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syntaxe

 

formes verbales

 

passif

 

séquences passives

 

beauxiliaire + being + verbeau participe passé

(+ by + N)

 

valeur énonciative : emphase, alarme

 

 

Children are being used as a football’:

Hilary Cass

on her review of gender identity services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Children are being failed’:

why more English parents are home educating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A pensioner and his wife

were being questioned by detectives last night

for allegedly buying an Albanian boy

whose father had traded him

for a colour TV set.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/30/
childprotection.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teenager dies

after stabbing outside party

 

Monday 8 September 2008
The Guardian
Damien Francis

 

A teenager was stabbed to death in Sheffield

after a group of up to 40 people,

some armed with baseball bats and knives,

fought outside a 16-year-old girl's birthday party.

Emergency services were called to Rokeby Drive,

Parson Cross, just after 11pm on Saturday.

Witnesses said

they saw the victim staggering in the street

before he collapsed.

The 18-year-old, named yesterday as Dale Robertson,

was taken to hospital, where he died from his injuries,

South Yorkshire police said.

A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old

were last night being held on suspicion of murder.

Part of the street remained cordoned off

as officers searched gardens and alleyways

close to the murder scene.

The police called for witnesses.

A group of tearful youths arrived

to place flowers at the scene yesterday afternoon.

One said a fight had begun in the street

and had been between rival gangs.

"It all started after a bit of banter

and name-calling between the two gangs.

One of them walked off to go home

and then they all started fighting.

"About 40 people were involved in the fight

- some were carrying baseball bats and knives.

It lasted for about 10 minutes.

At one point two cars came screeching up the street

and you could hear them being trashed."

He added that the victim had walked away

before collapsing on the ground.

It is understood

members of one of the gangs were invited

to the party,

but that a rival group turned up without invitation.

A pensioner who called the police said:

"There was a tremendous noise

and I saw a lot of men fighting.

I didn't dare go out so I phoned the police.

The next thing I hear, someone has been stabbed."

Teenager dies after stabbing outside party,
G, 8.9.2008,
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/sep/08/
knifecrime.ukcrime

 

 

 

 

 

A 15-year-old boy who died on Monday night

in a privately run child jail

was being physically restrained

by three adult members of staff

when he lost consciousness,

the Guardian has learned.

(...) is believed to be the youngest person

in living memory to die

not by their own hand in a British penal institution.

The teenager, who had only arrived

at the Rainsbrook secure training centre,

Northamptonshire, run by Group 4, on Friday,

to start his 12-month sentence,

is believed to have been restrained

by two men and a woman in his room.

A full-scale investigation

by Northamptonshire detectives has begun

and will look at how Gareth "lost consciousness"

following "an incident" at Rainsbrook.

"It is too early to determine

whether the death is suspicious or not,

but this is a very serious matter

and we will continue to investigate it thoroughly,"

a Northamptonshire police spokeswoman said.

The three members of staff directly involved

have been moved to other duties at Rainsbrook

which do not involve daily contact

with the 76 children held there.

Last night Frances Crook,

of the Howard League for Penal Reform,

called for the suspension of the staff involved,

and demanded

that the privately run children's jail be closed

pending a full investigation

of the use of physical restraint.

"This is a unique and shocking case,"

Ms Crook said.

"There must be a full investigation

into the use of physical restraint

in all penal institutions for children,

the prisons, local authority secure units

and the private secure training centres."

It is believed that an operations manager at Rainsbrook,

who has been exonerated of previous allegations

concerning bullying and coercion of children in his care,

was not directly involved in the incident

but gave Gareth first aid

and also accompanied him to hospital.

A statement by the Youth Justice Board this week

said the exact cause of the "tragic death" was,

as yet, unclear.

The statement said: "It is reported

that (...) lost consciousness.

A duty nurse was called and attempted resuscitation

while an ambulance was called.

The ambulance arrived at 9.42pm

and he was taken to Walsgrave hospital in Coventry

where he was pronounced dead at 10.25pm."

Jailed teenager died after being restrained:
Three staff off care duties as death of boy, 15, is investigated,
GI, p.7, 23.4.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/apr/23/
prisonsandprobation.ukcrime1

 

 

 

 

 

A pensioner and his wife

were being questioned by detectives last night

for allegedly buying an Albanian boy

whose father had traded him for a colour TV set.

Pensioners 'bought' child traded for TV set:
Trafficked boy found after 3 years,
G,
30.9.2003,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/30/
childprotection.uk

 

 

 

 

 

Up to 140,000 people are thought to have been killed when an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. As many as 80,000 died when a second device exploded in the skies above Nagasaki three days later. It was the first time nuclear weapons had been used to kill people and for almost six decades since, physicists have been laboriously trying to piece together exactly what happened during and in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.

