Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does property pass when the letter is posted or when it arrives ? |
| 2 | We have to ask whether there was some failure in the mechanism of the quota arrangements , and whether they can be adjusted or whether there needs to be some compensation . |
| 3 | The authors warn visiting foreign scientists that their presence in the USSR will be used by the KGB to show that Sakharov is forgotten or that his exile is at least accepted . |
| 4 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 5 | It will alienate the interviewer if you seem mainly concerned to ensure your holiday will not have to be cancelled or that you will be eligible for the next pay rise . |
| 6 | In accordance with that view , the final conclusion expressed by the Advocate General was that , in the circumstances of the Conforama and Marchandise cases , it could not be concluded that the obstacles created exceeded what was necessary for the attainment of the objective pursued or that they were out of proportion thereto . |
| 7 | ESP felt that a third option should be available — to clean and test the pumps , to see if they needed to be repaired or whether they were still usable . |
| 8 | The project resource sheet is so designed that once you 've allocated the resources , it is now relatively easy to transfer those res resources over to the project plan . |
| 9 | A Character Ballet is one in which classical technique is discarded except where it is used to depict particular and usually fantastic characters as for the dolls in Petrushka and La Boutique Fantasque . |
| 10 | In fact , they were so well drilled that when I went to C Division — Essex Street — you 'd wait on the corner of a back street and there 'd be a crowd of fellers there and within no time , before you could get near them , they 'd all have disappeared . |
| 11 | We were reminded that before he became party leader , Neil Kinnock had said , in relation to Peter Tatchell , ‘ I am not in favour of witch-hunts but I do not mistake bloody witches for fairies . ’ |
| 12 | Teachers are reminded that if they have not already submitted the numbers of all their class registers to the office they must do so at once . |
| 13 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 14 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 15 | Twenty years ago it was expected that if you trained you would surely be accepted into the membership of your trade union and be given the chance to compete for the roles that were suitable . |
| 16 | For example , the first vowel in the following English words is of a different quality when it is stressed than when it is unstressed : convert , progress , transfer . |
| 17 | Carlie also claimed that when she was two months old a baby-sitter had stolen a gold cross from round her neck . |
| 18 | And some people say that 's the best thing that happened to it being voted that cos it meant people had done things about it and sorted it out but you think it 's still dull as |
| 19 | Thus in ( 140 ) below the lighting of a fire is presented as a condition which would have permitted Pops to be found sooner , but the fire could not be conceived as acting on Pops directly itself and " making him be found " : ( 140 ) A fire would n't have mattered except that it would cause Pops to be found sooner . |
| 20 | When I arrived at Wuthering Heights that afternoon , I was shocked to see how much worse the house looked than when I used to live there . |
| 21 | But I am resolved that if it must be so I will obtain permission from the Brownings to have my husband journey to England at the end of the holiday and bring his son back with him . |
| 22 | Matilda later reported that as her father tore off her veil , he swore ‘ that he had destined me as a wife for Count Alan rather than for a community of nuns ’ . |
| 23 | Linked with this latter point , it was also reported that when it came to an evaluation of training courses " higher education providers revealed that their concern was very largely with improving the quality of their courses rather than assessing their effectiveness upon participants ' management practice in school " ( Wallace and Hall 1989:172 ) . |
| 24 | Peter said he thought Lydia White ( Linguistics/McGill , Montreal ) had still not placed her book on universal grammar with a publisher although Tim Blakey has since reported that when he contacted her when he was there last week , she refused to see ‘ yet another publisher ’ . |
| 25 | This is very similar to the way the accounts book was organised except that we do n't know the page number for each name . |
| 26 | ‘ To this it may be objected that although it is necessary to tax in order to wage war , it is not necessary for the Executive to tax without a statute . |
| 27 | It may easily be objected that if he had wished to avoid becoming archbishop he had simply to refuse . |
| 28 | I always objected to the idea that everything is predetermined and that we have no choice . |
| 29 | Numerous demonstrations were held as war approached and after it broke out , the largest protest being on Jan. 12 when 40,000 attended two rallies in Paris . |
| 30 | The [ draft ] FRS therefore requires that the facilities must be committed and that there must be no reasons expected or likely which would either permit the lender to avoid his obligation to provide new borrowings or prevent him from providing them . |