Example sentences of "[vb pp] [Wh det] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain may still be a country where " everything is permitted which is not specifically prohibited " , but the specific prohibitions have become more numerous , without having to justify themselves against the overriding principle of public interest suggested by the Royal Commission on the Press . |
| 2 | No approval by the production Code Administration shall be given to the use of words and phrases in motion pictures including , but not limited to , the following : Alley cat ( applied to a woman ) ; bat ( applied to a woman ) ; broad ( applied to a woman ) ; bronx cheer ( the sound ) ; chip-pie ; cocotte ; God , Lord , Jesus , Christ ( unless used reverently ) ; cripes ; fanny ; fairy ( in a vulgar sense ) ; ‘ hold your hat ’ ; louse ; lousy ; Mada ( relating to prostitution ) ; nance , nerts ; nuts ( except when meaning crazy ) ; pansy ; razzberry ( the sound ) ; slut ( applied to a woman ) ; S O B ; son-of-a ; tart ; toilet gags ; tom cat ( applied to a man ) ; travelling salesmen and farmer 's daughter jokes ; whore ; damn ; hell ( excepting when the use of said last two words shall be essential and required for portrayal , in proper historical context , of any scene or dialogue based upon historical fact or folklore , or for the presentation in proper literary context of a Biblical , or other religious quotation , or a quotation from a literary work provided that no such use shall be permitted which is intrinsically objectionable or offends good taste ) . |
| 3 | They 're already committed which is quite good in January . |
| 4 | And D L Steelworks and Lanarkshire Steelworks , these er steelworks , all amalgamated which is now known as the Ravenscraig Steelworks . |
| 5 | I have n't even looked what 's on tonight . |
| 6 | Nor does it seem to have stifled what is often stringent criticism . |
| 7 | Similarly , history lines can be amended which is particularly useful in the case of retrospective pay awards , because if the correct " reason for change " code is used , the system will in these cases calculate back pay including shift and other allowances due . |
| 8 | The appropriate information has to be exchanged through the interpreter , so that a service is given which is both within the remit of the service and acceptable to the individual recipient . |
| 9 | This approach opened the way for extending judicial review to the exercise of power whether conferred by statute or common law or simply by virtue of the background principle of English law which permits anything to be done which is not prohibited by law . |
| 10 | erm And of course there 's a great deal of history which is now being written which is much more exciting than most of the history that used to be written in the past . |
| 11 | One of the criticisms of this approach is that data may be collected which is never used subsequently . |
| 12 | It may alternatively take the form of withholding or threatening to withhold the performance of some public duty or the rendering of some public service unless a payment is made which is not lawfully due or is greater than that which is lawfully due , as was the position in the colore officii cases . |
| 13 | A response has been made which is not ‘ Y ’ ( Yes ) or ‘ N ’ ( No ) as expected . |
| 14 | A response has been made which is not ‘ Y ’ ( Yes ) or ‘ N ’ ( No ) as expected . |
| 15 | A response has been made which is not ‘ P ’ ( Primary ) , ‘ S ’ ( Secondary ) or ‘ B ’ ( Both ) as expected . |
| 16 | A response has been made which is not ‘ G' ( Grant ) or ‘ C' ( Cancel ) as expected . |
| 17 | A response has been made which is not ‘ A' ( All ) , ‘ O ’ ( Outstanding ) , ‘ R ’ ( Replied ) or ‘ C ’ ( Closed ) as expected . |
| 18 | Finally , an aluminium coating is applied which is partly evaporated using a mask , leaving behind the interconnections between components formed in the semiconductor layer . |
| 19 | Not until I 've seen what 's there and taken your father 's advice on what to do about it . ’ |
| 20 | Regrettably , such documentaries convey to the public an image of the mentally handicapped which is historically stereotyped — that mentally handicapped people are sad figures of rejection incarcerated in mental asylums ; the images of ‘ Walter ’ . |
| 21 | And the girl who came for him was Young and Insolent and spoke to me as if I were some common washerwoman who must do as she was told which is not in my nature nor never was . |
| 22 | I analysed them and found that a material had been used which is only obtainable in Iron Curtain countries . |
| 23 | Trying to write a quality procedure to describe each management process flushes out the ‘ motherhood ’ statements and causes the re-examination and refinement of each process until a simple management procedure can be drafted which is clearly understood and accepted by operators . |
| 24 | The use of definite reference and third person pronoun signal that shared knowledge is to be engaged , that is to say , that contextual information is needed which is not abstracted in the codified forms of grammar . |
| 25 | The snag about recording is that an enormous amount of material is produced which is very tedious to analyse . |
| 26 | It has been shown that for a chain moving in the melt , over time-scales that greatly exceed the lifetime of the tube τ , a reptation self-diffusion coefficient D rept , can be measured which is inversely proportional to n 2 , i.e. the diffusion law is |
| 27 | It was to some extent a class conflict and , although I am glad to have had what is commonly regarded as a ‘ good education ’ , I must seriously doubt the wisdom of the County Council 's charitable and well-intentioned scheme . |
| 28 | For who inside the system needs to be told what is well understood ? |
| 29 | Nature , Sickert insisted , is not going to sit still and wait till you have got what is there — all the most interesting things that happen are of the most momentary description . |
| 30 | AN American biologist called Roger Knutson has produced what is surely , to date , the year 's most disheartening book . |