Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRISONERS of conscience George Anyona , Edward Oyugi , Ngotho Kariuki and Augustine Kathangu were released on bail on 14 February 1992 pending their appeal which is expected to be heard later this year . |
| 2 | Linfield hope to have Raymond Campbell in their squad for the game ; the winger 's transfer from Glentoran is expected to be finalised early next week . |
| 3 | In what may be the first of several similar moves , Alpha Microsystems Inc , Santa Ana , is to acquire the assets of the hardware maintenance division of MGI Group International Inc , a Los Angeles-based Unix integrator with 294 local service contracts , adding some $1.2m to Alpha Micro 's nationwide annual service revenues ; the acquisition , whose terms were undisclosed , is expected to be completed later this month . |
| 4 | The acquisition , whose terms were undisclosed , is expected to be completed later this month . |
| 5 | The new bus is expected to be launched later this year on Intel Corp Pentium-based machines and is being developed by for the subcommittee by National Semiconductor Corp . |
| 6 | The new bus is expected to be launched later this year on Intel Corp Pentium-based machines and is being developed by the National Semiconductor Corp . |
| 7 | And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now . |
| 8 | Forest cover has been substantially reduced over the past two decades , although the local people are also reported to be becoming more aware of the need for conservation measures . |
| 9 | At the level at which most analysis is conducted in this chapter , cell sizes are sufficiently large for the results reported to be considered statistically significant . |
| 10 | The planned partial flotation of Optus Pty Ltd , Sydney , Australia — expected to raise about $100m and release at least 5% of equity in the company — has been deferred until at least late 1994 : the reason for the delay is said to be to gain more detailed information about market share splits between Optus and the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corp , says the Australian Financial Review . |
| 11 | The poll tax was introduced because rates as a property tax were seen to be becoming increasingly unfair and undefendable . |
| 12 | The duchy of Aquitaine was not just the most civilized province in France , it was also a region of great wealth — it would have needed to be to support so much fine art . |
| 13 | The girl , thought to be aged about five , had stopped breathing when she was pulled from the water on the South Bank near the old GLC build-ing steps . |
| 14 | The men are thought to be aged about 25 , 6ft tall with short fair hair . |
| 15 | Now that commercial whaling has stopped , the grey whale population is thought to be increasing steadily each year . |
| 16 | Its demarcation from those other professional analysts who cater to the mass market , has had to be made as severe as possible . |
| 17 | The business about sparklers erm it is one of those things where the very young children like to hold a sparkler but it has got to be done under proper supervised conditions . |
| 18 | In addition , two or three exploration wells are scheduled to be drilled early next year . |
| 19 | Major works by Anselm Kiefer previously thought to be in Saatchi 's possession were , it was said , changing hands for prices in excess of $1m ; Saatchi was rumoured to be selling equally major pictures from his unrivalled holdings of works by Georg Baselitz , Francesco Clemente , Julian Schnabel and others . |
| 20 | Some of his patients were found to be drinking as many as 40 cups of tea a day ! |
| 21 | That is to say , if creativity and psychosis are found to be connected then this is more likely to be revealed , not as a function of the psychotic state itself , but in more subtle ways — for example , through certain modes or forms of thinking and perception which the tendencies to psychosis and creativity might prove to have in common . |
| 22 | One unit lost over £50 , 000 when the scheme was introduced , because it was found to be doing much less teaching than had been estimated . |
| 23 | It is intended to be depreciated over 30 years using the straight-line method . |
| 24 | It is worth reminding ourselves , therefore , that Wittgenstein 's criticism of solipsism is intended to be aimed as much at the classic empiricist programme espoused by the classical foundationalist . |
| 25 | In Sumatra , the northern highlands seem to have been begun to be cleared about 17500 BP but the firmest evidence is from 6200BP , while the central regions may have begun being cleared some 7500BP but certainly by 4000BP ; both areas had major clearances by 2500BP , perhaps associated with irrigated rice culture . |