and invited to ‘ try their hand ’ before sampling many delicious traditionally Tuscan dishes . |
| 3 | Buyers are given assembly instructions and a video to help them in the building of their car , and Mr Nearn maintains that the kits are not difficult to put together . |
| 4 | Nuclear industry employees who work in areas where exposure to radiation is possible are given film badges to monitor their exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation . |
| 5 | The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English . |
| 6 | Unemployed people are given training opportunities in the hope of helping them find work . |
| 7 | The women are given fertility drugs to stimulate their ovaries , and are paid only if the doctor retrieves eggs for his programme . |
| 8 | Nowadays they get in free and are given VIP passes ( access to all areas ) , but tonight the five mates with whom they 've driven the 150 miles from Southport have all been refused entry by the Ritzy 's management for being under 20 . |
| 9 | A bill which would allow prosecutors to appeal if defendants are given bail looks set to become law within weeks . |
| 10 | The levees of the former rivers through the Fens are now marked by raised banks , or roddons , which have been favoured settlement sites due to their comparative dryness . |
| 11 | In homogenates from coeliac disease patients who had not been treated peptide concentrations of 10–25 µg/ml failed to increase adenylate cyclase activity consistently , whereas concentrations of 50–200 µg/ml all stimulated the enzyme to the same degree ( Figure ) . |
| 12 | New students are taught foot patterns from the basic horse stance . |
| 13 | They erm they tend to perhaps have a different attitude if they 've been given company shares , because they 're handled shares er fairly regularly , and that 's a different matter , erm I mean erm are there many people here who have privatized issues ? |
| 14 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 15 | The Bologna appeal court in April 1991 quashed the convictions of Mario Tuti and Luciano Franci , who had been given life sentences in December 1986 [ see p. 34956 ] in connection with the 1974 bombing of the Italicus express [ see p. 26820 ] . |
| 16 | In June 1991 the government made an official protest to the Solomon Islands alleging that the BRA had been given government facilities in Honiara to promote its cause . |
| 17 | For over fifty years selected local bus operators have been given monopoly rights on their routes in return for which they are subject to fares control and expected to plough back any profits from good services to maintain loss-making routes . |
| 18 | Lilian Ormerod , 63 , of Stonedale Crescent , Norris Green , Liverpool , had been in Broadgreen Hospital 's cardio-thoracic centre , in which she had been given blood transfusions and other treatment for heart disease . |
| 19 | The Front , including the former sole legal party , the Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) , alleged that 500,000 people had been given voting cards even though they were not on any electoral roll . |
| 20 | The last three have also been designated Ramsar sites ( under the international Ramsar Convention on wetlands of international importance ) . |
| 21 | Once the above tasks have been completed LIFESPAN RDBI may be run . |
| 22 | Housewives and volunteer workers , to whom Freidson denies strict market value and hence the status of performing professional work , do sometimes have exchange value granted them : in courts of law household tasks have been assigned wage values and the voluntary sessions ‘ given ’ by consultant physicians and surgeons in the pre-1948 ‘ voluntary hospitals ’ had their work costed when they joined the NHS . |
| 23 | The stigma associated with obesity , and even the ill-fated treatments advocated for obesity , have been considered risk factors for eating disorders . |
| 24 | The timber had been granted export certificates in the Philippines , in an apparent contravention of the export ban . |
| 25 | The most important examples of asset-backed securities in the UK are fixed- or floating-charge debentures , first mortgage debentures , and sterling mortgage-backed floating-rate notes ; in the US , the best examples are secured lease bonds ( SLOBs ) and collateralized mortgage obligations ( CMOs ) . |
| 26 | Leading firms like ICI , Beecham , BP , Shell , Esso and British Steel are granted Government licences to discharge dangerous chemicals . |
| 27 | For those who do not wish to explore the island by bus , hire car or taxi , there are organized coach excursions arranged by both tour companies and hotels , and these visit every part of the island . |
| 28 | Yet now we 're told indie bands should n't be allowed to make dance records ( because they do n't understand it ) , that at the start these bands wee quite rightly isolated by house ( ’ Here was the nation 's party in full swing and they could n't get in ’ ) . |
| 29 | ‘ They 're called fairy lumps , I believe , ’ said Dimity . |
| 30 | and everybody seems to keep burying their head in the sa well when I say everybody I mean the Tech particularly are burying their head in the sand , they do n't seem to want to invest anything in preparing for , they 're called Youth Credits now are n't they ? |