Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 2 | I was took on to be able to keep the written terms and conditions . |
| 3 | The former are considered by the council of ICAO to be necessary to help bring about the regularity and safety of air transport while the latter are considered merely to be desirable . |
| 4 | However , if you are editing in camera , and if your camcorder has a fade-button , it is quite practical to put the fades in as you go if you are organised enough to be able to pick the points at which they should come . |
| 5 | It would be simplistic and indeed inaccurate , however , to ascribe a single ‘ mood ’ to the workforce , although industrial relations are considered generally to be good as memories of last year 's conflict dim . |
| 6 | Probably the only piece of Macintosh software designed not to be WYSIWYG , although a preview version is now available , it allows real typesetting control to be exercised . |
| 7 | Raven Thomson was deemed not to be insulting when he said at Bethnal Green in March 1937 that he had the utmost contempt for the Jews and that they were ‘ the most miserable type of humanity , ’ but an Inspector Jones was overruled when he reported that Mick Clarke had used no inflammatory language at the same venue in June 1937 , when other police shorthand notes stated that Clarke had called the Jews ‘ greasy Scum ’ and ‘ the lice of the earth ’ . |
| 8 | The application of natural justice in the context of discipline suffered , like the case of licensing , from the administrative-judicial distinction ; disciplinary measures were deemed not to be judicial with the correlative inapplicability of natural justice . |
| 9 | This had been the basic premise of a proposal made in late August by the Netherlands ( holder of the presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 1991 ) specifying four conditions for economic convergence : ( i ) a high degree of price stability , indicated by a level of inflation close to that of the best-performing state for a two-year period ; ( ii ) a sustainable government financial position , indicated by budget deficits deemed not to be excessive ; ( iii ) currency within the 2.5 per cent fluctuation margins of the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System for at least two years without devaluation against other member state 's currency ; and ( iv ) a close approximation of comparable interest rates to those member states with the best performance in terms of price stability . |
| 10 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 11 | Supporters of deposed President Zviad Gamsakhurdia were reported still to be active in western Georgia around Zugdidi ( near Abkhazia ) , where there were sporadic attacks and fighting between " Zviadists " and government troops . |
| 12 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 13 | We have it all sorted out to be fair to the weakest person . |
| 14 | They 're designed primarily to be fast and powerful and therefore they 're very polluting and in fact , when you look at the engineering and craftsmenship , it could be much more usefully employed making models more fuel efficient and therefore , less polluting . |
| 15 | In all the provisions there are exception clauses : an obligation can be revoked or modified only with consent ‘ unless it is established they had otherwise agreed ’ ; assent shall be presumed ‘ so long as the contrary is not indicated ’ ; a right may not be revoked or modified ‘ if it is established that the right was intended not to be revocable ’ . |
| 16 | Those unfortunates who were late received two cuts from the weapon — one on each hand and were admonished not to be late again . |
| 17 | COSTUMES do n't have to be a dull black with your swimming badges sewn on to be fast through the water , as Vicki Walberg showed in London yesterday . |
| 18 | He takes over from Alloa-based Derek Allison who has moved on to be British national coach . |
| 19 | But we have seen enough to be able to frame a clear answer to the question formulated at the outset of this chapter . |
| 20 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 21 | Most of all , The Lord of the Rings is felt not to be true to ‘ the fundamental character of reality ’ , not to mirror ‘ an adult experience of the world ’ , not to portray ‘ an emotional truth about humanity ’ . |
| 22 | Once it was felt not to be reliable as evidence for Jesus ' own history and teaching , however , most of what the psychological biographies had chiefly depended upon was removed along with it . |
| 23 | On the other hand , SSAP 12 ( which is directly concerned with depreciation ) is said not to be relevant to local authorities . |
| 24 | He was taken to Airedale General Hospital , Keighley , where his condition was said not to be serious . |
| 25 | They are explicitly said not to be fearful . |
| 26 | Dick Turpin used the moor , but was said not to be fond of it , possibly because of the competition . |
| 27 | But once the difference between one 's body qua sensitive and one 's body qua sensible , is realised , it is seen not to be relevant . |
| 28 | This last total is seen not to be correct . |
| 29 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
| 30 | She did n't want anyone to talk to her so she could be seen not to be alone . |