Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On an early test flight the undercarriage retraction mechanism jammed because a glove got caught up and the gear collapsed in the subsequent landing , fortunately without damage to the airframe . |
| 2 | Mother went to visit her relatives in Hungary , near Szeged , and got caught there when the Russians advanced . |
| 3 | Before I moved in the ceiling got smashed in and the place was covered in water — it happens because the places are left empty . |
| 4 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |
| 5 | Through the love and compassion of Jesus the missionary is able to return time after time until this love has broken through and the message is accepted . |
| 6 | Andy takes the branch we hit the man with and wedges it under the grating ; part of it sticks through but there 's a stump where a smaller branch has broken off and the grating rests on that , held a half-metre or so off the stone rim . |
| 7 | Chronic under-nutrition will lead to the child 's demanding less and becoming withdrawn so that the mother fails to provide any more . |
| 8 | This shows that the actualization of the infinitive 's event is not what such sentences express , an analysis supported by Coates ( 1983 : 100 ) , who gives a similar argument for the meaning of can in her discussion of She can swim , and Palmer ( 1977 : 5 ) , who has pointed out that a sentence such as ( 12 ) is impossible because can " is not used to imply actuality in the past " : ( 12 ) * I ran fast and could catch the bus , Example ( 13 ) however is quite acceptable because it implies that the event did not take place , being seen merely as a possibility in the past ( i.e. a potentiality ) . |
| 9 | Jean-Marie Balestre , the president of FISA , has pointed out that the regulations permit an immediate ban regardless of any appeal and there would appear to be no further argument on that point . |
| 10 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |
| 11 | Paul Craddock of the British Museum Research Laboratory has pointed out that the silver in metals used at Igbo Ukwu would almost certainly have been recovered by European and Arab smiths of the period , while the unusually low iron content suggests the copper was made by a very primitive technology . |
| 12 | AMAX has pointed out that the mine could create 350 new jobs . |
| 13 | Vijaya Samaraweera has pointed out that the ideal viewpoint for understanding the colonial legal system is that of the ‘ typical litigant ’ . |
| 14 | Richard Gombrich has pointed out that the idea of truth as an autonomous secular value has no firm base in Sinhalese village society . |
| 15 | In France Sellier ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the ( late ) appearance of employers ' organisations oriented towards labour rather than commercial interests , in 1919 and again in 1936 , corresponded to two periods of social crisis and state intervention towards resolving it . |
| 16 | James Grant , the editor of a New York newsletter , has pointed out that the value of outstanding contracts in the gold-futures market is a little over $1 billion . |
| 17 | Kornhauser ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the main tenets of control theory are to be found in the ideas of the pioneers of sociological criminology — the sociologists of the Chicago school , working in the early decades of this century ( Thrasher , 1927 ; Shaw , 1929 ) . |
| 18 | In addition Havelock has pointed out that the Greek concern with metaphysics did not , in fact , develop simultaneously with the growth of alphabetic literacy but only much later . |
| 19 | Armed with the knowledge that 2 in 3 of the 4.6 million farmers over 55 years of age have less than 5 hectares , and that the community has about 2 million farmers who are over 65 , McSharry has pointed out that the economic viability of many such farms is constantly under threat and that the introduction of an early retirement scheme would help the small farmer and also reduce production . |
| 20 | In this context Elliott has pointed out that the association of answerability , responsibility and accountability with specific audiences ( i.e. clients , colleagues and employers , respectively ) is problematic . |
| 21 | Rubinstein ( 1989 ) has pointed out that the introduction of trading in baskets of shares ( e.g. the shares in the S&P500 index or the Index Participation Units ( TIPs ) in the Toronto 35 index ) such as index participations , will lower the transactions costs of index arbitrage , so narrowing the no-arbitrage band . |
| 22 | Fisher ( 1990 ) has pointed out that the community care reforms are based upon a conception of case management which takes little account of those people for whom services have , mandatorily , to be provided , but who refuse to accept them . |
| 23 | Dr Hunt has pointed out that the geography of farm wages changed far more between 1750 and 1790 than at any time in the period 1790 to 1914 . |
| 24 | The ministry has pointed out that the incidence of the disease in four-year-old cattle is due to banned feed being used after the cut off date on 18 July , 1989 . |
| 25 | Allan Megill has pointed out that an alternative ‘ meaning ’ of the phrase is , ‘ there is no inserted plate ’ ( a French dictionary defines ‘ hors-texte ’ as ‘ Gravure , planche tirée á part et intercalée dans un livre ’ ) . |
| 26 | Professor Kaldor has pointed out that an increase in the note issue precedes the Christmas spending spree , to facilitate the extra demand for transactions balances , but the absence of such an increase would not prevent the spending boom . |
| 27 | Now , 40 years on , this structure has fallen apart and the cry is for a free market economy . |
| 28 | The coefficients are generally similar to those in ( 2.2 ) , although the standard error has fallen slightly and the impact effect from a given change in wealth is some 12% smaller . |
| 29 | In 1964 , Lord Gardiner , who shortly afterwards became Lord Chancellor himself , said that since 1951 ‘ one or two ’ Lord Chancellors ( there had been only three ) ‘ felt that the standard of members of the bar going into the House of Commons has fallen noticeably since the war , and if you want the right men in the House of Commons then you must reward the man who votes the right way with a judgeship ’ . |
| 30 | Even if the economics of bulk sales improve — Chemical reckons that the bulk-discount has fallen sharply as the property market has revived — Citicorp considers it worth sticking with property in order to help create a liquid market in it . |