Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have finished with the artwork , it can be stored in a stiff envelope or a file , along with the component layout diagram , so that it can be modified or re-used at a later date . |
| 2 | In the Police and Criminal Evidence Act , the old idea of voluntariness , with its preoccupation with the mental state of the suspect , was dropped and replaced by a broader rule . |
| 3 | This romantic view of the Germanic commune had an unconscious effect on Marx and led him to follow those German historians who were trying to reconstruct an old system which they say as smothered by a newer one . |
| 4 | In this world pop music is isolated and exploited as a younger , sexier version of traditional showbiz , where culture tycoons like Maxwell of the Mirror or Murdoch of the Sun fight for the services of a man , John Blake , whose gossip columns reinforce pop music 's most banal surfaces . |
| 5 | When we have given , or been given , a seemingly adequate theoretical account of our processes , then that account may itself need to be understood and analysed in a further , meta-theoretical discourse , and so on . |
| 6 | So while changing herself , the Family Development Nurse has to facilitate this change at community level in order that the expertise and knowledge of parents can be recognised and used in a wider context in the community and in equal partnership with the professional . |
| 7 | It exposes on a minuscule scale a widely misunderstood but tiresome fact which Australia , Canada and other nations spawned by Britain have learned and taught on a larger scale . |
| 8 | The flexibility of hydrogels means that the lenses can be folded and inserted through a smaller incision than conventional ‘ hard ’ lens , or even inserted while dehydrated and allowed to hydrate in the eye . |
| 9 | He has respect for the almost tribal traditional wisdom of those whom he later called the ‘ quiet-voiced elders ’ and their ‘ dead secrets , , but in the end these are to be renounced or incorporated in a higher Christian scheme and vision . |
| 10 | This great tower loomed over Rome — as indeed it still does although halved by a later earthquake — dominating the Capitol , the Colosseum , the Quirinal and the route from the Lateran to St Peter 's , and was described by one chronicler as touching the clouds . |
| 11 | Crisis welcomes all donations , but non-perishable items are preferred , as they can be kept and used at a later date . |
| 12 | The pilot scheme will involve shops in five selected villages for the first year , and if successful will be extended and developed for a further three years . |
| 13 | Though our screening method is semiquantitative , the seven unconfirmed cases did have creatine kinase values lower than those which were subsequently confirmed as increased on a later venous sample . |
| 14 | What had appeared as almost revolutionary in terms of content in films made between 1928 and 1932 would now be controlled and integrated into a smoother package . |