Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It was a reaction for which Police Chief Darryl Gates was widely criticized and which he , in retrospect , admitted had been a serious mistake .
2 The cars would pass and re-pass each other in a game of motorway weaving , the sons manoeuvring their powerful Mercedes around each other until the women eventually objected or they themselves tired of the sport .
3 Something had changed , because I had suddenly realised that what I was trying to do was impossible .
4 Another consequence of the labelling of Impressionism and other groups by critics was that some artists naturally decided that they themselves could do the same job better than the critics .
5 Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge .
6 Even a 1 Key holiday home can be Highly Commended if what it provides is to a very high standard .
7 Please remember that even a Listed or 1 Crown place , or 1 Key holiday home , can still be Highly Commended if what it provides is to an exceptionally high standard .
8 In the second bay starting from the western end , northern side and up to the gangway , was H. Webb 's black gang , so called because everything they dealt with was black in colour .
9 Half-jokingly , but with a certain edge , Moran said that Great Meadow was so deserted that he himself might have to remove himself before long to her house .
10 She 'd finally realised that what she needed was to commit mind , body and soul into something challenging and exciting .
11 I have therefore to agree with both the councils , that the comments you have just made and which you make at some length in your proof on this point , amount in effect to a late objection .
12 It will be clear from what I have already said that I myself do not have a Christology and am not a Christian .
13 All of these activities meant that he could not get on with his new play , of which the first two scenes were already drafted and which he had planned , tentatively , to finish in time for the Edinburgh Festival of 1952 .
14 So I hope I 've not complicated that I I always find it 's helpful to say this about this speaker this because no other speaker no speaker is here with a .
15 I suspect that if I had to find an alternative to what we 've already proposed and what we 've constantly supported , I would actually go right back to the , I would actually go right back to the beginning erm because it would be cleaner and it would be clearer .
16 Joan de Warenne being not of royal blood and not linked as you yourself are , Lady Anne , by a bond of marriage , I can see no virtue in such an arrangement . ’
17 Assertions can be signalled by writing " I would suggest " , or " I would argue " , but often it is just assumed that whatever you say is your suggestion or argument .
18 in this budget that we 've just passed and what we want to make sure is how that money is being spent .
19 You need to know who they have been to see , what advice they have already tried and what they thought about it .
20 By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently .
21 erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft .
22 The ‘ adaptive ’ function is based on the proposition that what we call crime today includes forms of behaviour that will be crucially necessary to future society — Durkheim 's ( 1938 ) examples , are the ideas of Socrates and liberal philosophy which were once criminalised but which he sees as vital for contemporary society .
23 Position positional isomers branch chain functional group and there 's one other odd one which has a very peculiar name and the name it normally goes by is a fairly old name , now I 'm not sure at this stage if that name is still used but what I 'll do is to describe the form of the isomerism first and let you decide what you would prefer to call it .
24 It was the most extraordinary sensory experience he had ever had and one he never wanted to repeat .
25 She spoke in innocence of the fact that Knockglen had once thought that she herself might be the ideal child for them .
26 You know you are not wasting your time because this is a job for which you are genuinely suited and which you would like .
27 On Feb. 16 the Serbian LC further demanded that what it termed " illegal immigrants " from Albania should be repatriated , and that those who had been granted Yugoslavian citizenship should be stripped of their rights if they had acted against the constitutional order .
28 Hence common words will be more rapidly identified or produced than uncommon words , and also a word which has been presented previously will be more rapidly identified than one which has not .
29 The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football .
30 The court might equally have said that the defendant also realised that what he was doing was obstruction , since the police had told him so .
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