Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a recent decision the Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed that a woman who is entitled to return to work but is made redundant while still on maternity leave , is to be regarded as automatically unfairly dismissed if the employer does not offer a suitable alternative vacancy or prove that no such vacancy exists ( see John Menzies GB Ltd v Porter [ 1992 ] 457 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 13 ) . |
| 2 | Sch 2 , para 2(2) of the EP(C)A provides that if no such offer is made the employee is to be regarded as automatically unfairly dismissed . |
| 3 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 4 | The technique of discursive metaphor allows the individual to be depicted as both passively spoken through by language and actively involved in the discursive process of identity-construction . |
| 5 | What language will allow his confession to be made and yet not heard will by itself bring absolution and so release hi , yet all the while create his novel . |
| 6 | Like the colour of the great shades in the saloon , they can not be replaced or even exactly reproduced . |
| 7 | The uncertainty may be reduced or even completely removed by obtaining relevant information . |
| 8 | He was n't a bore or a boor , he could n't be typecast or even neatly slotted within the underground , from which he always maintained an apparently effortless sense of distance . |
| 9 | It was a regrettable side-effect of such disputes that the " general public " suffered — villagers might see their homes and livelihoods destroyed , they might be hurt or occasionally even killed , but how else was their lord to be brought to reason or to arbitration except by ensuring that he could not collect his rents ? |
| 10 | Publicity materials could be increased and certainly better designed : teachers ' magazines , newsletters , circulars could be shorter , better laid out , perhaps less patronising in tone . |
| 11 | Equally , a doctor need not respect a parent 's or legal guardian 's demand that treatment be continued or altered if in his view it is pointless , and the treatment would be categorized as ethically not indicated . |
| 12 | Even if — and it is a big " if " — an unobjectionable means could be devised by which choice among candidates on party lists could be indicated and also convincingly assessed for the award of seats , the possibility of that choice could not be provided by any practicable modification of the WGMS which would at the same time ensure a high degree of proportionality and be acceptable to British electors and parties . |
| 13 | The sick child does not want to be touched or sometimes even looked at . |
| 14 | Weeds sprouting in the path can be left or very easily dealt with |
| 15 | The effort entailed and the disruption caused by screening the families of probands would not be warranted unless high risk patients could be identified and then effectively treated . |
| 16 | Thousands of boxes of parts arrive at the assembly line every week to be emptied and then simply discarded in a corner because Dagenham is not geared to what the modern motor industry calls ‘ just-in-time ’ delivery . |
| 17 | But there must be concerns at the prospect of the need to break up such a service and whether the work it is undertaking can be maintained and appropriately financially supported in smaller units . ’ |
| 18 | Potential inferences which were inconsistent with subsequent information should be rejected and therefore not remembered . |
| 19 | We must now go back to about 1920 when the whole subject could be described as pretty well bogged down . |
| 20 | The assumption that the cultural achievements of the past are actually obsolete is more likely to be implied than so explicitly stated , but it is a logical implication of a progressivist concept of knowledge . |