Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 2 | A dividend is usually paid as a percentage of the consolidated profits of Newco , but a number of points require consideration in determining how " profit " should be interpreted : ( i ) should the dividend be based on pre- or post-tax profits ( ii ) should the calculation of profit take into account any transfer or proposed transfer to reserves or to general provisions ? ( iii ) should profit include pre- or post-extraordinary items ? ( iv ) how should goodwill be treated ? ( v ) should directors ' emoluments in excess of an amount agreed with the investors be added back ? ( vi ) should profit be defined before payment or the provision for payment of dividends ? |
| 3 | lapillus can withstand being frozen into sea ice , but a number of other gastropods are able to survive this experience , and may be transported considerable distances in ice flows ( Medcof and Thomas , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd be on a hiding to nothing , ’ said Joe , ‘ and that would probably include being shot at dawn . |
| 5 | Such life that does survive is warped from contact with the pools and flows of dark magical energy left over from the war . |
| 6 | " Crist see well she shuld haue be dampned for synne " so he appeared to her in her sleep , wounded as in his Passion , and told her to put her hand into his side and even to feel his internal organs and heart , commenting that if he is thus open with her , why is she so ashamed to reveal to him the secrets of her heart ? |
| 7 | … women who do appear being shown by way of a narrow range of images ; mother sufferer helper provider of food . |
| 8 | All slimming diets which can possibly work are based on calorie reduction , but it is easy to see why people become confused about this . |
| 9 | Could better use be made of health board professionals for meeting school staff development needs ? |
| 10 | Well , I think the children do n't like being taken into care , for the most part . |
| 11 | But the employment open to children and the age and the hours they could work were curtailed by legislation throughout the nineteenth century , beginning with the 1833 Factory Act . |
| 12 | I can remember being taken into care when I was three . |
| 13 | Several hands had hoisted her up , and she could remember being carried at shoulder height , giggling and swaying — and then ? |
| 14 | For example , the hospital treatments that GPs can purchase were limited to standard relatively inexpensive procedures which the GP could easily diagnose and cost ; the costs a practice would bear for any one patient were limited to a maximum of £5,000 ( after this the DHA picks up the bill ) , and finally entry to the scheme was limited to large , well-managed practices . |
| 15 | The elections to the Convention were the least contentious of any of the general elections held under the later Stuarts : few of the contests which did occur were fought along party lines , and a number of constituencies returned one Whig and one Tory unopposed . |
| 16 | They do n't mind being shaded for part of the day . |
| 17 | Here oak is useful , because it does n't mind being soaked in water all winter , although it will probably split as it dries out in summer . |
| 18 | BELVILLE : In my own little chapel , which you may see was put in order on purpose . |
| 19 | Should the harmonizing measure be confined to business transaction or should it embrace consumer transactions as well ? |
| 20 | If the above arguments possess cogency , how can control be achieved without review becoming like appeal and without allowing the tribunal to have unlimited power ? |
| 21 | ‘ Revelation must be judged by reason ’ ; in this way one could avoid being misled by Fancy ( a rather disorganized mental activity ) into the dangers of ‘ Enthusiasm ’ ( uncritical belief in a religious or political doctrine ) . |
| 22 | Yet personal allowances should have been raised in line with last December 's inflation rate of 2.6 per cent , allowing taxpayers to earn at least an extra £90 a year before tax . |
| 23 | The wadi would rarely have been filled with water , but deep down , the soil was moist , and trees were able to drink from its reserve . |
| 24 | At one time , the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw . |
| 25 | McQueen found the ruins , and then claimed to trace the road along which the goddess 's statue would have been borne in procession from the temple to the river for the ceremonial washing attributed to worship of Anaitis . |
| 26 | Package or turnkey software should have been proven in use , ideally for at least a year . |
| 27 | And he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by muse . |
| 28 | If the term disorganized capitalism is useful in describing a new set of relations , then some of these relations have changed at a level which might traditionally have been assigned to superstructure — at the levels of ideology or civil society , although these terms will require subsequent careful discussion . |
| 29 | The octopus may have been speared by torchlight at night , just as it is today . |
| 30 | The utility that would have been obtained with certainty prior to the union setting its monopoly wage rate must now be modified to take into account the uncertainty that is introduced with the unemployment probability . |