Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A g-g transition may be forbidden if considered as a purely electronic process , but it may become allowed if it is coupled to a vibrational process of u symmetry — if , for instance , a u vibrational mode is excited in the upper state . |
| 2 | Highly sensitive species such as some of the smaller angelfish , butterflyfish and the Achilles Tang ( Acanthurus achilles ) may easily become stressed if confronted with quarrelsome tank mates and will show dissatisfaction with aquarium life by refusing to feed . |
| 3 | However , publication of records by the press would be only be permitted if authorized by the commission which had been set up to administer the files . |
| 4 | Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , Scotland 's Lord Advocate , said he would have resigned if exposed to political pressure , and Assistant Attorney-General Bob Mueller insisted that no one had even tried to influence the investigation . |
| 5 | SDF participation in peacekeeping operations which might require military action was frozen until authorized by separate legislation . |
| 6 | ‘ … one who deals with goods at the request of the person who has the actual custody of them , in the bona fide belief that the custodian is the true owner , should be excused for what he does if the act is of such a nature as would be excused if done by the authority of the person in possession , if he was a finder of the goods or entrusted with their custody … . |
| 7 | Rather ignominiously , it was used as part payment of a bad debt to a coachbuilder , Robert Jeffrey of Grays Inn Road , with whom it remained neglected and almost forgotten until purchased by Madame Tussaud in 1842 for the princely sum of £52 . |
| 8 | As well as the normal forms of engagement letter the following should also be considered if acting as a lead adviser : |
| 9 | Since the question is — or is made to be — one of his clinical judgment , his view will later be respected unless shown to be wholly unreasonable . |
| 10 | It was decreed that no new relics were to be venerated unless approved by the pope and the sale of relics was forbidden . |
| 11 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 12 | We went to the concert by bus , and Bob was left in New York ( he had collapsed while jogging in Central Park ) and came along later in the day . |
| 13 | Kucan 's victory in the presidential election reflected the great personal popularity he had earned while serving as president of the Slovene League of Communists in 1986-89 for his defence of Slovenia 's political reform process in the face of fierce opposition by the hardline leadership in Serbia . |
| 14 | She was transferred from Mostar Belgrade , dumped in a childrens ' home separated from her family for four months , then shelled while escaping to safety in Croatia . |
| 15 | She was transferred from Mostar Belgrade , dumped in a childrens ' home separated from her family for four months , then shelled while escaping to safety in Croatia . |
| 16 | Under this guise it probes the ‘ labyrinths and inward turns of the mind ’ in abuse of power in human relationships , especially that of mistress to servants or ‘ humble companion ’ , with acute psychological insight , no doubt won while living as a dependant . |
| 17 | The smugglers have gone , the last major encounter being in 1831 , when six coastguards armed with muskets surprised about forty smugglers at Whitsands , only one of whom was caught while heading for Sheviock . |
| 18 | Anthony Waugh sawed his way through his neighbour 's stair bannister in Londonderry Road , Stockton , to release Sarah Walters , three , who had got herself trapped while playing on the steps . |
| 19 | Firemen from Grangetown cut through a wooden shaft linking a metal grass roller and its handle to free the leg of a ten-year-old boy who got trapped while playing in Smith 's Dock Park , Normanby . |
| 20 | The special project teacher , who had her car burned out in January , had a window smashed while canvassing in East Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | The special project teacher , who had her car burned out in January , had a window smashed while canvassing in East Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | The consumers ' hints and suggestions , communicated over considerable distance and thereby often greatly distorted when realized by the manufacturers , resulted in changes in the cloth , which in turn prompted further comments . |
| 23 | The form of input is so basic that almost any application can be encoded as input to a network . |
| 24 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 25 | Emma-Hoo is depicted as riding on a water-buffalo and parading past lines of men to pass judgement upon them , reflecting their sentence back to them by means of a giant bronze mirror on his breast . |
| 26 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 27 | IMI is depicted as lying below the efficient frontier EMF as the investor is engaged in the construction of a series of sub-optimal portfolios by the definition of the efficient frontier itself . |
| 28 | The orang-utan , gorilla , and chimpanzee are usually depicted as arising from a stock separate from that leading to man . |
| 29 | In some representations , in the Book of the Dead , the phoenix is depicted as arising from him . |
| 30 | A large hotel or restaurant kitchen , preparing meals of the highest international standard , is traditionally organised as shown in Fig. 1.9 . |