Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In January 1992 the USA had claimed that questions still remained about Iraq 's short- and long-range missile capabilities — see pp. 38742-43 . ) |
| 2 | Social security appeal tribunals are categorized as the least formal of the tribunals investigated , but it is reported that appellants nevertheless found attendance before them a nerve-wracking ordeal . |
| 3 | Opportunities are to be maximised and threats either avoided or turned into opportunities ( see Sharplin , 1985 , pp. 54 6 , 190–4. where it is referred to as WOTS-UP analysis ) . |
| 4 | be a bit of sunshine expected and temperatures back up to near normal at sixty eight degrees fahrenheit . |
| 5 | Duplication will be minimized and resources more cost-effectively utilized . |
| 6 | Mr Roger Calvert , an orthopaedic consultant , described the scene of devastation , with severed limbs scattered and passengers still trapped : ‘ Dispassionate is not the word one would use . |
| 7 | It was all a spoof , but taken for real by many viewers , particularly when cameramen collapsed and scratches mysteriously appeared on a girl 's face which became covered in blood and distorted . |
| 8 | ( 1.7 ) unc The final IF law lets us deal with IF constructs which are nested as processes rather than as conditionals . |
| 9 | If , over the years , the balance of probabilities has shifted so that balances previously included as creditors now seem unlikely ever to be paid , it would be appropriate for the balances in question to be removed from creditors , with the corresponding credit in either profit and loss account or , if the sums are material and the adjustment arises from a fundamental error , the profit and loss reserves in the balance sheet . |
| 10 | Throughout the present chapter , and indeed elsewhere in this report , we have intimated that policies too must come in for scrutiny . |
| 11 | But now a ten-year study in the West African forest of the Ivory Coast has revealed that chimpanzees there hunt regularly and do so in teams within which there are specialised roles , habitually taken by particular individuals . |
| 12 | Keeping up appearances at work is paying off — a recent survey has revealed that women now account for 26% of managerial posts — a figure that 's trebled since the late 1970's . |
| 13 | In the last intermediate report of the group , published in June , 1988 , it was revealed that Cats alone had generated £250 million in the previous three years , and that Lloyd Webber had personally earned £12.5 million from the show . |
| 14 | It 's always said that Oppositions rarely win elections , Governments lose them . |
| 15 | It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England . |
| 16 | You can do this through a Licensed Conveyancer , or even do it yourself , but having said that solicitors nowadays ( at least , the ones we use ) tend to give pretty good value for money . |
| 17 | It is often said that penalties automatically follow when blood appears following a facial attack , but this is an over-simplification . |
| 18 | But it need hardly be said that voters sometimes disappoint candidates and campaign managers . |
| 19 | It is said that centuries ago monks from Watton Abbey roamed these pastures with their sheep and were able to rest in a chapel of ease which was situated in the village . |
| 20 | It is said that tunnels once used by escapers from the castle still exist beneath the grounds . |
| 21 | Jacques Donzelot has argued that women actively colluded with doctors because of the new-found status that accrued to them within the family as educators of their children and as medical auxiliaries . |
| 22 | Thus it could be argued that children only psychologize as a last resort when they do not have ready access to information about plausible causal mechanisms . |
| 23 | It is argued that markets necessarily coordinate demand and supply ex post rather than ex ante . |
| 24 | It has been seen that singularities inevitably occur in the solutions describing the interaction region of colliding plane waves . |
| 25 | Generally darkness , or weak lighting , was necessary ; then tables rocked , objects moved , lights were seen and things sometimes felt , and messages were rapped out . |
| 26 | Here again there is a question of balance : if society has democratically determined that taxes shall be collected and revenues so received spent in certain ways , non-payment of taxes is punishable even if the defaulter is objecting on conscientious grounds to aspects of staff spending — on arms , for example . |
| 27 | Sometimes the patient will talk , pouring out problems and anxieties , but more often nothing is said and tears slowly subside into relaxation . |
| 28 | The definition in the Code includes companies wherever incorporated and individuals wherever resident . |
| 29 | Low Water Beck was ascended but conditions here ( unusually ) were never great . |
| 30 | As there are often only half a dozen wash-basins , turns must be arranged and children soon realise that there are too many or not enough children for the basins available . |