Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexander could see no point at all in doing this and flatly refused . |
| 2 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 3 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 4 | The Shah resented this and subsequently noted that during Kennedys presidency there was " increased US intrigue against our country . " |
| 5 | I remembered the queer mixture of fear and belief with which I had read this and afterwards written it down . |
| 6 | Are the membership aware of this and actively committed to the goals of the alliance ? |
| 7 | You could be right , for many people have drifted from one job to another and finally ended up in public relations . |
| 8 | We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road . |
| 9 | The pier is small , the cottages few and tidily arranged , the little beaches a delight for pebble collectors , the bay a narrow inlet of Loch Torridon landlocked on three sides by gaunt grey hills , and only the cry of seabirds disturbs the silence . |
| 10 | Studies from the community are few and predominantly based on single practices . |
| 11 | Passage controls were few and well spaced out , so most crews reached Dover with a fairly uneventful run . |
| 12 | Portholes were few and usually hatched over with leering daemon masks . |
| 13 | Compromises with his few but firmly held prejudices were only made when to hold out meant risking something irreplaceable . |
| 14 | Of importance at this stage is whether the technique merits wider and detailed comparative trials or is to good that such trials are not justified on ethical considerations or is so good that patient pressure is such that carefully controlled trials can not be mounted ( phase III ) . |
| 15 | Here , in the Bois d'Avocourt , was a dangerous re-entrant in the French lines , but recognised as such and heavily fortified . |
| 16 | I learned so much and soon caught up with the fleet ’ . |
| 17 | I knew I would eat too much and mentally planned to restrict myself at lunch , which would be equally difficult . |
| 18 | The COB Rules generally regulate not investment business as such but only regulated business ( see page 22 above ) . |
| 19 | If , if as I understand it , it 's a matter of law , and the practice will be much as just suggested , is that a correct er , interpretation . |
| 20 | Well it 's like Richard said I think The Mercury probably tried that and then gone with this naff tale about the house . |
| 21 | Ramprakash was fined the maximum two weeks wages — around £750 — for that and severely warned about his future conduct . |
| 22 | Fourteen per cent had only an occupational or state pension , while 16 per cent had one or other of these and also received income support . |
| 23 | The opportunities for bureaucrats in the UK to subvert or negate the wishes of elected officials are far fewer and more limited in scope than is the case in the diffused , more open and non-hierarchical structures of the federal administration in the United States . |
| 24 | Although attempts were made to streamline the structure and to have fewer and better organized meetings , the position has scarcely improved . |
| 25 | imagine that but just done in complete black with white lines , yeah , like sort of like if with white lines going down |
| 26 | An experienced German translator will normally replace all or most predicated and identifying themes with less marked German structures . |
| 27 | Old Norman Hunter sounded like he was bored of it all and just kept saying ‘ looking at it , you just ca n't see where a goals gon na come from ’ . |
| 28 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 29 | The various provinces of Russia were too many and too mixed to allow of any division into two or a few camps , irrespective of whether socio-economic conditions , nationality , religion , or politics are concerned . |
| 30 | In a recent case , Bridger Properties Ltd v Dovey Holdings ( South Wales ) Ltd ( 1991 ) unreported , Chancery Division , 25 June : discussed at 7.4.4 ) the court did not consider the guidelines at all but simply observed that nothing could be more " uncommercial " than to make the date for completion of a contract for sale and purchase of land turn upon the determination of an arbitrator . |