Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [noun pl] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after it is decided that company collection agencies are unsuitable for the job should outside agencies be contracted to fill in the gaps . |
| 2 | It is a story in which the case of Primo Levi , that of a dissident , gifted , magical , mustardly Jew , might at moments be thought to be implicated . |
| 3 | Although the land tax assessment could at times be stretched to include houses , windows , servants , hair powder , non-working horses , carriages and playing cards , and although in times of war the 10 per cent peacetime limit was pushed twice as far , there was no fundamental revaluation and in many parts of the country assessment levels were nominal . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Very difficult matters may on occasions be referred to the full Panel without a ruling first from the executive . |
| 5 | In other words , structures like that shown in 5.3(a) may on occasions be felt by speakers to be ‘ correct ’ . |
| 6 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 7 | Although these sorts of depreciatory arrangements can not be used to create allowable losses in the hands of the vendor company ( s 176 TCGA ) , they can within limits be used to reduce the vendor 's chargeable gain without the vendor 's having to realise the assets and business which may have a very low historical value . |
| 8 | Two such distinct behaviours can at times be observed , either by the participant himself or by an outside observer . |