Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the imbalance of representation that the Commission 's system was intended to redress is less striking . |
| 2 | Usually , the claim that a randomised trial ( whether of a preventive or a therapeutic regimen ) is unethical presumes that the answer to the question that the trial is designed to answer is already known . |
| 3 | Queen 's coach John Wilson said : ‘ The news that David , Gary and Innes have all decided to stay is very welcome , but not all that surprising to us . |
| 4 | In order to ensure that the expression given to experience is as little of a mismatch as possible , it is necessary to develop the capacity for reflective thinking , and to this I now turn . |
| 5 | What we 've got to do is actually make them respect us . |
| 6 | What you 've got to do is actually have some understanding of the needs of a of particular newspapers , radio programmes , television programmes , by studying , look at it , see what it who 's it for , what language do they use , how do they phrase things , what 's their format , and then you can get yourself in the position where you can say , ‘ I can do something like that , I can produce something like that . ’ |
| 7 | ALRINS The module you have tried to install is already installed . |
| 8 | The title Fergie may or may not be allowed to keep is also certain to come under review , along with the cash settlement Bryan was supposed to be negotiating . |
| 9 | BEINST The module you have tried to install/deinstall is currently being installed . |
| 10 | Teachers may find that terminology which is intended to clarify is sometimes on the one hand , over-prescriptive or , on the other , so indefinite as to be confusing . |
| 11 | As to the actual transfer itself , the Court had already held in Case 105/84 , Mikkelsen[1985] ECR 2639 that ‘ the protection which the Directive is intended to guarantee is however redundant where the person concerned decides of his own accord not to continue the employment relationship with the new employer after the transfer … ’ and so resigns or terminates the employment by agreement from the date of the transfer ( point 16 ) . |
| 12 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 13 | The work which convicted prisoners are required to do is often meaningless and degrading . |