Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 2 | She could n't call back that she was asleep or had died . |
| 3 | Marxism can be a way to get rich or get laid . |
| 4 | They were worried about her being alone in the fiat and had wondered whether she was pregnant or had taken drugs . |
| 5 | those who are unable to cook for themselves because they are disabled or frail or have become very forgetful ; |
| 6 | But 31-year-old Damon Wayans grew up in a household where the unremitting rule was get funny or get ignored . |
| 7 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |
| 8 | We have got together with Hertz , the world 's largest car rental company , to offer you competitive rates for reliable hire cars pre-booked in the U.K. All of these pre-booked Hertz cars are usually less than seven months old or have covered no more than 31,000 miles ( 50,000kms ) are checked , cleaned and full of petrol and are delivered to and from your Club at no extra charge . |
| 9 | We have assumed that an unemployed individual must either continue being unemployed or become employed ; withdrawing from the labour force is not an option . |
| 10 | In 1983–4 , 33 per cent of young workers told interviewers from the GHS that they were unemployed or had experienced unemployment during the previous twelve months . |
| 11 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 12 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 13 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 14 | It 's problems like this that have convinced environmental campaigner , Julian Jones that Severn Trent Water is failing to meet its duty to control pollution . |
| 15 | It is the realisation of this that has led to sensory methods of assessment being developed . |
| 16 | It is this that has led students of social policy to draw attention to the significant impact of war upon policy . |
| 17 | It is this that has made some Americans say that , if Iraq agreed to withdraw from Kuwait , it must abandon its tanks and other heavy equipment . |
| 18 | This has made it possible to keep much greater numbers of animals in much greater stocking densities in intensive housing , and it is this that has made factory-farming possible . |
| 19 | It is this that has caused many readers to find in Troilus and Cressida a nihilistic vision of human life , where nothing of true value is maintained . |
| 20 | In effect this has meant approximately 400,000 new and inexperienced customers coming on to the overseas market each year , and it is this that has kept the traditional inclusive tour package alive . |
| 21 | It is this that has allowed the astonishingly rapid conquest of the terrestrial environment and the anthropogenic changes in habitat resulting from accelerating rates of population increase and extension of urban environments . |
| 22 | But there are some instances documented in the literature where people are quite clear that support given to in-laws is really being given to the blood relative . |
| 23 | and she 's had to go and buy some that had gone , and I says well I , she says it 's just burning it up that fire |
| 24 | In the end , ten republics — including some that had declared independence — agreed a joint statement which indicated that a loose union would be established based on Russia and the Central Asian republics , and that around it there would be a ‘ common economic space ’ that would include most if not all of the republics that had been part of the USSR . |
| 25 | Much of its business was concerned with continuing statutes that would otherwise lapse , repealing some that had become irksome , or modifying others which had revealed weaknesses in operation . |
| 26 | A few of Richard 's toys were there as well , and some that had belonged to Kate . |
| 27 | Many very poor countries , and even some that have suffered famines in the 1980s , like Ethiopia , have actually turned over land to cash crops for export . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , catching a cold is easier than getting rid of one . |
| 29 | We calculate from regression that A/g of oats and mustard would have increased 14.1 to 16.4mmol CO 2 per mol H 2 O , respectively , with the increase from 275 to 350μmolmol -1 CO 2 that has occurred since 1800 . |
| 30 | South Korea 's reafforestation and erosion control programme is one of the few that has enjoyed considerable success . |