Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | those who are unable to cook for themselves because they are disabled or frail or have become very forgetful ; |
| 2 | If you have any queries or have had either good or bad experiences with cleaning firms , contact either Sheila or John at . |
| 3 | Executive elites have tried to exempt certain policy zones from judicial oversight , or have set up specialized tribunals , committees , and boards , staffed by experts who employ inquisitorial rather than adversarial methods of establishing the truth . |
| 4 | Systems that have employed more contextual information are text recognition systems ( OCR ) which have also made use of error correction techniques . |
| 5 | As you probably read in the quality press , FIMBRA are always being taken to task for er not spotting investment groups that have gone too far , er and er when you get the collapse of something like the Levitt group erm which you 'll be aware of perhaps was the er sort of boxing and impresario type route that was taken by the man in the dicky bow . |
| 6 | Research should begin in 1986 in two areas that have received only minimal research attention : the education of children in care and the effects of major social , economic and demographic trends on the need for child care and the nature of the services provided . |
| 7 | Fig. 14 shows distinctive banding patterns that have persisted virtually unchanged for a century . |
| 8 | Have not we heard planted questions this afternoon that have contained carefully worked-out statistic after statistic ? |
| 9 | Many such branch operations currently have most of their taxable investment income determined according to apportionment rules that have changed little since the First World War and have become increasingly inappropriate . |
| 10 | They no longer separate news from opinion and have become increasingly partisan . |
| 11 | Over the years , teaching fashions have changed and have become less formal . |
| 12 | Those themes , some of which are very clear within the document , others were hidden away in 1983 and have become more important since then . |
| 13 | This survey shows that firms in both the North and South of the country report greater improvement than in the previous survey and have become more optimistic about their own prospects . |
| 14 | We also have a a budgeting process er for the er for the firm 's year and we 're right in the throes of that right now for next year for ninety four , ninety five but it wo n't be any surprise to you that the recession er hit the office like any other business or the businesses that you go and see , er quite significantly , er the businesses that we 've been looking after , they 've stopped investing , they 've stopped looking at I T issues and have become very cautious and they 've basically taken stock as to where their position is . |
| 15 | Many provincial towns in the United States have lost almost all their shops to suburban shopping malls and have become very dead places as a result . |
| 16 | The golden boys , those who never give the bad news , who make sure that when the plant breaks down they are not available to inform anybody , and have made absolutely certain they were n't around during the run-up to such a disaster , are rewarded . |
| 17 | In the management of the Council 's Environment Award Scheme we have frequently come across the problem of schools needing practical advice and have assisted whenever possible . |
| 18 | The chicks need round the clock attention , and have developed very healthy appetites . |
| 19 | We have already touched on the importance of user interfaces ( see 1.4 ) and have emphasised how crucial it is to provide lay users of multimedia systems with interfaces that offer extreme friendliness without sacrificing power for simplicity . |
| 20 | The West German embassy in Prague , where thousands of people had taken refuge , is now surrounded by Czechoslovak police , who check the identities of all comers and have sent away numerous would-be refugees . |
| 21 | Such an inequality has been modified and refined in the decades since emancipation , but blacks have never quite shed the remnants of their shackles and have stayed socially unequal . |
| 22 | In the past , Chelsea teams have not been so disciplined , and have given away silly goals . |
| 23 | In this study , we have fed rats diets containing 133 g/kg non-starch polysaccharides ( NSP ) or 17 g/kg NSP for 18 months , equivalent to lifelong ingestion in man , and have measured both cellular proliferation and colonc SCFA . |
| 24 | The work of COPPES is but a small indication of the determination and resolve of the women prisoners to demand respect for their human rights , Despite their exceptionally disheartening conditions , they have Protested using all the means at their disposal and have carried out educational and political activities designed to support the work of the FDR-FMLN : |
| 25 | In the tropics , however , flowers of one kind or another can be found throughout the year , so there animals are able to make pollen and nectar the mainstay of their diet and have evolved highly efficient organs to collect it . |
| 26 | Many floating voters may have finally decided which party to back later on Wednesday or even on Thursday — and have voted disproportionately Tory . |
| 27 | Conglomerate mergers have the smallest scope for obvious gains through economies of scale but have become increasingly common in recent years . |
| 28 | Widows ' pensions were designed as a partial replacement for loss of a ‘ family wage ’ or husband 's retirement pension , but have become increasingly problematic as more women get divorced or prefer to remain unmarried . |
| 29 | Lift and Snip scissors originated in the USA , but have become increasingly popular in Britain . |
| 30 | The other two themes were less important in the circular but have become more important in the past 5 years . |