Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adequate insurance cover gives you the peace of mind of knowing that your business 's ability to continue trading has been preserved , and that the personal assets of directors are not at risk . |
| 2 | There still seems to be a lot to be discovered quantitatively about the physical nature of wave damage or erosion and its precise causes , although Komar ( 1976 ) has pointed to work being done in Japan relating wave height and frequency , together with rock properties , to rates of cliff recession . |
| 3 | The energy radiated to space has been calculated from detailed observations across the Jovian disc of radiation at planetary wavelengths , and the energy absorbed from the Sun has been calculated from the Bond albedo , which measurements have shown is about 35% . |
| 4 | The bearer of this document , Agatha de Courcy , must be given every aid and assistance for what she has done has been done for the sake of the Crown and the good of our realm . ’ |
| 5 | Everything he has done has been aimed at bringing the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 6 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 7 | And for every tonne of gold at least twice as much mercury has thought to have been lost into the environment . |
| 8 | As has been suggested , ‘ prejudice ’ , as an everyday concept , as well as a social-scientific one , represents a strong cultural value : even racist theorists of a fascist party appear to wish to avoid being labelled as prejudiced and do not care to think of themselves as prejudiced . |
| 9 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 10 | This incident has led to work being carried on , comparing shadow sizes . |
| 11 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 12 | It was n't that she looked forward to them exactly , but the fury he 'd used to generate was gone . |
| 13 | However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice . |
| 14 | Watkins concluded that these straight trackways , which he came to believe had been known as ‘ leys ’ , had ‘ landmarks ’ constructed along their route as a guide . |
| 15 | But local people this week vowed to step up their campaign after details of the area of land the developers are seeking to have re-zoned were made public . |
| 16 | Its completely out of character for Rocky to have said this … probably some 3rd rate hack cornered him just after he 'd learnt hed been dropped . |
| 17 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 18 | A drama which threatened to turn into a tragedy when artistic tempers flared appears to have been resolved . |
| 19 | Clearly , in Satnam and kindred cases , the purely objective stance which Caldwell has been interpreted to represent has been rejected . |
| 20 | And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World . |
| 21 | ‘ Just as you 're going to have to endure being separated from Jeff every day — at least for a few hours , while we do our English lessons . ’ |
| 22 | The uniform he was wearing seemed to have been assembled from outfits designed to fit several very different people : the sleeves were too long and the neck too wide , while the cap was so small it had left a pink welt around his forehead . |
| 23 | The idea of a coronation was allowed to drop — probably to the relief of both parties , since the pope 's unwillingness to perform seems to have been equalled by the Emperor 's reluctance to participate . |
| 24 | Shakespeare must have known someone very like Ralph Edwards when he put Fluellen into Henry V. If Ralph came in on St David 's Day , I would have hidden to avoid being forced to eat a raw leek as was poor ancient Pistol in that play . |
| 25 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 26 | Chant might have applauded had be possessed two workable hands , but the flea 's message of corruption was spreading with agonizing speed . |
| 27 | Other candidates presented themselves : Brassard must know Miller 's End and he might have come to hate being bullied by Newley ; Yorick blamed Newley for his own failings , and was hysterical enough to kill on impulse ; Henry , having predicted Newley 's death , had a vested interest in ensuring that the prediction was fulfilled ; Zaza might have been seduced by Newley and then spurned |
| 28 | There are many volumes un-numbered and many which were numbered seem to have been lost or given away . |
| 29 | Preston might have preferred to have been called Blackpool , all things considered . |
| 30 | This of course was a common point of view but none the less irritating because we were nearly all conscripted at this stage of the war and would have preferred to have been left alone to get on with our nice , comfortable civilian lives in peace . |