Weapons like the bomb used on Nagasaki were tested after the war, so scientists knew a fair amount about what must have happened there during the blast. But with Hiroshima things were more complex, partly because the bomb dropped there was a one-off - nothing like it was ever used again.

Now, almost 58 years to the day after the Hiroshima bomb was dropped, scientists think they have all the answers they will ever get about events that day. Using recently discovered large-scale Japanese maps from the time, sophisticated computer models and new radiation measurements taken from old lightning rods and guttering, the scientists from Japan and America have completed a painstaking reconstruction of events in Hiroshima.

This is more than mere scientific curiosity. The reconstruction is already being used to better estimate the doses of radiation received by the people who survived the attack. This information is used to set everything from their financial compensation from the Japanese government to safety limits on modern-day exposures to radiation.

In a Japanese census in 1950, some 280,000 people said they had been exposed to radiation from one of the two atomic bombs. The crucial question was: how much? Human exposure to dangerous levels of radiation is extremely rare, so the atomic bomb survivors provide the best evidence of what the effects are. By comparing the radiation doses the survivors received with the illnesses they later developed, scientists try to work out how lower exposures to radiation may trigger cancer. Every time you have an x-ray, for example, the safety data used to set your dose of radiation can be directly traced back to the events at Hiroshima. Likewise for patients receiving radiotherapy and for those people working in nuclear power stations.

The day the sky exploded:
Scientists have finally pieced together exactly
what happened when an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima,
G/G2, p. 13,
31.7.2003.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/31/
science.research

 

 

 

 

 

Young people in a child jail

are being locked in their bedrooms

in breach of Home Office rules

as a way of controlling them,

according to a government inspection report.

Inmates excluded from education are locked alone

in a bedroom

for the duration of morning or afternoon lessons

at the Medway Secure Training Centre, near Rochester.

The report demands

an immediate review of "single separation"

which the social services inspection team found

fell short of acceptable standards.

The child jail is also criticised

for failing to tackle criminal attitudes

and antisocial behaviour.

Staff are accused of using language

that could be seen as offensive to teenagers

from ethnic minority backgrounds.

It highlights "coloured" and "half-caste"

as words used to describe some young inmates.

Although the report found the staff at the centre

were less likely to resort to physical restraint

in dealing with disruptive behaviour than in the past,

single separation was being used as a means of control

more widely than acceptable

under national guidance and regulations.

The Home Office contract stated

that young people should be put in their bedrooms

only at night between the hours of 9.30pm and 7.30am

or exceptionally when necessary for their own safety,

the safety of others or the security of the centre.

The report also found that life at the centre,

which is run by Rebound ECD, a subsidiary of Group 4,

had been disrupted

by management difficulties and high staff turnover.

A social services inspectorate report in 1999

found that excessive force was used to keep order.

Wrist and neck locks were used to control offenders aged 12 to 14

and physical restraint was used by staff 150 times a month.

Young offenders locked in bedrooms,
source à préciser, 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

A credit card that tells you

"Don't spend any more, you're far too drunk"

is being developed by Tesco

for those whose thrift is addled by alcohol.

Credit card that tells you when you're drunk in charge,
GE,
p. 6, § 1,
18.1.2003.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2003/jan/18/
supermarkets.uknews

 

 

 

 

 

Thousands of children are being smuggled into Europe

from war-ravaged Somalia every year,

with Britain the most popular destination,

according to a UN report released yesterday.

Somali children in exodus to Europe,
GE, p. 9, § 1,
18.1.2003.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/18/
childprotection.immigration

 

 

 

 

 

Doctors will be put on the alert tomorrow

for new cases of TB amid fears

that outbreaks of the deadly disease

are being misdiagnosed.

Doctors put on TB alert, O, p. 7,
24.3.2002.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/
mar/24/health.politics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La passivation

peut aussi être purement linguistique,

sans référence à un état passif

- souffrir, subir -

dans l'extralinguistique

(la "réalité") :

  

 

'We want to play an old folks' home'

The Noisettes are being called Britain's best live band.

It's all about picking the right venues,

they tell Leonie Cooper

 
   'We want to play an old folks' home',

G, 16.1.2006,

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jan/16/
popandrock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voir aussi > Anglonautes >

Grammaire anglaise explicative - niveau avancé

 

passif

 

 

 

information à confirmer /

équivalents anglais du conditionnel

 

 

 

syntaxe >

séquences auxilaires / verbales :

 

active ≠ passive,

affirmative ≠ négative,

interrogative,

interro-négative,

infinitive,

impérative,

exclamative,

comparative,

elliptique,

résultative,

hypothétique

 

 

 

syntaxe > autres séquences :

 

toviseur,

ellipse,

SVO, OSV,

séquences -ing,

séquences -en,

clivée,

as...as

 

 

 

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