Example sentences of "[vb pp] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beginnings examined are interestingly compared with those featuring in films , whereas the exploration of middles and ends includes a study on theme patterning in " popstyling " , characterisation as it emerges from fictional discourse , and a functional typology of dialogue ( which is interesting , but unfortunately inadequately substantiated in terms of textual evidence ) in " actionbooks " . |
| 2 | The goods received are also posted to the individual stock record cards from the invoice which will show the prices ( Fig. 6.17 ) . |
| 3 | When the Equal Opportunities Commission , in its equality agenda , describes child care facilities as meagre in the extreme compared with the facilities that are available in the rest of Europe , when we know that the women in work to whom the Minister has referred are often forced into part-time work because of inadequate child care arrangements and when we bear in mind his entirely complacent answer , is not it a good thing that a Labour Government are coming who will ensure that child care provision is expanded ? |
| 4 | In mammals , about 50% of the carbohydrates consumed are normally oxidised to carbon dioxide and water to produce energy and about 30 to 40% are converted to fat . |
| 5 | In those languages that unequivocably exhibit it , tense is one of the main factors ensuring that nearly all sentences when uttered are deictically anchored to a context of utterance . |
| 6 | What 's more all the holiday parks listed are regularly checked and graded by tourist board inspectors . |
| 7 | All hotels and guesthouses listed are regularly inspected to ensure they comply fully with the standards . |
| 8 | I accept this evidence , and it follows that there is no arguable case that the moneys sought to be traced are now situated in England . |
| 9 | When a prison officer requests a gun the reasons given are closely scrutinised , ’ he said . |
| 10 | If the last two clauses heard are syntactically related to one another then sufficient syntactic information about the penultimate clause needs to be retained in order for the larger linguistic unit they form to be understood . |
| 11 | Discussions about the number of houses in rural areas , their size and density , how many should be publicly or privately owned , owner-occupied or rented , where they should be sited and how they should be designed are often presented as purely technical exercises . |
| 12 | One might say : ‘ Things formerly forbidden are now allowed ’ . |
| 13 | In essence , he argues , certain forms of conduct which were once forbidden are now allowed , and are regulated much less formally than they once were . |
| 14 | Many things previously forbidden are now allowed . |
| 15 | Wouters turns Caxton 's famous quotation on its head and says ‘ things formerly forbidden are now allowed ’ , but not only does he not go into detail as to what these things might be , he certainly does not suggest that ‘ things now allowed are actively engaged in ’ . |
| 16 | The exclusion of particular duties and liabilities requires the drafter to understand the nature and effect of the duties to be excluded , and the ways in which individual duties can be modified are therefore considered alongside the duties themselves , below . |
| 17 | I think erm there is a erm a size issue that enters into that particular consideration , erm clearly erm if you build a small new settlement very close to an existing large settlement , then the prospects for that being reasonably self contained are much reduced to that of a larger new settlement in the same location , and I would agree that the further in in general the further you move away from an existing centre then the likelihood is that that settlement will become more self contained . |
| 18 | Also considered are purely surface syntactic constraints , as in 54 ; it is noted that ‘ indefinite tu or vous can not be used in contexts where there is a definite ‘ you ’ immediately to the left , for fear of confusion with the latter ’ ( p. 289 ) : |
| 19 | The processes by which light energy is thus harnessed are collectively called photosynthesis . |
| 20 | Three measures not previously reported were also collected . |
| 21 | Married women whose husbands were incapacitated were also treated sympathetically . |
| 22 | But those to be educated were still divided into the sheep and the goats , the most goatish of all doing no examinations before they left school , the best of the sheep doing examinations in none but theoretical or language-based subjects . |
| 23 | Those polled were then asked to rank firms in their industry ( except , for businessmen , their own company ) by eight criteria : quality of management ; financial soundness ; quality of products and services ; ability to attract , develop and retain top talent ; value as a long-term investment ; capacity to innovate ; quality of marketing ; and community and environmental responsibility . |
| 24 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 25 | What exercises were included were usually written , and were often the type requiring translation of sentences from one language to the other . |
| 26 | What was most disastrous about the educated response to American and British cinema was the way in which good movies or movies that had impressed were conveniently forgotten . |
| 27 | The circumstances in which freedom might be won were clearly defined , and Alexei knew that he had sometimes thought that the lowest class in the Empire — the proles , who worked for pay — were no less enslaved and had perhaps fewer rights . |
| 28 | The specific question that Aspect , together with jean Dalibard and Gérard Roger , has attacked is commonly known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox , the essence of which runs as follows . |
| 29 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 30 | The interest earned is normally paid at the end of the period to the respective parties in proportion to the amount of the retention received by them . |