Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a greater emphasis on the concept of spending needs which had to be costed out and in some cases justified and even evaluated . |
| 2 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 3 | Was pocket money earned or just given ? |
| 4 | However , the controversy obscured the clear military fact that Operation ‘ Apache Snow ’ was not intended to hold territory , but rather to keep the NVA occupied and thereby prevent it moving into the coastal provinces . |
| 5 | Realising that he was not only wasting his time until the storm abated but also endangering his life , George turned in what he hoped was the right direction for home . |
| 6 | ‘ We decided that the only course was to run away to marry at Gretna Green , because her guardian , as soon as he knew of my interest , first tried to get my apprenticeship broken and then announced that his son would marry Catherine on the day of her twenty-first birthday — two weeks from now . |
| 7 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 8 | This would reduce the number of authors listed while still providing unambiguous access to the publication , acknowledgment of the primary researcher , and identification of the department or laboratory ( usually that of the last author ) . |
| 9 | In some cases , the proliferation surrounded and sometimes invaded reactive B cell follicles . |
| 10 | For some time there have been rumours that the urbs have been solving the problem by having their foxes caught and surreptitiously turned loose in remote rural areas . |
| 11 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 12 | The relay satellites , each of which can relay 300 million bits of information , or about five million words , per second , were needed to handle the massive flow of data collected and immediately beamed down by Spacelab 's instruments . |
| 13 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped and usually separated but proximal ones may be contiguous . |
| 14 | In response , Adenauer and Strauss not only had the magazine 's offices searched but also arrested its editor . |
| 15 | Harry stayed with her until her eyes closed and then went to see if there was any way he could offer some comfort to the grief-stricken man downstairs . |
| 16 | This duty might vary according to the nature of the contract of employment but would be broken if the employee copied or deliberately memorized a list of customers . |
| 17 | In broad terms it may be stated as being whether an original tenant under a lease containing a rent review clause is bound by privity of contract to pay the landlord for the time being of the premises a rent agreed or otherwise determined with a subsequent assignee of the term . |
| 18 | Is clinical practice supervised and formally assessed before course completion ? |
| 19 | I also make the rule that , before a person has had a turn , they sit with their legs crossed and afterwards place them out in front . |
| 20 | The numerically dominant stratum of unskilled labour encompassed and eventually unified two distinct traditions which were related to the origins of their members , namely , rural labour from the depressed eastern counties and the casual poor from East London . |
| 21 | In that way it would increase the number of such clients supported and thus become an even more cost-effective service . |
| 22 | When he led her away down the back steps the Tibetan followed and so did most of the crowd . |
| 23 | A quick laborious glance left and right confirms the scarlet tip-tanks equidistant below the horizon . |
| 24 | It would be desirable , therefore , to confine the conclusions to the crime investigated and generally avoid comments about competence and probity . |
| 25 | SFA guidance recommends that such calls be tape recorded and regularly monitored . |
| 26 | However , the inspectors ignored and even scorned the self-evaluation , seeing only their inspection as important . |
| 27 | Wishing she 'd kept her mouth shut and never mentioned her need of some new clothes , Laura found herself being dragged , willy-nilly , towards the lifts . |
| 28 | Among many hundreds of aircraft destroyed or severely damaged as Hurricane Andrew swept across southern Florida in August were those housed in the Weeks Air Museum at Tamiami Airport , which was itself totally destroyed . |
| 29 | Each pair of eyes questioned and then looked away , wondering . |
| 30 | The experiment in which people inflicted electric shocks on subjects who were actually actors is known to all psychology students , and even journalology has an important study that depended on deception : editors had papers that they had already published resubmitted to them with the titles and addresses changed and then rejected most of them — providing evidence , the researchers argued , that editors and referees were biased against authors from provincial universities . |