Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 2 | When I first began the work that I am doing now , I decided to keep an open mind about the topic ; but , as time has progressed , I have been able to record details of fact , time and place given to me by my patients which have later been checked and confirmed and found to be wholly accurate . |
| 3 | New workplaces opened for the first time on or after 1 January 1993 or those that are modified or extended or converted should comply with the Regulations immediately . |
| 4 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 5 | The war had started again , but would n't it be wonderful , Jane thought , if during those brief moments of stillness , no one had been wounded or blinded or burned . |
| 6 | Here they 're weighed and measured and checked for the early signs of malnutrition , cholera and smallpox . |
| 7 | It automatically remembers folders and files which have been opened or saved and allows easy access to them , either via pop-up menus , command keys or a wildcard file search . |
| 8 | In both classical and positivist criminology , it is the particular way their basic assumptions are interpreted and developed that establishes their political and ideological positions . |
| 9 | now if you 're a football fan you 'll have been crossing the days out on the calendar for a couple of months now … the supporters scarf will have been washed and ironed and sitting ready for weeks … and by my calculation you 've only got one hundred and sixteen hours left to the big kick off … so here 's a taster |
| 10 | It should be recognized and accepted that coping with hearing loss can be utterly exhausting . |
| 11 | Thus the letter to the shop manager should have instructed him that the goods should not be exposed or displayed or offered for sale without the label first being removed . |
| 12 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
| 13 | Therefore , to prove the offence of using against the employer as well as against the driver , the employer must be interviewed and questioned as follows : ‘ Are you ( or your firm ) the owner of motor vehicle … ? ’ 'Then ‘ was the vehicle being used on your ( or your firm 's ) business at … ( time ) … on … ( date ) … in … ( road ) … ? ’ |
| 14 | My dolls were never babies to be fed and bathed and kissed but the protagonists of enormous adventures . |
| 15 | In this case , it would be hard to find language indicating more clearly that Mr Clayton intended the land to be preserved and managed as playing fields for all time , or at least for as long as the law permitted . |
| 16 | These will then be transcribed and computered and built into a database which will contain several million words . |
| 17 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 18 | Blinds can be raised and lowered as required . |
| 19 | This neither has to be demonstrated nor theorized because meaning for semiotics is not the issue , it is the structure of signifiers that is under scrutiny . |
| 20 | The attitude to the Asian women employed is that they should be hired and fired as needed . |
| 21 | These graphics can then be enlarged or reduced and positioned anywhere on the page . |
| 22 | A high level of involvement in SEHE enables examples of innovative , good practice to be shared and disseminated and maximises the use of all resources . |
| 23 | In addition they must always be muzzled and leashed when taken out in public and owners , who must have third party insurance , have to take adequate precautions to stop dogs escaping . |
| 24 | And soon it will catch me up and I 'll be bloodsuckled and toothpluckled and stonechuckled and chewed up into tiny pieces , and then the Spittler will spit me out in a cloud of smoke and that will be the end of me ! ’ |
| 25 | a false indication that a price is expected to be increased or reduced or maintained ( whether or not for a particular period ) ; |
| 26 | He 's a man who has crushed all softness in himself , so why should his son be indulged , be allowed to cry and display his grief , be stroked and cuddled and consoled when he never was ? |
| 27 | This was in line with the general authority policy , not of compelling change or forcing patterns , programmes and methods upon schools , but on the contrary providing the means whereby the kinds of action it wanted could be supported and rewarded and developed : the carrot and not the stick . |
| 28 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |
| 29 | No person shall be appointed or re-appointed or act as a Director unless he is a solicitor or a registered foreign lawyer . |
| 30 | No person shall be appointed or re-appointed or act as a Director unless he is a solicitor or a registered foreign lawyer . |