Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ Every Parliamentary answer I have given or letter I despatched has been based on the position I understood it to be . ’ |
| 2 | It can not be too strongly stressed that people who use public parks enjoy seeing the building that was once its raison d'être . |
| 3 | It should not be forgotten that hazards themselves have geographical distributions yet there has been little effort in the UK to develop public domain databases . |
| 4 | It 's been claimed that children whose fathers worked there were genetically damaged by radiation . |
| 5 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 6 | The Doe regime collapsed and Doe himself was killed in September . |
| 7 | Hans Hufnagel and his gunner were both wounded and crash-landed their badly damaged aircraft at Comiso , a second badly damaged Bf110 crash-landing at Trapani , whilst a third returned with minor damage . |
| 8 | Feet were wiped , the steps were brought in , the samovar was stoked and nostrils which had stuck together like prickly gauze snuffled back to life . |
| 9 | Kochen himself mentioned that orders had frozen and users themselves calculated that DEC had lost millions of dollars along with credibility and goodwill . |
| 10 | Before the authorities get too enthusiastic about reports on a fall in illegal drug use by white , middle-class high school seniors , a study conducted at the University of California found that young people who do experiment with drugs are usually better adjusted than kids who abstain from drugs completely . |
| 11 | We have commented that people who contemplate suicide usually feel that life has nothing left to offer , and that they are a burden to themselves and those around them . |
| 12 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 13 | Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House . |
| 14 | Bachelor Phillip said : ‘ Out of all the things I 've done or commendations I 've received , I think this is the one she is most proud of . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Although the loss is temporary , I 've noticed that women who have had many pregnancies seem to wind up with thinner hair , ’ says Kingsley . |
| 16 | Editor , — The General Medical Council has decided that doctors who qualify in the United States and Canada are no longer exempt from the PLAB test . |
| 17 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 18 | Doubtless he paid a price for that , too , in the misery that darkened his later life , but if he had not felt that misery he could never have created the works he did . |
| 19 | Not that I 've ever felt that way myself ’ He abandoned philosophical speculation to enquire : ‘ Ever done any soldiering , Herr Richter ? |
| 20 | I 've always said that money itself is n't important to me — but I 've still got young children and I 'll always have to provide . |
| 21 | Last night England manager Geoff Cooke said he had n't heard about the incident , but confirmed : ‘ We have always said that players who play for England must be aware of the responsibilities that go with that . ’ |
| 22 | It is said that Alexander himself paced out the plan for his Egyptian city before hurrying off to conquer the rest of the world . |
| 23 | This may be why it is said that couples who pray together , stay together . |
| 24 | In all fairness it must of course also be said that people who are familiar with Christian orders of service find this same collection of words extremely comforting and helpful precisely because they are familiar and mean a great deal to them . |
| 25 | Presumably the ability to attract good staff is , in itself , the mark of a good leader , but beyond that it can be said that Reagan himself was an indispensable part of the team . |
| 26 | It could be argued that defendants who might otherwise have been acquitted could be persuaded to plead guilty to lesser offences . |
| 27 | I have argued that speakers who use Creole in conversation usually are able to switch strategically between LE and what , for that speaker , counts as Creole or Patois . |
| 28 | Some Marxist anthropologists have argued that units which do not contain classes are not true states , and of course , in these cases , by definition there can not be classless states . |
| 29 | He has argued that historians who have sought to identify a Latitudinarian party within the church have been chasing a chimera , as the label was merely a vague , derogatory term devised by embittered contemporary Puritans who felt betrayed by the abandonment of predestinarian theology . |
| 30 | Nicola 's husband was after all , thought Dexter , the second suspect they had seen that day who had decided to dry-clean the clothes worn at the farewell party . |