Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [pron] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the outstanding differences have not been resolved and we still have no date for talks . ’ |
| 2 | The designer who today shows so little emotion was devastated and he still keeps a mural of revered fashion figures ( Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood are two of his heroines ) with Galeotti at the centre situated behind the enormous , clutter-free desk that 's one more powerful statement . |
| 3 | None of them won but they still considered the day a victory . |
| 4 | In doing this I have further controlled the quality of attention to be expected but it still protects the participants because the centre of their attention is away from themselves . |
| 5 | However , unknown to Lee , under his ball were bramble runners , so that when he came down to it , his hand got turned and he only moved the ball a few inches . |
| 6 | A good friend of mine had joined and I really liked the uniform . |
| 7 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 8 | The edge of the dorsal fin is not tapered and they often exhibit a dark band running along the flank from the eye to the caudal fin . |
| 9 | They may have some specific items that are to be bought but they also have a general readiness to look around and be tempted by what they might see . |
| 10 | A great deal of the stepping seems to have been improvised but it also contained the remnants of old dances . |
| 11 | I noticed that amongst our user list we count , an organization called and we also count an organization called . |
| 12 | Such ‘ feminising ’ factors have been foiled by two other inventions , that of separate sexes ( many animals and some plants have abandoned hermaphroditism , perhaps because half the hermaphrodites were feminised and it therefore paid the remainder to turn into pure males ) and genetic sex determination . |
| 13 | Such an approach assumes that the disease is attributable to a particular virus or bacteria which can be clearly demonstrated and which hence constitutes the essential cause of the disease . |
| 14 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 15 | His hair was tousled and he still looked a little sleepy , but he was fully dressed , which made her feel at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 16 | The net is thus supported and I then push the sideways slackness of the net in either direction from me with a movement of either hand . |
| 17 | A deadline was set up but it has come and gone and we no have no alternative but to reclaim the shares and place them back on the market . |
| 18 | There is also a third form of competition , one which comes neither from the academy , nor from the laity , one by which we are all influenced but which rarely receives the attention it deserves : novelists , journalists , film-makers and dramatists are , at least in part , also professional students of the social world . |
| 19 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 20 | And that 's where the men worked and they just made the barrels in there . |
| 21 | He wanted to stay straight , but that small glass vial was always being pressed into his hand , it seemed bottomless , the hours passed and they never reached the end . |
| 22 | Birds nested in the eighteenth-century ballroom but the chapel was carefully maintained and she also retained a butler and a chauffeur for the Rolls-Royce . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was the wine I had drunk but I only gave a short yell before my hair was grabbed and my head jerked violently back . |
| 24 | Spectator sport may have been partially commercialized but it never became a capitalist leisure enterprise . |
| 25 | If anything is moved then I am informed and we also record the new acquisitions . |