Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was taught through watching and working the exhibits , and through a workshop on animation in one of the centre 's classrooms , while the course was also linked to art gallery visits in Paris . |
| 2 | Morgenthau has long been criticized for ignoring or underplaying economic factors . |
| 3 | For example , a car was stopped for speeding or ‘ flying low ’ , and upon returning to the police vehicle the constable related the following considerations which influenced his assessment : |
| 4 | I was stopped for speeding when I was 15 miles over the limit . |
| 5 | Gemmill had a 21st minute goal disallowed for pushing and two minutes later , Icelandic star Toddy Orlygsson headed wide when Woan 's delicate chip left the goal at his mercy . |
| 6 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 7 | I left the aircraft in order to go for de-briefing but I got as far only as the jetty when an attack was made on the Sunderland by three Me109 aircraft . |
| 8 | Allowing for running and folding time , proof correction , author 's corrections , design and scripting , it soon becomes clear that by early-May you must be sitting down to plan the details of those leaflets — no later . |
| 9 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
| 10 | The NTSB says such lines can become sensitised and susceptible to corrosion when subjected to high temperatures , possibly during the brazing process used during assembly , and warns : ‘ Without adequate fuel line support , vibratory loads can induce fatigue cracking even on a line with no damage or defect … fuel lines on all fuel-injected engines manufactured by Lycoming should be examined for cracking and supported by clamps . ’ |
| 11 | The reason that has been given for saying that Halley 's attempt was serious , rather than merely placatory , is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not , after all , produced decisive results . |
| 12 | But one might be forgiven for doubting if this is the most likely cause of the toxic side-effects of direct drilling ! |
| 13 | With Maisie still keeping the regulation distance between the two of them , he almost ran after the headmaster , swinging his arms crazily and taking strides so long that a casual observer might have been forgiven for assuming that he , too , was practising the art of Islamic dancing . |
| 14 | Since the death rate after upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage from all causes rises sharply in the elderly one might be forgiven for assuming that this section of the population has such an appalling outlook that variceal haemorrhage should be most humanely ‘ treated with limited transfusion and sedation . ’ |
| 15 | Anyone viewing all this nonsense from another planet — as most men do — can be forgiven for assuming that women are a bunch of mixed up crazies who do n't know what they want , but do know that they want it all , both ways and with jam on the top , too . |
| 16 | For readers already familiar with the transmogrification of Sheffield from the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to something altogether more ‘ pragmatic ’ , you could be forgiven for believing that the drama unfolding around the boardroom table was just one more step along this route , with committed socialists playing the stock market with the best of them . |
| 17 | For surely they could be forgiven for believing that a prince 's promise to pay later must be firmer than a pauper 's ? |
| 18 | Yet the commercial farmers can be forgiven for believing that the decision to buy the white farms has been taken for short-term political reasons rather than longer-term ones of efficiency or fairness . |
| 19 | Working as I do for a technically based industry , I hope I may be forgiven for believing that almost anything can be achieved through technology , if we are dear enough about what is needed . |
| 20 | One might have been forgiven for believing that the answer was to be determined by the label adopted by Parliament in creating the body in question . |
| 21 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 22 | The classical system had left so few remaining traces that the vast majority of students of economics could be forgiven for believing that , before Keynes , there was no macroeconomics . |
| 23 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 24 | One might be forgiven for thinking that the bishops ’ letter had something to do with it and that Haughey was intent on constructing an alliance between those heeding the teaching of the hierarchy and the party faithful . |
| 25 | Wander around the centre , and you could be forgiven for thinking that the whole of Leeds was built in Victorian days . |
| 26 | Faldo , who has a feud-ridden history with some members of the AGW , could be forgiven for thinking that this is yet another example of a lack of sympathy with his cause . |
| 27 | You could be forgiven for thinking that a book entitled The Mind of God was a work of theology , but you would be wrong . |
| 28 | Cynical readers might be forgiven for thinking that concentrating on the minutiae of standards is a convenient way of avoiding the subject of how the industry is faring in a depressed market — but they would be wrong . |
| 29 | When you wheel your trolley around the supermarket , you could be forgiven for thinking that our basic foods have n't changed for years . |
| 30 | You 'd be forgiven for thinking that Meany 's camera equipment probably went ‘ crunch ’ on this one . |