Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was asked if I wished my name to be withdrawn a second time but I declined , feeling it would be wrong to have to continue to rely on the goodwill and hospitality of friends in order to continue playing . |
| 2 | She had fully expected to be dismissed the next morning , but nothing was said and she did n't ask . |
| 3 | His brother was to be given a second chance . |
| 4 | The independence of republics within existing borders would be recognized , if the republics wished it , and minorities would be given a second nationality and their own schools and legislature . |
| 5 | Now this means that the sponsor of the bill , Allan , brothers , pro proposes that the debate be closed and the bill be given a second reading . |
| 6 | She hopes soon after her penpal will be given a second chance to prove his innocence and escape the gas chamber . |
| 7 | In a clamp-down on crime , the Home Secretary has said that offenders cautioned by police should not expect to be given a second chance . |
| 8 | Payne , who three-putted the seventeenth was fortunate to be given a second chance by Gillner , who looked set to gain his first senior win when he required two par 4s at the seventeenth and eighteenth . |
| 9 | They would be given a 15-second credit at the start of each programme , 10 seconds at the end and the chance to screen their name either side of the break ! |
| 10 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 11 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 12 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 13 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
| 14 | This concept can then be designated the first ‘ unit ’ of that God . |
| 15 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
| 16 | What 's the Matter Plasma Plasma 's properties are sufficiently different from those of gases , liquids and solids for it to be considered the fourth state of matter . |
| 17 | To these should be added a third group , which are not so abundant in terms of volume , but which are equally important . |
| 18 | To these should be added a third consideration , transparency . |
| 19 | To these three names must now be added a fourth , Michael Dutton , who has produced new transfers using up-to-date technology which yield an astonishingly vivid quality of sound . |
| 20 | Network and relational database systems to which can now be added a fourth : |
| 21 | To these can be added the fourth century examples already mentioned , which clearly indicate some level of extra-mural contraction . |
| 22 | If that freelance photojournalist is wounded , but soon returns to the operational area to continue covering the story , only to be wounded a second time , then we are looking at a fairly remarkable man with a tale worth telling . |
| 23 | AUSTRALIAN David Richards is expected to be named the first full-time chief executive of the International Cricket Council in February . |
| 24 | We thus see that horn parts have to be written a fifth higher than the pitch required . |
| 25 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 26 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 27 | You do not need to send your releases to everyone who might be interested if this is likely to delay getting them into the post ; that can always be done the next morning . |
| 28 | The cost was £105 , including the organist and £3 for the box for the ashes , which , I was told , could be collected the next morning . |
| 29 | Similarly , a serious case brought before the magistrate had to be presented a second time before the justice of the peace . |
| 30 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |