Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sporadic outbreaks of fighting reported during March were mainly attributed to unruly rebel troops . |
| 2 | The relief claimed against Lautro was originally an order of certorari to quash the intervention notice , and a declaration that the notice was unlawful . |
| 3 | Cashman had not come into Cadogan 's before , preferring Matthew to go down and see him in Hampshire . |
| 4 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 5 | On the one hand , Franco reiterated his belief that the common enemy was communism while , on the other , he insisted that the system he had instituted in Spain was neither Nazi nor fascist , but a unique and original synthesis which transcended both fascism and anti-fascism . |
| 6 | Statistical review : The particular task for Geoffrey Winston and his team at Thumb Design was to bring easily grasped clarity to the precision of the data contained in BP 's highly respected Statistical Review of World Energy . |
| 7 | O'Carroll sees such positions exemplified by the protagonists ' refusal to accept that certain therapeutic abortions already permitted in Ireland were actually abortions and by their predictions of social chaos should they fail in their fight : ‘ Hence phrases such as ‘ the opening of the floodgates ’ , ‘ the thin end of the wedge ’ , ‘ the slippery slope ’ , ‘ the permissive society ’ , and ‘ the abortion mentality ’ ’ ( 1983 : 12 ) . |
| 8 | The words addressed to Titius are therefore construed as setting up a trust in favour of others ; and the others happen to be the coheirs who stand to benefit from the resulting reduction in the share intended to fall to Titius . |
| 9 | The order won by Alcatel is only one of the key contracts . |
| 10 | As regards Yugoslav exports , the values reported by Yugoslavia were usually lower than the values of imports from Yugoslavia reported by the partner countries — but frequently so much lower as to be implausible . |
| 11 | The forms depicted by Nijinska are far from meaningless . |
| 12 | Other options already considered by Hammam are even more abhorrent to him . |
| 13 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
| 14 | Now , at last , she realised that whatever she had felt for Richard was long since buried , under an avalanche of hurt and disillusion . |
| 15 | Foreign Office texts prepared for Scandinavia were hastily withdrawn . |
| 16 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 17 | Is the answer that the principle applied in Hughes was entirely inapplicable to both Foakes v. Beer and High Trees ? |
| 18 | What the Normans and Angevins had done in England was now done in Gascony . |
| 19 | One bird that was shot in Patagonia was almost consigned to the digestive tracts of the Beagle crew before Darwin realised it might hold some scientific significance , and should be preserved for identification back in London . |
| 20 | In the human situation it can be played only by means of failure and suffering : these are the elements by which the triumph of joy and love seen in Christ is constantly rediscovered . |
| 21 | Miss Whitfield , 65 , can currently be seen in BBC2 's Absolutely Fabulous and also in Terry and June being shown on UK Gold . |
| 22 | Russian Turkomans are normally marketed as either Bokharas or Beshirs , depending on their design , and those made in Afghanistan are generally referred to as Afghans or Bokharas , although they may be named after the specific weaving village or tribe ( Kundous , Beshir , etc ) . |
| 23 | Man held : A man featured on Crimewatch was yesterday being questioned by police in connection with a robbery at the National and Provincial Building Society , Bondgate , Darlington last December . |
| 24 | Carthaginian coinage provides a good example , since the axis of coins made at Carthage was normally fixed at twelve , whereas that of coins made in the Sicilian or Sardinian provinces was variable . |
| 25 | The opportunity presented by RMI is nicely summed up in a paper by Black , Dearden , Mayhew and Nichol ( 1989 ) in which they say ‘ Resource management enables clinicians and managers to see directly what the cost of various patterns of care are , to consider alternatives and make decisions in a more informed way — at the level of patient , the service or service mix . |
| 26 | TEN Palestinians deported by Israel were yesterday allowed back into the country . |
| 27 | Three flight cased loudspeakers made by IBL are now available in the UK via B.K. Electronics . |
| 28 | ‘ The approach adopted by Niskanen is very strongly tailored to the United States condition . |
| 29 | Among the hero 's many adventures the twelve labours imposed by Eurystheus are only listed later ; but the regular list corresponds to the choice here and it is likely that it was in fact these twelve carvings at the heart of Greece 's greatest sanctuary that determined the canon . |
| 30 | First , any illusions that people may have had about Britain were soon dispelled : Britain still refused to accept anything above a loose intergovernmental structure . |