Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The headhunting phenomenon of moving teams gained itself a bad name , and it is clear that such a practice is still scorned by many of the most reputable executive search firms and by many companies too , although it is accepted that it happened comparatively rarely . |
| 32 | This is now so widely accepted that it seems less like a theory , or even a theoretical framework , than a piece of common sense ; and in one form or another it encompasses the views of the majority of Anglo-American philosophers and neuroscientists about the basis of consciousness or , at the very least , of perception . |
| 33 | It is a measure of how fast and far events have moved that I do so now . |
| 34 | Studies of vegetarian groups have revealed that they suffer less from heart disease , strokes and gallstones . |
| 35 | The Hon. Member for Aberdeen , North is no doubt aware that Grampian Transport plc has revealed that it paid about £5 million for Grampian Regional Transport . |
| 36 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 37 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 38 | Somewhat cheekily that committee came back to us and asked us very nicely would we provide about twenty five for the force , which we thought was a cheek but having said that we 've actually looked at it and there may well be a way that we could afford it . |
| 39 | We have said that we have never been committed — it is not something new — to paying the full fees , however high . |
| 40 | And if undermining the left was the intention of the reforms , then it must be said that they failed dismally . |
| 41 | In fact , those who retired prematurely were less likely than those who waited until pension age to have said that they had ever thought seriously about early retirement ( 24 per cent compared with 44 per cent in the age-group 60 and over ) . |
| 42 | As manufacturers of all kinds of stringed instruments , Harmony concentrated on mass production and made relatively cheap instruments ( it 's been said that they sat somewhere between Kay and Gibson ) . |
| 43 | Our customers tend to be left out of these reports , but it must be said that they did part cheerfully with over 13,000 and that we enjoyed meeting them . |
| 44 | But , although Park and the Chicago School recognised these two levels of human behaviour , it should be said that they did still engage in some largely unhelpful metaphors between the social and the natural worlds . |
| 45 | It should be said that anyone looking here for enlightenment about great music will reap scant rewards . |
| 46 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 47 | But because of the advent now of erm organized bonfires , that risk has receded but having said that it has only receded , not gone away . |
| 48 | Gildas had said that he felt too tired to be continually renewing his amazement , he had other troubles . |
| 49 | He would have said that he had as reasonable an acquaintance with sorcery as anyone in Ireland . |
| 50 | It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him . |
| 51 | But it has to be said that he tried more consistently and more self-consciously than most political leaders to insulate himself from external pressures and to personalize decision-making . |
| 52 | It has been said that he gave too much of himself in his idealistic way , and that the ‘ political football ’ aspects of the CBC in eastern Canada , where he was finally transferred , caused a breakdown in health and his early retirement . |
| 53 | How many meetings have we all been to , all of us in all parties , at which the candidate has said that he looks forward to winning ? |
| 54 | Some health professionals even argued that they learnt more from the process than did the ‘ recipient ’ villagers . |
| 55 | It could also be argued that we did so despite any better understanding of the essential problem : how do we establish causal relationships between inputs , low-level outputs and ultimate outputs , reliably ? |
| 56 | It could be argued that it came too late to correct the inequity completely , but at least it was a partial correction . |
| 57 | Section 7(1) could be construed as applying to previous enactments , but it was argued that it applied also to subsequent enactments . |
| 58 | Britain 's position within the international division of labour and its trade balance were examined in Chapter 1 , where it was seen that there have indeed been major shifts over the post-war period . |
| 59 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 60 | I have seen that you care very much for us … . ’ |