Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it . |
| 2 | Whatever roots I may once have had were cut off years ago when as a young man or old boy I left my father 's house to make my way in horrible competitive London . |
| 3 | McAteer could not remember having been struck there and made no claim as to how the injury had been caused . |
| 4 | Also , since the sole proprietor and directing mind and will of the company was not misled by the audit report , the company could not claim to have been misled by it ; the company and its proprietor were in effect one and the same ( p 111 ; see also p 6 ) . |
| 5 | A couple who allowed their Great Dane to starve until it could hardly walk have been banned from keeping dogs for five years . |
| 6 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 7 | After all , she could n't fail to have been taken with me — I 'm one good-looking animal . |
| 8 | She could n't recollect having been informed of this . |
| 9 | I could n't afford to risk being left on the shelf once Karen had had her way with me . |
| 10 | The rule prohibits any person ( other than the actual bidder ) from trading ( or causing others to trade ) where he is in possession of material information relating to the tender offer which he knows or ought reasonably to know has been acquired directly or indirectly from a range of persons . |
| 11 | Bathsheba would not have minded being spoken to angrily by Gabriel for her thoughtlessness , if only he had told her he loved her . |
| 12 | The magistrate would also appear to have been infected with the same cheerful disposition : even allowing for the ravages of inflation , a ten shillings fine is a somewhat less than draconian response to a charge of pushing a policeman 's head through a shop window . |
| 13 | What he would n't have done is gone out and bought the girl loads of flowers the next morning and then get caught by me doing it . |
| 14 | The space upon which last week 's column would otherwise have encroached was occupied , coincidentally , by a feature on a very old friend from Shildon . |
| 15 | But there is some question of a pathogenic secret , of the recovery of material hitherto repressed which influenced his perception of his mother : and his understanding of the past would certainly appear to have been enlarged by his researches . |
| 16 | Stock Exchange requirements and all relevant SSAPs will also need to have been complied with . |
| 17 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |