Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Magnum photographer has lived and worked almost continuously in Britain since 1961 and the exhibition is selected from work of that period ( until 23 Feb ) . |
| 2 | Brand has struggled but showed some welcome improvement at Valderrama last week . |
| 3 | ( This story has run and run in both North America and the UK , where is was printed as a true story in a national newspaper twenty-five years ago . ) |
| 4 | With the low acceleration of a car launch , unless the pilot recognises that the cable has broken and lowers the nose very quickly , the glider will stall and land heavily . |
| 5 | In an earlier incarnation I would have paid my dues to the temple priests and consulted the oracle : ‘ Please tell me whether the tumour in my chest has grown or diminished ? ’ |
| 6 | It is as if the legislative and regulatory shell has protected and encouraged the growth of a complex philosophy of broadcasting . |
| 7 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 8 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 9 | It then assumes a parliamentary intention that the steps which Parliament has enjoined or authorized for saving or minimizing tax shall not be effective if they are carried out for that purpose but are only to be effective if carried out for some other ‘ legitimate ’ business purpose . |
| 10 | job holder has resigned and left the country . |
| 11 | HARDCOPY VERIFIER Once the user has decided whether to accept or reject hard copy volumes , this interactive program , HCVERIFY.EXE , is run to inform the hard copy system of the decision . |
| 12 | It should not persuade us that this writer has yielded or sold out , any more than it should persuade us that the boy poet Klima is in every sense the boy poet Jaromil . |
| 13 | Administrative computing ( for which the University has created and filled the new post of Director of Administrative Information Services ) will continue to be developed under the Management and Administrative Computing Initiative . |
| 14 | Many of you will have already received , at the principal 's request , a copy of the University 's Annual Report 1991–1992 published in February 1993 , to update you on how the University has evolved and grown . |
| 15 | Experience has shown that increases in the cost of newspapers , magazines or books leads to a reduction in sales . |
| 16 | I I accept that er the government guidance as Miss has suggested and reinforced by Mr does suggest a policy is that there should be that er increased level er of detail erm in the structure plan . |
| 17 | In a 30 year span , electrification has come and gone . |
| 18 | The books draw on the experiences of Christians in Guatemala , whose faith has strengthened and supported them through the hardships and challenges of recent years . |
| 19 | Supporting players in the lineout can only move when the jumper has touched or caught the ball . |
| 20 | For centuries the science of cooking has intrigued and occupied the minds of philosophers to kings . |
| 21 | The present case has arisen as follows . |
| 22 | The trial has aged and diminished him . |
| 23 | The Chairman has responded and admitted his side of the wrong . |
| 24 | Now , they would be thought obscene public perception has changed and understood that animals are sentient beings and that we demean our humanity if we are cruel to them or permit cruelty . |
| 25 | Officials have placed adverts in the British Medical Journal on behalf of the emirate , in a move which Labour has condemned as encouraging a medical brain drain . |
| 26 | ‘ The marsh has caught and killed it . |
| 27 | Pharaoh has heard and rejected Moses ' request . |
| 28 | Is he aware that Father Reilley , the chairman of the governors , has already been disposed of , that the new chairman had a brawl with the head teacher , to which the police had to be called , that the chairman has purported to sack the head teacher and that the Department has intervened and had correspondence and has appointed new governors ? |
| 29 | Now that inflation and interest rates are coming down , the economy is moving into an upturn and prospects are getting better , as even the Labour party 's former adviser has agreed and written repeatedly in the newspapers . |
| 30 | However , over the past five years , a new industry has developed that makes and markets machines whose purpose and promise is that they can outthink humans in an arena traditionally thought to demand reasoning of the highest sort . |