Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The host species on the other hand could survive being parasitised since only a small proportion suffer the attentions of the cuckoo , and most of these will breed again to produce their own offspring . |
| 2 | The joyful energy which women could generate was seen as dangerous , and the Christian church today is often equally suspicious of charismatic services . |
| 3 | A woman must not be made financially dependent because she is involved in child care , nor must this work be regarded as socially unimportant . |
| 4 | People do n't mind being referred if it 's something that is genuinely but say they phone Leeds and Leeds do n't know and Leeds refer them to a number they think it is and then they refer to a third number then somebody gets . |
| 5 | A policy that could not work was presented as one that could , and a scheme that stood American policy on its head was elaborately argued to be otherwise . |
| 6 | ‘ You can avoid being contaminated if you have the right protective cover and use protective gloves , ’ said Pooley . |
| 7 | This is so because , if courts are empowered to make authoritative determinations of the fact that a rule has been broken , these can not avoid being taken as authoritative determinations of what the rules are . |
| 8 | But in fact it was the docking crew as a whole who were at fault , because the platform 's progress towards the support cradle should have been halted as soon as it passed completely through the field , so that earthing and other safety procedures could be instigated . |
| 9 | If the razor was on top of the heap , he would have been cut as soon as he touched it . |
| 10 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |
| 11 | ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else . |
| 12 | A claim had been made for travel outside the normal operating area , a journey which should have been authorised before it took place . |
| 13 | In any event , the judge awarded the whole of his estimate of the increased price which would have been obtained whereas the correct measure of damage for a failure to disclose the material facts was the loss to the plaintiff of the chance of negotiating an increased price if he had had the information . |
| 14 | The issue in this case was whether or not listed building consent should have been obtained before the neoclassical statue was removed from the Temple of Graces , a listed building specifically designed to house it |
| 15 | Zeki 's results would never have been obtained if he had continued to study V4 cells using spectrally pure light sources that are the tradition in visual system physiology , rather than coloured objects which are the normal source of our colour perception . |
| 16 | As the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one can vary during the day and acute increases have been found , a better correlation may have been obtained if a serum sample had been taken at more than one occasion from each patient . |
| 17 | Their dealings for clients at premium prices realised £1,378,892 more than would have been obtained if the shares had been sold later . |
| 18 | This goodwill , Hopkins added , ‘ went beyond — in my judgement much beyond — any forecast which could reasonably have been made before hostilities began ’ . |
| 19 | In contrast to the ‘ Spanish Inquisition ’ method , a prior decision on priorities and cuts will have been made before the hectic bargaining about detail begins . |
| 20 | Looking back , one can only wonder why no-one suggested easier ways of working , great economies could have been made if a time and motion expert had been employed . |
| 21 | It is doubtful whether this recommendation would have been made if the Court had assessed the matter as affecting the security of the United States ; individuals ' rights can be more readily accommodated when they do not impact upon vital concerns of States . |
| 22 | They compared the actual returns on 60 US mutual funds for the three-year period 1982–4 with returns that would have been made if a specified strategy for investing in S&P500 futures had been followed . |
| 23 | All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period . |
| 24 | A Labour councillor , Tom Barrie , said the cuts would not have been made if poll tax avoiders such as Mr Griffin had paid up . |
| 25 | An official announcement could have been made as follows : ‘ Imminent invasion by superior forces is expected in the near future . |
| 26 | Asterix might never have been born but for a chance meeting in 1951 with another cartoonist , Rene Goscinny , at the Paris offices of a Belgian newspaper syndicate . |
| 27 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |
| 28 | There was no catch to question 10 ; after 12 minutes in the climb with a ground speed of 90 knots our aircraft was exactly 18 nm from the aerodrome , and the correct answer should have been printed as c and not as a . |
| 29 | Now , the Israelites had been taught to welcome strangers and to look after them and Ruth 's fears must have been allayed as they receive her , there 's no cross examination , there 's no inquisition , she does n't go through any third degree , she is received back at face value . |
| 30 | not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats |