Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [subord] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faith is better caught than taught and the example of a parent is a strong influence even while teenagers seem to be rejecting what you taught them . |
| 2 | The Tutworker could have a reasonable income which was more or less guaranteed ; the Tributer was more in a position of winning or losing ; the Day Workers , with the lowest wages , were only hired as required but even so were better off than the local farm labourer ; bearing in mind that the mine was not a particularly unhealthy one . |
| 3 | And sports chiefs were examining claims that the disgraced strongmen were wrongly branded as cheats because of an incredible mix-up over the RULES . |
| 4 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 5 | Customs ' enquiry time is not included when calculating whether the repayment is delayed by more than 30 days . |
| 6 | ‘ I have not decided whether to appeal because I have not yet officially been informed as to why I have been fined ’ he said . |
| 7 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
| 8 | This statement was generally interpreted as meaning that only military action could save the Yugoslav federation . |
| 9 | Your friends Dick and Joy Hardy had already called as arranged and had got no reply . |
| 10 | The question is , of course , more easily asked than answered and finding a research methodology which would be valid and practical was the first of Petch 's problems . |
| 11 | The stags ' antlers are cast each year and are best left where found as they are nibbled and eaten to recycle the chemicals and nutrients needed for growing the next set , which is probably more useful than lying in the loft at home or being turned into a table lamp . |
| 12 | This procedure , which was known as silencing , was referred to in a case in 1741 , Hughes v. Science ( 1741 ) 2 Atk. 173 , and was not finally repealed as spent or unnecessary till 1948 : Statute Law Revision Act 1948 , section 1 , Schedule 1 . |
| 13 | What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved . |
| 14 | His statement was widely interpreted as confirming that his government was moving toward relaxation of its ban on rice imports . |
| 15 | A similar result was avoided in The Lisboa where the clause was so widely drawn as to suggest that even proceedings for execution of the award were prohibited ; as such an interpretation would lead to the clause being null and void by virtue of section 8 of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1924 , the Court of Appeal adopted a more limited interpretation under which proceeds for execution or to obtain security , including security by means of a Mareva injunction , were allowed . |
| 16 | A second would be to ensure corrugated iron covers on doors and windows are better secured and quickly repaired if removed or damaged . |
| 17 | However , Mill is usually understood as holding that there may be two pleasures of which the less pleasant is the better in virtue of its higher quality , and that it is then morally more important to promote it than the other . |
| 18 | Officially , 550 species have been formally identified as endangered but an additional 3,600 threatened species have not been listed despite evidence that they required protection . |
| 19 | In addition to its function as a crucial teaching and learning method , talk is now widely recognised as promoting and embodying a range of skills and competence — both transactional and social — that are central to children 's overall language development . |
| 20 | The NCC 's regional officer , Dr Martin George , was also reported as saying that 95 per cent of the Broads were affected by nitrate and phosphate pollution from fertilisers and sewage . |
| 21 | Sihanouk was also reported as saying that if he were made chair of the Cambodia Supreme National Council ( SNC ) he would allow Hun Sen , the SOC Prime Minister , to become vice-chair . |
| 22 | ie. Whether DCs referencing the module are to be automatically assessed as agreed or not on behalf of the module manager . |
| 23 | The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , Norman Lamont , was also quoted as saying that he did not believe that the present position of the dollar had rendered it " uncompetitive . " |
| 24 | A spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry was later quoted as reaffirming that the disputed islands belonged to Iran , and as referring to the GCC 's use of " inappropriate words " . |
| 25 | The Katsina police commissioner was later quoted as saying that there had been no deaths , contrary to media reports . |
| 26 | Answers given by the forty women in the sample to questions about work tasks suggest that certain characteristics of housework may be more or less uniformly experienced as dissatisfying while others are potentially rewarding . |
| 27 | This proposal has become known as " Saint-Venant 's principle " , often interpreted as implying that local eccentricities of stress are not felt in distances greater than the largest linear dimension of the area over which the forces are distributed . |
| 28 | Vic had n't decided whether to dub or not . |
| 29 | This evidence is frequently interpreted as suggesting that larger local authorities are likely to be more efficient than smaller ones , but no statistical evidence has been produced to support this claim . |
| 30 | The flexibility of hydrogels means that the lenses can be folded and inserted through a smaller incision than conventional ‘ hard ’ lens , or even inserted while dehydrated and allowed to hydrate in the eye . |