Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some argue that these effects may be weak or delayed because domestic activity is so weak . |
| 2 | In truth , the Beirut front line could not be repaired , restructured , rebuilt or re-roofed because it had become necessary to the Lebanese . |
| 3 | At work , he had been used and abused repeatedly , each time becoming so anxiety-ridden and exhausted that he had handed in his notice . |
| 4 | She blew the ashes clear and spat as the dust went into her mouth . |
| 5 | The panic was absorbed by his warmth , the hard resilient muscles of his body , absorbed and drawn and sucked out of her . |
| 6 | Beneath a cocked hat somewhat too big for him his small face , pale despite the sun of a whole Mediterranean summer , was much more calm and composed than that of the man behind him . |
| 7 | The CITES regulations state that ‘ Management Authorities of the Parties shall be satisfied that any living specimen will be so prepared and shipped as to minimise the risk of injury , damage to health or cruel treatment ’ . |
| 8 | Her coat , old and worn but once good , was also black . |
| 9 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 10 | All the sixteen-man crew were as trained and tested as astronauts . |
| 11 | And sadly the first time he flew without me he perished , leaving Bob Pointer and myself wondering why events in our puny lives are so ordained and arranged as to inflict the maximum hurt at a time like that . |
| 12 | Are racial double standards ( viz. , good/bad natives ) and double binds ( damned if you are different and damned if you are like the master race ) a function of this contradictory or dual relation to the Other ? |
| 13 | My feet were sometimes so painful and swollen that I could only walk with my heels out of my shoes . |
| 14 | It is not clear whether paired or single nasal sacs and nostrils are primitive for craniates . |
| 15 | She was evasive when asked if she still felt like killing herself . |
| 16 | She was only 21 years old when killed and had been extraordinarily dedicated to our cause . |
| 17 | The ice not so much broken as dynamited and blown out of the water , they were both giggling like kids out of school . |
| 18 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices . |
| 19 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 20 | Orientation toward the political system may be classified as allegiant when attitudes , feelings , and evaluations are favorable to the political system ; apathetic or detached when feelings and evaluations are neutral ; and alienated when such feelings and evaluations are unfavorable . |
| 21 | The legislation mandates that imported or factory-made goods be identified as such and required that any objects offered for sale as ‘ Indian ’ must be accompanied by proof that their maker or makers are of Indian ancestry , i.e. , members of a federally recognized tribe . |
| 22 | Nothing would rouse him , and he continued in that state for some days , then grew violent if touched or spoken to . |
| 23 | Dried flowers and potpourri are irresistible to small hands but could prove dangerous if sucked or swallowed , so our advice would be to move them out of harm 's way or to do without . |
| 24 | Most villagers were encumbered with the huge broods of the day and it was as much as worn parents could do to keep them warm and fed But John 's parents had time to give . |
| 25 | Has it ever occurred to you that I was wedded and bedded and well pregnant by the time I was your age ? |
| 26 | In the case of working class women , Anna Martin , a suffragist , observed that mothers were being ‘ ordered by the law to perform the impossible and punished if they fail ’ . |
| 27 | Uneven and limited though this might have been , the gulf between Disraeli 's two nations in the early and mid-nineteenth century became blurred and attenuated by the twentieth . |
| 28 | Miss Hazelwood stepped up from behind her desk , slender and poised and gripping the tawse . |
| 29 | Two or more stage alarm procedures may have to be considered where adjacent risks occur , so that the area primarily at risk is alarmed and evacuated while the adjacent areas are warned for a stand-by situation . |
| 30 | Monks hesitated and looked at the old man , but Mr Brownlow 's expression was so serious and determined that the younger man realized it was pointless to protest . |