Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 2 | Plugs or outlets too , are often fitted in a haphazard way around the room , with the result that when a lamp is placed where it seems most needed , it frequently has to trail a dangerous mess of flex or wire with it . |
| 3 | You must tell the Department if you become aware that you are suffering from a disease or physical disability not previously disclosed or which has been disclosed but has become more severe . |
| 4 | Although intensive visual concentration can sometimes lead to fatigue it must be stressed that it does not damage vision . |
| 5 | Adoption should never be suggested as the next option after treatment failure , it should be stressed that it involves a different type of parenting to biological parenthood , and adoptive parents should be advised to contact an organisation such as Parent to Parent Information on Adoption or British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering ( BAAF ) for information . |
| 6 | When a manager is given the authority to do something , it is automatically presupposed that he has the ability to do it , the facilities that he needs and that the desired results will be achieved . |
| 7 | As the phonemic contrasts in one 's own language are " built in " , it can be expected that it takes longer to detach oneself from these contrasts than it takes to master the actual pronunciation . |
| 8 | Indeed fluidity — of both form and texture is perhaps the chief characteristic of a type of music so free and richly varied that it defies definition . |
| 9 | A track forgotten that nobody needs . |
| 10 | ‘ My husband has married only once , ’ she told me ‘ but he has forgotten that he has any duties . ’ |
| 11 | The outcome is the same if he has forgotten that he has a knife on him . |
| 12 | Little Gibson , 29 , and so forgotten that he trains alone , was once part of Terry Phelan 's £2.3 million move to Manchester City . |
| 13 | That there was a pattern for her in Lermontov 's novel is conceivable : but it ca n't be claimed that it fits her with exactitude , or that it provides an explanation of her conduct . |
| 14 | The ‘ vehicle ’ is footsteered and some have claimed that it has helped their gybing tremendously . |
| 15 | Staff at the Commission have claimed that it has insufficient funds to do this . |
| 16 | It is also claimed that there has been a great deal of harassment of Serbs and Montenegrins by Albanian nationalists , who hope to drive them out and establish an ‘ ethnically pure ’ Kosovo . |
| 17 | As we have heard , it has been claimed that there has been widespread hardship among students this summer . |
| 18 | The same interests have dominated his 10 years at Westminster , and it is claimed that he has redistributed more than £60 million from the taxpayer to the poor by challenging the DHSS in test cases . |
| 19 | He might also have added that he plays the game rather well . |
| 20 | In the first legal definition , in the Crofter 's Holdings ( Scotland ) Act of 1886 , it was added that he resides on his holding , the annual rent of which does not exceed £30 in money , and which is situated in a ‘ crofting parish ’ . |
| 21 | If your holiday plan is so tightly organised that it allows for no days off , and no travel delays , it 's time to think again . |
| 22 | It has been given the name " facial vision " , because blind people have reported that it feels a bit like the sense of touch , on the face . |
| 23 | Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ? |
| 24 | Those who suffer from PMS less frequently reported that it has got better with time . |
| 25 | Unsubstantiated reports say Mr Najibullah , 45 , has gone into hiding , but newspapers in Pakistan have reported that he has joined his wife and children , who flew to New Delhi two weeks ago . |
| 26 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 27 | In defending this choice of subject matter Le Roy Ladurie has recently protested that it represents just whatever can be most readily understood in quantitative terms . |
| 28 | If an earn out is to be used , it is recommended that it does not form too significant a part of the purchase price as this will distort priorities . |
| 29 | To this it might be objected that one learns the meaning of ‘ blue ’ through seeing blue things and being told they are blue ; learning the meaning of the word is a matter of attaching a word to the look of something ; the look is basic . |
| 30 | ‘ If the bishop had not exercised his judgment at all , we would have compelled him : but it is objected that he has not exercised it rightly ; to this I answer that we have no authority to say how he should have decided . |